500GB hard disk now 10MB

[ZhengSu]

Hello Everyone.

Here's my weird problem. I will explain in detail everything that happened. Please bare with me, and my lack of knowledge.

I bought a 500 GB seagate SATA hard disk a few weeks ago, i have been using it as a secondary hard disk without any problems, until recently, there was a power failure, and the comp refused to boot. It would go upto windows logo, then BSOD would show up and it would reboot and this loop kept repeating. same result in safe mode or last known good configuration options aswell. The blue screen displayed the error as "unmountable boot volume".

So i booted with XP CD, went into the recovery console, and ran chkdsk, but it refused to start saying "one or more unrecoverable sectors" or something like that. tried fixboot, but it gave the same error too. So I disconnected my secondary harddisk(500 GB one) and tried the same again, and this time, chkdsk worked, and so did fixboot. And my windows was up and running after a reboot. everything was back to normal. but the secondary harddisk was not connected. So i reconnected the 500 GB harddisk and rebooted again, windows loaded up normal without any problems, but when i tried to open G: (which is the 500 GB harddisk drive), it said that the disk hask not been formatted, and prompted me if I wanted to format it, i said No. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting again, but to no use.

Then I restarted the comp with the XP CD again, and again to Recover Console, and Ran chkdsk on G:. after chkdsk was done, i restarted the comp, and windows loaded up, then i tried to open G: and surpisingly it opened up without asking me to format it, BUT now it shows total disk space as 10MB, and only some KB of free space. And now im really worried. Cant seem to find a fix for this. Please help me out.

I have not formatted the hard disk, because there is alot of very important documents on it. Although in "Disk Management" (right-click on My Computer -> Manage) it shows the 500GB harddisk as Disk 0 and shows 465.76GB, healthy (active). BUT, it shows the file system as FAT, instead of NTFS which it was earlier. I hope this is not confusing.

My Specs:
Pentium D 3.00 GHZ,
2 GB RAM,
Windows XP PRO SP3.

If my post is confusing, please let me know, I will try to elaborate. Thank you all in advance.

[ZhengSu]

Okay nevermind. I finally got it. Didnt know it could be fixed SO easily.

I had it fixed with a free software called TestDisk from cgsecurity***** , it works WONDERS. I cant thank the developers enough for this wonderful piece of work.

Thanks.