re: CHKDSK Corrupted my files.
Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11748 messages posted)
HybridMoments
I wish I could tell you that you have a chance to get them back but once it becomes
gibberish that's it,junk files, it's true that you can use software to recovery files
but they must in a true format or to say not in a
damaged / corrupted state ,(junk in junk out thing).
You're not the 1st. and I'm sure and you will not be the last, most who run Windows
know the golden rule about Windows backup,backup,backup it always best to do it off
site or to say not on the same PC,i.e. a DVDRW disk/tape or ext. box with a IDE HD
that you can remove or turn off or the new pen devices (4gb). are a good way to go
also because you can put them in your pocket and the data is safe as long you don't
put magnetic screw drivers in your pocket like I do.
Have a good weekend
On Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 8:31 pm, HybridMoments wrote:
>I had XP on my system for a while, and decided that it was stupid, so decided to
>go back to 2K. So since I have two fixed disks, I already had a bunch of data on
>the secondary one, as well as I backed up my documents on the second one.
>
>Now after I installed 2K, and was in the process of installing drivers and restarting,
>during the boot sequence 2k decides there is some thing wrong with my second fixed
>disk and runs CHKDSK.
>
>Whatever it was doing took a while, and I never did find out what it was doing because
>my screen was polluted with fast moving text.
>
>So after I regained control, I went to check out the drive, and everything seemed
>to be alright aesthetically. But a majority of my images, text, wav and other files
>are corrupted. Images are unreadable or scrambled, mp3s' and wav's are a bunch of
>noise, and text is gibberish.
>
>I want to recover these files. The reason I backed them up on that drive is to prevent
>this sort of thing from happeneing. My theory is that 2k freaked out because the
>drive was formatted with NTFS 5.1 and mistaked the drive as erroneous. Any suggestions?
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- CHKDSK Corrupted my files. (HybridMoments: Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 8:31 pm)
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