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xa
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So, I got home tonight, and as usual the first thing I wanted to do was listen some tunes. So I tried to access my Uncompressed folder, but this was the result:
I tried accessing the rest of the drive, and it seemed to be fine, with just this folder not accessable. But I wanted to access it so I restarted and tried again, this time I couldn't even access the root of the drive!
So I tried rebuilding the master boot record with the recovery console (FIXMBR DeviceHardDisk1) but it didn't help. I've been searching for over an hour now and just can't seem to find a fix. This is terrible because I have large amounts of important and irreplacable data on that disk! Huge amounts of music, recordings, my own projects, prettymuch everything important to me on my computer was on that drive 
So if anyone has any idea of how I might be able to fix this, I would be forever in debt to that person 
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the moral, of course, being the importance of backing up. But since that's not an option now...
I used to think I had a very refined sense of humour, and that's why people never laughed at my jokes. Now I've realized that I'm just not funny.
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xTr1m
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Randor
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I might just be the table of contest wich is damaged. Don't boot it up, you need some special help there  |
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LPChip
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I might give you some advice but it will sound strange!!! 
First, get yourself a replacement harddisk, cus I think its broken.
Put your old harddisk in a waterproof seeled bag, and tape it in such way that you're sure no water can get in the bag.
Put the bag in the freezer, and let it remain there for atleast 4 hours. Less can do, but is not recommended. More than 4 hrs probably better.
In the meanwhile, prepare your computer with the 2nd harddisk and jumper settings prepared to backup the important data. Even get yourself a bootdisk / ghost disk or whatever to make you ready for the big operation.
Once ready for the procedure, get the harddisk out of the freezer, hook it up as fast as possible, but be sure that there won't be any water spilled on your pc hardware, and turn on your computer.
You should be able to access ALL your data for atleast half an hour.
The reason is that due to the cold, the metal schrinks and therefor it seems to access the data. When the drive is in it for a while, it'll get warmer and the needle increases again.
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John Marwin
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wow lpchip, at first I thought you were full of BS (honestly, I've heard similar myths before) but when I read the rest I realized that it's actually pretty damned smart 
(and the other wives tales state that your hd will be magically fixed after that)
I'm hoping that you learned your lesson xa
Anyhow, I've used a program called spinrite to fix simpler errors with harddrives, but recently I've read stuff that says that program is mostly bullshit, so I can't really guarantee it will work....
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That guy that smashes bytes
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I've had limited success by booting into Knoppix and mounting a "dead" windows drive... for some odd reason, Knoppix can sometimes read the drive when Windows can't. Then, it's just a matter of mounting a network drive, and copying data to it, or burning data to cd/dvd. Or, if you have another HD, data to it.... either way I wish you luck. If you do manage to get full access to it in Windows, I suggest you try using partitionmagic to copy the entire partition over to another drive. That way, you've got all your data
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That guy that smashes bytes
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..... did I mention that I hope you get your data back.... and that I know what it's like?
I've been through 4 laptop harddrives in the past 3 years... none of which I really backed-up much data from before they but the dust... I've since started saving all my documents to "my documents" and backing up that folder... and other important shit like my VST directories.... so that I never run into issues like that again.
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xa
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Registered: 08.Jun.04 |
going for teh LPChip suggestion 
I used to think I had a very refined sense of humour, and that's why people never laughed at my jokes. Now I've realized that I'm just not funny.
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LPChip
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Good luck m8. Hope you are able to recover some data.
On another forum, there once was a topic about techniques on how to recover data, and unbelievebally about 90 of the 200 posts or so were describing this technique. Seems to be a famous technique in russia.
http://www.modplug.com :: http://www.lpchip.nl
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