I can’t access any of my data on a USB External using Win 2000. It shows up in My Computer. Computer Management can see it, although the File System is blank and it says 100% free. Utilities I’ve used show all the folders & supfolders with files.
To date this is what I have done(for better or worse)
1) I oringially ran Chkdsk g: /f from a Dos command prompt. This ran for 48 hrs and found 10 files which said “Windows replaced bad clusters in file 3864” before crapping out at 22%
Event Viewer shows:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR5. & An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR5 during a paging operation.
2) I ran a simple ChkDsk from Computer Management which showed
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)…
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)…
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage
Security descriptor verification completed.
Replacing bad clusters in logfile.
Adding 295 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct t
293033600 KB total disk space.
221461104 KB in 35736 files.
15216 KB in 6278 indexes.
1180 KB in bad sectors.
117568 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
71438532 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
73258400 total allocation units on disk.
17859633 allocation units available on disk.
3) Partition Magic 8- It shows the HD as being active & 216gis used
I tried running Check for errors. It started finding Cross Linked Files. It allowed me to try and fix them, but I would get the following error
Access Violation at address 0052DCCC in nodule PMagicNT 7.0 exe read of address 000000008.
So I am at a standstill. Any ideas as to what I can try doing to recover any of the data?