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by may_day 1 view

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My problem is this i have 2 hard disk installed on my pc, the master drive is 40 gb and the slave is 10 gb. I used the 10 gb hd to save all my works, documents, lay-out etc. In other words this is where i store all my works. Yesterday i was able to used the 10 gb drive fine, but today when i tried to open a folder it gave me an error "THE FILE OR DIRECTORY IS CORRUPTED AND UNREADABLE" and most of the folders i can't open has ~1! as the last character name of the folder. Please help me what to do.

I tried to use windows scandisk but its no use it did not detect any problem in fact it only takes 5 seconds to scan my 10 gb hard disk.

I have not yet use any third party software to fix the said drive.

Unfortunately, I have no other back-up of all the files.

Please help me please.

Thanks

May_Day
My OS: Windows XP Pro

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by k.grass

You can try System Restore. If SR is unable to recover satisfactorily then reboot into Safe Mode by repeatedly hitting the F8 key after the POST (Power-On-Self-Test) usually followed by a beep.

This should bring you to the Boot Menu and you can select Safe Mode from there. But you have to ask yourself; What did I do recently that caused to situation to appear? A software installation that went awry. Maybe even a Windows Update.

Another possibility is that your hard disk is badly fragmented. Use Disk Cleanup and then try Defragging it.

Another fix: Run a Full System Scan with your AV product.

Another fix: Run a scan for spyware using either Spybot Search & Destroy or AdAware Personal SE. Both are free.

Another fix: and hopefully this isn't the case; the drive has gone south.

Although I've never tried it I've heard that Spin Right from the Gibson Research Corp. (http://grc.com) will recover even the most disatrous HDD calamities.

I wish you luck and HTH. :)

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