Please help me facepunch, my friend brought his external harddrive to my home and wanted me to put some things in it. After that when he went home to plug it in his computer, he said there was some kind of syntax error and when I tried it back at my home, all the files had strange names that were not even letters and I couldn't open any of them.
PLEASE HELP ME! HE HAS IMPORTANT FILES LIKE CHILDHOOD PICTURES AND SHIT :(
His computer is Windows XP (86x)
Mine is Windows 7 (64bit)
Tell your friend to stop using magnets. Defrag it. Somebody had a same problem, just with a flash drive
And how could I possibly do that? Defragment I mean. It only allows me to defrag my C:
[QUOTE=tratzzz;26671921]Tell your friend to stop using magnets. Defrag it. Somebody had a same problem, just with a flash drive[/QUOTE]
A defrag doesn't fix errors, in fact I can't figure out why you think defrag would help at all. It sounds even less credible when you said you defragmented flash storage, which is sort of a "never [b]ever[/b] do this" kinda thing unless its a special flash storage optimization.
OP open a command prompt and run a checkdisk on the drive. Command is "chkdsk Z: /F /R /X" with "Z" being the drive letter. Just so you know what this is actually doing the /F fixes the errors, the /R repairs and recovers bad sectors and the /X dismounts the disk if necessary.
Thanks mate. You're a life saver. I do hope that it will work.
[editline]13th December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=M2k3;26672990]A defrag doesn't fix errors, in fact I can't figure out why you think defrag would help at all. It sounds even less credible when you said you defragmented flash storage, which is sort of a "never [b]ever[/b] do this" kinda thing unless its a special flash storage optimization.
OP open a command prompt and run a checkdisk on the drive. Command is "chkdsk Z: /F /R /X" with "Z" being the drive letter. Just so you know what this is actually doing the /F fixes the errors, the /R repairs and recovers bad sectors and the /X dismounts the disk if necessary.[/QUOTE]
Now my folders has turned into Mass effect 2 starting exe's who are 32kb each. While it says that 400 gb of 500 is filled.
I doubt this will do anything but you might as well give it a shot, try using Recuva to find the files on the drive - [url]http://www.piriform.com/recuva[/url]
Though honestly it sounds like either the drive itself is damaged or it needs a format. I'd wait for a second opinion before blowing everything away but if a checkdisk didn't work its probably done for.
Did you safely remove the drive using the hotplug manager in the systray? If you just yanked out the USB cable and turned the drive off (or turned it off before you unplugged the USB cable) then you probably corrupted the entire drive, in which case, everything is lost.
I used a freeware program to find lost files and it found all the pictures etc in clusters. The pictures worked etc, but due to it being a really crappy program. Searching took 12 hours and it crashed after taking multiple files.
The program is pcinspector recovery. Is recuva the same?
What brand? Try putting it directly in your PC, if it's one that's openable.
[QUOTE=Shadaez;26689078]What brand? Try putting it directly in your PC, if it's one that's openable.[/QUOTE]
I can enter the USB etc, it's just that the folder has turned into a file with folder picture (which opens ME2) and all text documents outside of it has strange text thats not even letters.
Linux Live CD to see if it does any better. I'd suggest putting it in the PC too since SATA or IDE is so much faster than USB.
What does that have to do with anything?
Well, if you did have to run Recuva, the speeds are going to pretty poor through USB; Plus it might somehow be a problem with the SATA/IDE/Whateverelse->USB.
[QUOTE=Shadaez;26689579]Well, if you did have to run Recuva, the speeds are going to pretty poor through USB; Plus it might somehow be a problem with the SATA/IDE/Whateverelse->USB.[/QUOTE]
Shadaez, thank you for your help. I have fortunately found out how to solve the problem. I want to especially thank Tratzzz and M2k3, without you guys I wouldn't have been able to found these pictures.
Is the drive fixed, or did you just get the stuff off of it? If everything needed is now off of it format it to see if it's fixed.
I am in need of another software that can recover files. Like pcinspector recovery.
[QUOTE=Sokrates;26689850]I am in need of another software that can recover files. Like pcinspector recovery.[/QUOTE]
Piriform Recuva
[QUOTE=bohb;26679646]Did you safely remove the drive using the hotplug manager in the systray? If you just yanked out the USB cable and turned the drive off (or turned it off before you unplugged the USB cable) then you probably corrupted the entire drive, in which case, everything is lost.[/QUOTE]
That hasn't been an issue since pre-XP. If a write cycle was in process than anything being written would be corrupt but the data already on the drive would still be fine.
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
Try a program called Disk Digger ([url]http://diskdigger.org/[/url]) [I can never remember how to properly do HTML tags] It's helped me in the past, although it normally does undelete type work so I'm not entirely sure how it'll react to this situation.
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