help with corruption

[Guest]

I'll try to be as clear as one can be. My windows 2000 PC was shutdown by pressing the button in the back of the PC. The next day I couldn't see anything on the screen so I had to log into safemode to back up all of my files that I had on my E:\ drive. My E:\ is 19.0gigs. the files that I saved from the E:\ I moved to my D:\ drive which is 200gigs. I had no OS on my D:\ drive it was purely for media/data. I decided to reinstall a fresh copy of windows 2000 pro on my E:\ (as it was originally). I formatted it to NTFS, let the installation go and everything went okay until I had to restart my PC for the updates off of Microsoft.com (sp4 and security updates). I noticed as it rebooted the Windows 2000 Professional screen came up a little smaller. I then saw "chkdsk F:\" where it said that it was correcting over 22 of my avi's and mp3's. I later decided to play a media file when I realized that WMP cannot play it because the file is corrupt. Other media files are completely off; for example, I have an avi file of king arthur from the History channel, when I play it, I hear my French lesson 1 from Rosetta stone !
everytime I reboot my machine the chkdsk F;\ comes up and it asks if I want to proceed. I don't know if its trying to fix the data or if its making things worse on my D: drive.
COULD SOME PLEASE HELP ME ( if its possible to fix the files that are damaged)
Kevin

 

[CJT]

I'll try to be as clear as one can be. My windows 2000 PC was shutdown by pressing the button in the back of the PC. The next day I couldn't see anything on the screen so I had to log into safemode to back up all of my files that I had on my E:\ drive. My E:\ is 19.0gigs. the files that I saved from the E:\ I moved to my D:\ drive which is 200gigs. I had no OS on my D:\ drive it was purely for media/data. I decided to reinstall a fresh copy of windows 2000 pro on my E:\ (as it was originally). I formatted it to NTFS, let the installation go and everything went okay until I had to restart my PC for the updates off of Microsoft.com (sp4 and security updates). I noticed as it rebooted the Windows 2000 Professional screen came up a little smaller. I then saw "chkdsk F:\" where it said that it was correcting over 22 of my avi's and mp3's. I later decided to play a media file when I realized that WMP cannot play it because the file is corrupt. Other media files are completely o

ff; for example, I have an avi file of king arthur from the History channel, when I play it, I hear my French lesson 1 from Rosetta stone !

everytime I reboot my machine the chkdsk F;\ comes up and it asks if I want to proceed. I don't know if its trying to fix the data or if its making things worse on my D: drive.
COULD SOME PLEASE HELP ME ( if its possible to fix the files that are damaged)
Kevin

I don't know the answer to the problem overall, but I suspect one
issue may be the manner in which you're supporting a drive over
128 GB. Does your BIOS support such drives, or were you using
some sort of drive overlay software?

A confusing item in what you wrote:

Why F:? Do you now have an additional partition on your boot drive
beyond what was there originally?

 

[Guest]

CJT I didn't use "F: " lol windows did that automatically. I am not using no overlay software (i've never had). and I don't have an additional partition. And yes the BIOS currently supports this drive. I have two drive in total (200gig is a maxtor labeled D:\ the other is split into two; western digital each 19.0gig C:\ & E:\
Now i just ran cmd and type chkdsk D: which said "D: drive is not dirty". There's one thing I noticed just now. some files (.vob,.mpc,.ogg) aren't corrupt. Could it be because windows doesn't know what program to view it with or just can't simply recognize the extention ?
Am I out of alternatives to repair my important and most valued data at hand ?

 

[Guest]

I copied exactly what was in the cmd window:
E:\>D:

D:\>scan
'scan' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

D:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is DISK2_VOL1.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problem.

199141708 KB total disk space.
195912020 KB in 12234 files.
5412 KB in 975 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
86600 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
3137676 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
49785427 total allocation units on disk.
784419 allocation units available on disk.

D:\>

 

[Guest]

You didn't say anything about virus protection on your computer. Maybe you need to install one, update to the latest DAT file and scan your entire system for virus. Somehow, some files appears to be cross-linked.