"(Error 234) More data available" when accessing external drive

[Guest]

I'm trying to recover data from the 2.5" hard drive of a laptop I've stopped
using. I've put the hard drive in an external enclosure which Windows
recognizes. But, when I try to read/write to the drive, Windows gives me
"Error 234, More data available" and I cannot view the hard drive. Does
anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?

John

 

[S.Sengupta]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q175529/

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick reply. I changed the registry values as indicated in
kb/q175529. This resulted in a different message the first time I tried to
access the disk (it did not detect the drive), but then the 2nd time I tried
it returned to the "More data available" error.

The drive does show up in Windows Disk Management as a healthy active
partition w/ 100% free space. I suspect the partition table or boot sector
is screwed up. This all began after a crash on the laptop that I haven't
been able to get it to recover from. The BSD says "Unmountable_Boot_Volume"
-- I've tried repairing w/ the WinXP SP2 cd I used to install, but it hangs
after checking the hardware configuration.

Next I'll try a data recovery tool to see if it can find the files I'm
trying to save.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q175529/

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

I'm trying to recover data from the 2.5" hard drive of a laptop I've stopped
using. I've put the hard drive in an external enclosure which Windows
recognizes. But, when I try to read/write to the drive, Windows gives me
"Error 234, More data available" and I cannot view the hard drive. Does
anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?

John

 

[Guest]

I was able to locate and recover the needed data directory. I tried the
first demo version of a data recovery tool I found: ZAR. Not an endorsement
since it's the only one I tried, but it did do exactly the job I needed. Bad
boot sector seems to be what the problem was. Connecting via USB2.0, it took
about 2 hours total to recover 350 files (it analyzed the entire HD, I just
copied one directory).

Thanks for the quick reply. I changed the registry values as indicated in
kb/q175529. This resulted in a different message the first time I tried to
access the disk (it did not detect the drive), but then the 2nd time I tried
it returned to the "More data available" error.

The drive does show up in Windows Disk Management as a healthy active
partition w/ 100% free space. I suspect the partition table or boot sector
is screwed up. This all began after a crash on the laptop that I haven't
been able to get it to recover from. The BSD says "Unmountable_Boot_Volume"
-- I've tried repairing w/ the WinXP SP2 cd I used to install, but it hangs
after checking the hardware configuration.

Next I'll try a data recovery tool to see if it can find the files I'm
trying to save.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q175529/

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

I'm trying to recover data from the 2.5" hard drive of a laptop I've stopped
using. I've put the hard drive in an external enclosure which Windows
recognizes. But, when I try to read/write to the drive, Windows gives me
"Error 234, More data available" and I cannot view the hard drive. Does
anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?

John