Corrupt File System

[osalcido]

Don't know where to post this so i'll try here

My storage partition on a 2nd drive has corrupted somehow... when I click on it from XP it says 'disk not formatted' and in linux it says 'cannot read superblock'

I am able to read and write too another partition on the same drive, so i doubt its the hd itself causing it

I'm pretty sure the file system is screwed

how can I fix this?

 

[tdg]

If you want the data off the drive, try something like GetDataBack or other utility that doesn't rely on the partition table. After thats done I'd suggest running diagnostics on the drive and machine and figuring out why it corrupted in the first place, something is wrong somewhere.

 

[XOR != OR]

Reformat the paritition, restore from backup.

You do have backups, right? Right?

 

[FadedSpark]

this may be a little useless but...

i had the same problem last night (kinda) and converting it from logical, to primary partition worked... got my data back

 

[osalcido]

in XP computer management the partition is already marked as primary

maybe if I change it to logical?

Is it possible to do this from computer management?

 

[osalcido]

im scanning now with GetDataBack trial and its identified the drive as Huge - FAT16

Can I actually recover my files with the trial or do I gotta buy it?