Partition Drive is Corrupted!!

fdeaubonne · 04-26-2005, 04:04 PM

I have a Maxtor 5000 DV external 160gb drive which I have partioned in 2 drives ( 1 primary F and 1 logical H). Both partions are NTSF. The logical partition (H Drive) was created 2 months ago using "partition Magic 8.0", I keep all my music in the H partition and backup data in F partition drive. Yesterday the H Drive became unaccessible for no reason. This has been working fine everyday since H was created. I get an error saying : Disk structure is corrupted and unreadable. While the F drive is totally fine and accessible. I tried to run CHKDSK on the corrupted drive and get the following error: " Canno't run CHKDSK, Corrupt master file table.

How can I recover from this error? My computer shows the H drive on the list but empty (o bytes) but shows as full in partition magic drive mapper. I really need to recover the music data, I have no backup. Do I need to use data recovery software or utilities you can recommend? i am a novice at this. It could be that my H drive is full and became corrupted but I have never moved or dropped the maxtor drive.
I would like to send you a graphic of the way I have partioned my drives but dont really know how to insert this here.

I am using a VAIO desktop 1.7ghz CPU
Windows XP Home, SP2 updated
Maxtor Drive is connected via USB 2.0

Please let me know if you need more info and I thank you in advance for your help and advice.

batty_professor · 04-26-2005, 05:51 PM

Your data is probably still intact on the drive, you may just have an issue with the MBR on the drive. You might check your Partition Magic software application for a utility to handle the problem. You might also find the following link useful. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q69013/

fdeaubonne · 04-27-2005, 01:16 PM

Hi thanks for reply nut i could not find any support for a corrupted drive except ofr running CHKDSK on that drive which proved to be unsuccessfull. I get FIle unreadable and corrupted... I could not find specific instructions on the Microsoft link you sent to fix the MBR. Anything specific you can send me? thanks again.

dai · 04-27-2005, 03:24 PM

http://www.ntfs.com/quest14.htm
http://www.ntfs.com/partition-recovery-concepts.htm

04-26-2005, 04:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
fdeaubonne Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 24 OS: win xp home 2002 version Service pack 2	Partition Drive is Corrupted!! I have a Maxtor 5000 DV external 160gb drive which I have partioned in 2 drives ( 1 primary F and 1 logical H). Both partions are NTSF. The logical partition (H Drive) was created 2 months ago using "partition Magic 8.0", I keep all my music in the H partition and backup data in F partition drive. Yesterday the H Drive became unaccessible for no reason. This has been working fine everyday since H was created. I get an error saying : Disk structure is corrupted and unreadable. While the F drive is totally fine and accessible. I tried to run CHKDSK on the corrupted drive and get the following error: " Canno't run CHKDSK, Corrupt master file table. How can I recover from this error? My computer shows the H drive on the list but empty (o bytes) but shows as full in partition magic drive mapper. I really need to recover the music data, I have no backup. Do I need to use data recovery software or utilities you can recommend? i am a novice at this. It could be that my H drive is full and became corrupted but I have never moved or dropped the maxtor drive. I would like to send you a graphic of the way I have partioned my drives but dont really know how to insert this here. I am using a VAIO desktop 1.7ghz CPU Windows XP Home, SP2 updated Maxtor Drive is connected via USB 2.0 Please let me know if you need more info and I thank you in advance for your help and advice.

04-26-2005, 05:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
batty_professor Asst. Manager, Alternative Computing Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Hooterville Il 45 mi. east of St. Louis mo Posts: 2,608 OS: Fedora Core 5 for now	Your data is probably still intact on the drive, you may just have an issue with the MBR on the drive. You might check your Partition Magic software application for a utility to handle the problem. You might also find the following link useful. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q69013/ __________________ It's better to know me and not need me than to need me and not know me. B. While users are never under any obligation, if you feel the urge please feel free to visit our donation page. Every little bit helps. And we thank you for your support. Microsoft free Registered Linux user 397458

04-27-2005, 03:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,539 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	http://www.ntfs.com/quest14.htm http://www.ntfs.com/partition-recovery-concepts.htm __________________

04-27-2005, 01:16 PM	#3 (permalink)
fdeaubonne Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 24 OS: win xp home 2002 version Service pack 2	Hi thanks for reply nut i could not find any support for a corrupted drive except ofr running CHKDSK on that drive which proved to be unsuccessfull. I get FIle unreadable and corrupted... I could not find specific instructions on the Microsoft link you sent to fix the MBR. Anything specific you can send me? thanks again.