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broken drive caused by data recovery software?

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cold-cell

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I accidentally formatted a drive recently and used File Scavenger to get the data back, copying everything it found onto another drive plugged into a dock. After rebooting or hotplugging the drive back into the dock it makes my computer freeze up. On reboots windows xp just hangs after the splash screen. I'm assuming i copied boot sector files or something on to the drive that i shouldn't have. Everything is accessible on the drive when i plug it into my laptop running OS X, but as soon as any windows install sees the disc it either freezes up or bluescreens.

Is there any way to delete the offending files and fix the disc? the only system files i see in OS X is a folder "SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION", none of the \$ type files i saw when first scanning with File Scavenger.
 
Copy off the files you want in another OS and reformat the drive. Sounds like you pooched the filesystem and you're a victim of windows' typical error 'handling'.

You could probably repair it with ntfs4dos or the vista dvd or something similar but its not worth the effort just get your files off and format it.
 
What's an easy usb bootable os i can use for this?

Obviously i can't use the osx install on my laptop, ntfs filesystem on the bad disc makes it read only, and a couple of the files on it are over 2gb so i can't format the destination drive to fat32. Laptop has a tiny ssd to i can't use that as the destination.
 
cold-cell said:
What's an easy usb bootable os i can use for this?
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Puppy Linux is small and includes NTFS-3g support (ie. writable NTFS). Use unetbootin to create a USB boot disk with it. Copy your files onto the local hard drive, reformat the disk to FAT32 or any other filesystem, then stick it back in your Windows box to reformat to NTFS. Finally copy your files back onto it.
 
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