Hi,
I got a message saying a directory on one of my drives was corrupt and was told to run Checkdisk (CHKDSK). I did with the attribute /r (repair) but now it's stuck at stage 4 of 5 (verifying file data). What would you advise me to do? Also it currently says the drive is not accessible.
OS : XP SP3
Corrupt Directory
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Re: Corrupt Directory
try chkdsk volume:/f - it will skip repairing bad sectors and just repair files and directory
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Also, Is the info on the drive backed up? Use a live CD and back up the files you need just in case you cause more damage.
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Re: Corrupt Directory
Eventually, CHKDSK did run and it "repaired" the bad sectors - this meant I lost around 130GB of data. I installed the data recovery tool "Get Data Back fro NTFS" v4.01 and I can get most of it back however it's not freeware and so I cannot actually save the data just view it. Is there an alternative?
I didn't have enough space to back the data up but I bought a new hard drive now.
In hindsight I should have done what DNR suggested.
I didn't have enough space to back the data up but I bought a new hard drive now.
In hindsight I should have done what DNR suggested.
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You can design your system to be safe from hardware failure or at least reduce its impact.
This is why I advocate for users to only keep their OS and applications on the computer HDD, and use removable storage and redundant storage of important data. SD, burning to disk, and online storage keeps the personal data from being lost when the computer or OS/application fails the system. Reinstalling the OS and applications is easy with the disks, and a batch file can restore personal settings for the desktop from a server file. The desktop OS is the most abused software on the network, open to vulns from the internet browsing of the user (the people using the computer are the flaw!) - you should expect it to fail.
This thinking is how network admins view data on their networks - desktops and even servers can be reformatted and reinstalled to get it back to its baseline service easily - the OS and Applications are expendable. Working data, the numbers, the names, facts, figures - that data is critical and can be lost. So they develop different storage strategies, RAID, backup policies, duplication on different media, etc
Sysadmins are taught to be orgainzed, to build logical, safe data structures. They don't waste time backing up OS and application files, just the personal data. You'll see that desktop OS and even server OS are not that 'important' in the realm of data, they can be replaced, data can be lost.
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This is why I advocate for users to only keep their OS and applications on the computer HDD, and use removable storage and redundant storage of important data. SD, burning to disk, and online storage keeps the personal data from being lost when the computer or OS/application fails the system. Reinstalling the OS and applications is easy with the disks, and a batch file can restore personal settings for the desktop from a server file. The desktop OS is the most abused software on the network, open to vulns from the internet browsing of the user (the people using the computer are the flaw!) - you should expect it to fail.
This thinking is how network admins view data on their networks - desktops and even servers can be reformatted and reinstalled to get it back to its baseline service easily - the OS and Applications are expendable. Working data, the numbers, the names, facts, figures - that data is critical and can be lost. So they develop different storage strategies, RAID, backup policies, duplication on different media, etc
Sysadmins are taught to be orgainzed, to build logical, safe data structures. They don't waste time backing up OS and application files, just the personal data. You'll see that desktop OS and even server OS are not that 'important' in the realm of data, they can be replaced, data can be lost.
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