FrozenLava
10-05-2008, 04:37 PM
Alright. I noticed a few days ago that on one of my partitions, windows was reporting it as only having 6gb of free space. So I selected everything in the root of the partition, right click/properties, and there is only 55-60gb of data on a 96gb partition. These numbers aren't really correct (I didn't memorize them) but there was a discrepancy of about 10-15gb of free space I was missing. Today I ran a CHKDSK on the partition, took about 30min, and once windows XP finally loaded up, the Partition was renamed to Local Disk, and windows cannot read it as being formatted, and prompts me to format it if I try to access it.
I loaded up recovery console and tried fixboot e:. It wrote a new boot record but still not being recognized. I've tried loading up chkdsk in the command prompt, with no F parameter. It recognizes the partition as NTFS, and then says "File record segment XX is unreadable." for segments 4-11, and 24-27, and then says "Errors found, cannot continue in read only mode".
Should I just go ahead and run another Full chkdsk and hope for the best, or is there another program I should try that might be better for this situation?
Reason I want this is I have all of my pictures from the past 7 years on there. I have a backup I did at Xmas but I have a couple of trips including my parents trip to mexico and also my 3 months old neice. Thing is once I did the chkdsk I was planning on doing another backup :eek:
Any help or guidance would be appreciated.
I loaded up recovery console and tried fixboot e:. It wrote a new boot record but still not being recognized. I've tried loading up chkdsk in the command prompt, with no F parameter. It recognizes the partition as NTFS, and then says "File record segment XX is unreadable." for segments 4-11, and 24-27, and then says "Errors found, cannot continue in read only mode".
Should I just go ahead and run another Full chkdsk and hope for the best, or is there another program I should try that might be better for this situation?
Reason I want this is I have all of my pictures from the past 7 years on there. I have a backup I did at Xmas but I have a couple of trips including my parents trip to mexico and also my 3 months old neice. Thing is once I did the chkdsk I was planning on doing another backup :eek:
Any help or guidance would be appreciated.