Penguin a la rescateh!
Monday, October 24, 2005 at 7:56 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jynx
(29 messages posted)
Hi,
Windows is very impatient when it comes to reading disks which are breaking down.
Mostly, a failing disk can be read, but it just takes longer and Windows immediately
gives you the "busted!" routine. Try the following (I've used it to good success
several times):
- Make sure you have a partition with Fat32 format available, or else a USB disk
or something. (CD is no good unless you have a separate burner and reader.)
- Download a copy of Knoppix Live Linux CD and boot from it. (Boot from the reader
so you can use the burner to save your data if need be)
- Once it has booted, look on the desktop - there will be links to your hard disks.
Click them and try to find your unreadable folder.
- Be patient! It may take some time to read the folder. It also might be that the
folder is fine, but the file table entry is what is corrupt. You can try using GetDataBack
for FAt32 or NTFS to dig up the file itself.
- If Knoppix manages to see it, rightclick your USB or Fat32 partition, go to Actions,
Change Read/Write mode. This allows you to save to it.
- Copy your files.
Good luck! Hope it works!
- Jynx
On Monday, October 24, 2005 at 5:56 am, Avatar wrote:
>
>Right now I dont consider myself to be computer illiterate or anything but I know
>when Im stumped.
>
>About two days ago I tried to open up my "Written" folder (just a folder I keep
all
>of my work in in My Docs) but instead of opening my computer froze.
>
>This went on for some while (as I ran a virus scanner and error nuker in the back
>ground to no avail) until I became so exasperated that I tried to delete the whole
>folder. Needless to say this didnt work: "File cannot be found, C drive is not
formatted"
>was the message I recieved or something like that which is rediculous because I
could
>open videos and music on the same drive.
>
>I was beginning to think that it might be a bad segment when I looked at the folders
>properties and found that read only was selected and for some reason the folder
was
>"zero kilobytes".
>
>I deselected read only and tried to delete it again this time getting:
>
>"Cannot delete: Data error (Cyclic redundancy check)"
>
>I guessed from all this that the file index was corrupted and that the comp now
knows
>this but that it wouldnt delete it incase it removes something that I need with
a
>similar index.
>
>Great I thought now I can run Scandisk and do away with my Lost File Fragments....but
>no, I tried to run scandisk (or errorchecker as its called on XP) and everything
>goes fine until it reaches a particular point and then it freezes and because it
>runs automatically when the comp boots up I dont even know how to stop it!!
>
>Any suggestions would be most welcome as I've run out of ideas!
- Written in response to:
- Cyclic Redundancy Checks! :( (Avatar: Monday, October 24, 2005 at 5:56 am)
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