Tom Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 I have all my music/tv shows etc on a separate IDE drive connected via a USB adaptor. This system has been working fine for ages. Today I'm listening to my music, go to change tracks and it says the destination directory is corrupted and unreadable. So i try a different file, and then i try browsing the drive itself. It still says it's corrupted and doesnt see the drive as formatted. So i tried the old failsafe - turn in off and on again. Still no joy. Any idea whats up here? A hard drive cant just magically corrupt like that surely? Its cool, stationary and none of the files have been intentionally changed/added for several weeks. If it's gone, I will be very very very upset! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadKill Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Hard drives do magically corrupt, everything has a day when it fails. My first suggestion is to take the USB adapter out of the situation - connect it directly into your PC. Report back after. You may need data recovery tools at this point, http://www.recuva.com is a free tool that may help you out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 Unfortunately it's a laptop, so i dont have the option to connect it straight to the pc. However one of my other IDE drives is working fine via the adaptor, so the fact that its working fine also removes the adaptor from the equation. I'll try that program tomorrow, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 Thanks very much! That program is fantastic. It has found everything, i'm going to buy a new external HDD and restore it all to the new drive, as I dont want to risk anything going wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathjam Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 A mate's computer won't boot up windows, instead it goes to a blue screen of death after that blue bar appears with the logo of xp professional. So I put it in another computer for him and tried to access it with the drive in slave mode. The computer says it can't be read and must be formatted. Im guessing that this is confirmation that A: the drive is buggered and B: that I installed correctly (jumper settings) in the second machine, otherwise it would not be detected. Anyways I tried using the recuva software but it said it could not read the file system type of the drive. SO if I did go ahead and format it, would I still be able to get the data back using the recuva software. Because if not and I do format it, that important data is gone forever. And I dont want to be the culprit of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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