How to recover data in bad NTFS partition...

[samsungguy]

How does one do this? Win2K SP4 thinks this partition is
unformatted and empty, but that is not true.

I cut/pasted a whole bunch of files (some of them may have
been corrupt to begin with) from an external hard drive
onto this internal drive (Primary Slave). It is in 4
partitions, and the last three partitions are just fine.
The first one, however, had a weird hiccup during one of
the big transfers, and is now corrupt.

Over a period of a few minutes, the drive appeared to be
empty in the explorer, and actually BEGAN TO INCREASE IN
FREE SPACE on its own (watching MY COMPUTER).

I have confirmed that the drive itself has no errors by
conducting a long surface scan. I have also performed a
virus scan with no problems. This must be an OS problem.

Please help me recover my data (over 30gb) and fix the
partition so it doesn't happen again.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

How does one do this? Win2K SP4 thinks this partition is
unformatted and empty, but that is not true.

I cut/pasted a whole bunch of files (some of them may have
been corrupt to begin with) from an external hard drive
onto this internal drive (Primary Slave). It is in 4
partitions, and the last three partitions are just fine.
The first one, however, had a weird hiccup during one of
the big transfers, and is now corrupt.

Over a period of a few minutes, the drive appeared to be
empty in the explorer, and actually BEGAN TO INCREASE IN
FREE SPACE on its own (watching MY COMPUTER).

I have confirmed that the drive itself has no errors by
conducting a long surface scan. I have also performed a
virus scan with no problems. This must be an OS problem.

Please help me recover my data (over 30gb) and fix the
partition so it doesn't happen again.

You could try one of these. If they don't work then you
may have to restore your data from backup.

http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz

 

[Guest]

Hi, I will look into that stuff..
In the meantime, I forgot to mention that I am using the "Dynamic Drive Overlay" software which is included with Samsung's DiskManager boot disk. My BIOS only recognizes 128 or 137 GB depending on how you look at it, but the drive in question is 160 GB. It is divided into 4 partitions of about 40GB each. The FIRST partition is the problematic one

HD0: C, D, E, F (all fine
HD1: G, H, I, J (G is the corrupt one, the rest are fine)

Since it is the slave drive, I have no other problems related to booting Win2K SP4. Now that I think about it, the DDO is probably the culprit, because there is an option during the format scenario where it asks what OS I will be booting into. It automatically chose Win2K from the list, but it did not pick the checkbox labeled SP3. Perhaps I should have checked it? It never occurred to me because I do have SP4.