messed up / corrupted filesystem

[silent-circuit]

OK, I got the dreaded "delayed write failed" error while unplugging my 320GB external last night and have since run a host of software on it, none of which will allow me to do what I want... which is write a /valid/ filesystem back to the disk and make it reappear for Windows. I don't have enough disk space elsewhere to copy everything that was on it over to a secondary drive then back after formatting it.

I've tried a number of "partition recovery" type apps and "data recovery" type apps, but none will allow me to do this.

So... who among the [H]orde can help me out here? There's got to be something out there. It's not like anything major could possibly be lost by an early disconnection -- minor corruption at worst. It seems crazy that it won't just recognize it and tell my to run checkdisk in the first place.

 

[xenotype]

You will, generally, need a 2nd drive to restore the data too. And im not sure about formatting the partition youre trying to restore stuff from, that generally makes it harder. Just my 2 cents.