I just lost over 60+ GB of data on my secondary hard drive!!!

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I need help badly. I tried deleting some folders and file in my second hard
drive and I got an error that said it couldn't delete them because the file
or folder was corrupted. So I restarted my computer and it did an disk error
check before starting Windows 2000. I wasn't sure what it was doing so I let
the disk check proceed. Little did I know it deleted almost all of my data,
a lot of which I haven't backed up yet. Is there any way to get this data
back? It created a folder called "found.000" but I don't know how to use it
since it contains all of these *.dll files. I noticed in the disk check
something like "deleting sector space" or something like that. Is there a
customer service center I can call for more immediate assistance, free if
possible. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Ron
 
What happened when you restarted the pc was chkdsk ran and found broken
chains/ lost clusters, then created *.chk files of them so you can delete
them and regain the otherwise lost drive space. They're not really meant to
be recoverable files. You can open them with a text editor and attempt to
copy the parts you need to another file. The drive may have failed.

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|I need help badly. I tried deleting some folders and file in my second
hard
| drive and I got an error that said it couldn't delete them because the
file
| or folder was corrupted. So I restarted my computer and it did an disk
error
| check before starting Windows 2000. I wasn't sure what it was doing so I
let
| the disk check proceed. Little did I know it deleted almost all of my
data,
| a lot of which I haven't backed up yet. Is there any way to get this data
| back? It created a folder called "found.000" but I don't know how to use
it
| since it contains all of these *.dll files. I noticed in the disk check
| something like "deleting sector space" or something like that. Is there a
| customer service center I can call for more immediate assistance, free if
| possible. Any help is greatly appreciated.
|
| Sincerely,
| Ron
 
So basically all of my files were "broken clusters"!? I find that hard to
believe that I have 60+ GB of broken clusters since I watch my hard drives
like a hawk. If I can't recover all of my lost data, is there anyway to
prevent this from happening in the future? Also is there a windows support
number I can call for problems like this?
 
Your drive may have failed. You need to always have some backup regime in
place for anything you can't afford to be without. It's not if the hardware
will fail but when it will fail. You can try one of the drive recovery
services but they are expensive.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| So basically all of my files were "broken clusters"!? I find that hard to
| believe that I have 60+ GB of broken clusters since I watch my hard drives
| like a hawk. If I can't recover all of my lost data, is there anyway to
| prevent this from happening in the future? Also is there a windows
support
| number I can call for problems like this?
 
My 250 GB hard drive, the one I use solely for storage, is not even one year
old yet. If I format it, will it still be safe to use again?
 
Not if it is failing. You can download and run a diagnostic utility from the
drive manufacturer's web site.

Is this reghack in place?

48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305098

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| My 250 GB hard drive, the one I use solely for storage, is not even one
year
| old yet. If I format it, will it still be safe to use again?
 
I've had two hd's fail, that were less than 3 months old.
AS DP said 'a backup regime is a neccessity'

Ron said:
My 250 GB hard drive, the one I use solely for storage, is not even one year
old yet. If I format it, will it still be safe to use again?

Dave Patrick said:
Your drive may have failed. You need to always have some backup regime in
place for anything you can't afford to be without. It's not if the hardware
will fail but when it will fail. You can try one of the drive recovery
services but they are expensive.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| So basically all of my files were "broken clusters"!? I find that hard to
| believe that I have 60+ GB of broken clusters since I watch my hard drives
| like a hawk. If I can't recover all of my lost data, is there anyway to
| prevent this from happening in the future? Also is there a windows
support
| number I can call for problems like this?
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DL said:
I've had two hd's fail, that were less than 3 months old.
AS DP said 'a backup regime is a neccessity'
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Hard drives, any modern hardware, unless abused while you use them,
either fail soon or tend to last plenty of years. I have had only one
fail, and it was apparently bad when I got it. Other than that I have
had one mobo (MSI) go bad while installing, one power supply wear out,
and one keyboard break (you can imagine how, I'm a gamer). All else
over the years simply became obsolete, lasting through years of heavy use.

The occasional weak item (or in the case of that MSI mobo, a bad design)
will make it through testing, get delivered, installed, and quickly go
bad. Other than that it's a rare item that's good and goes bad before
you toss it for obsolescence anyway.
 
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