I need some help.
Ok, so about a week ago my hard drive suddenly stopped working for me.
It is connected to my computer with an external usb box called safestore.
The day it went down a message came up saying something about files being corrupt and asking me to run chkdsk.
Anyway, I looked into the properties of the drive and it says that the file system is raw now, and it was ntfs before this. I cant do anything with the drive now, it still says there's corrupted files when i try to open it, and I cant run an error checking scan or defragment it from the properties menu.
I got the recover my files software and serial number last week, and did a scan on the drive. I'm pretty sure I did a complete format recover scan, which ran for like 4 or 5 days, and doesnt seem to have done anything.
At first I had a bunch of file types highlighted, but once it was going for a couple days, I only left a couple going. It found some avi files before I stopped it from looking for those, but I cant preview those, and I tried putting them on a disc, and cant find any files on it when I put it in my dvd drive.
The last thing I tried was running a fast format recover, and it didn't find anything. The program did find files, like I said, there were some avi files, and there were a bunch of jpegs that were found, and I was able to preview them until I unhighlighted jpegs in the file types, after that it said all the pics I previewed were corrupted.
I did a file search for just mp3s before anything, and it was finding them, but I stopped the search because it was taking too long, and I couldn't preview anything.
This is whats in the event log, now I'm not sure if its just the last search or all of them, but here it is...
EventLog
Searching for partition entries (Method 1).
Cylinder = 30515
Tracks per Cylinder = 255
Sectors per Track = 63
Quick Found Partition at 63
Found 1 partitions.
Partition at 63 is NTFS
Drive = 1
Bytes Per Sector = 512
Cluster Size = 4096
MFT Start Cluster = 786432
MFT Record Size = 1024
MFT Index Size = 4096
Total Sectors = 490223411
Total Clusters = 61277926
Sectors Per Cluster = 8
Attempting to read the MFT for drive 1\
Not a valid $MFT
A total of 0 file(s) were located.
Time Elapsed: 8.98826666666667 (mins)
Searching for partition entries (Method 1).
Cylinder = 30515
Tracks per Cylinder = 255
Sectors per Track = 63
Quick Found Partition at 63
Found 1 partitions.
Partition at 63 is NTFS
Drive = 1
Bytes Per Sector = 512
Cluster Size = 4096
MFT Start Cluster = 786432
MFT Record Size = 1024
MFT Index Size = 4096
Total Sectors = 490223411
Total Clusters = 61277926
Sectors Per Cluster = 8
Attempting to read the MFT for drive 1\
Not a valid $MFT
A total of 0 file(s) were located.
Time Elapsed: 9.25 (mins)
I'm pretty sure this is only the last two searches.
If anyone can help, please reply.
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