Unreadable hard drive - Help!

We had a power outage last night and now I can not access my second drive. I am running WinXP Pro
with all drives formatted in NTFS. I had write caching activated which seems to have contributed to
the problem. The main drive works fine, but the second drive is inaccessible. The second drive is
partitioned and formatted into 2 partitions and both XP and Partition Magic report the partitions as
being okay. However, when I try to access the partitions, I get an error message that the drive is
not accessible, "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". I tried to run chkdsk, but it
wouldn't work. I tried a fix on the MBR per a friends suggestion, but there wasn't a backup MBR. I
started to reformat, but remembered I have some digital pictures that had not yet been backed up.
Any suggestions on how to go about recovering the files or getting the file system back up and
operating?


Thanks,

Jimmy

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"Jimmy" wrote in message
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We had a power outage last night and now I can not access my second drive.
I am running WinXP Pro
with all drives formatted in NTFS. I had write caching activated which
seems to have contributed to
the problem. The main drive works fine, but the second drive is
inaccessible. The second drive is
partitioned and formatted into 2 partitions and both XP and Partition
Magic report the partitions as
being okay. However, when I try to access the partitions, I get an error
message that the drive is
not accessible, "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". I
tried to run chkdsk, but it
wouldn't work. I tried a fix on the MBR per a friends suggestion, but
there wasn't a backup MBR. I
started to reformat, but remembered I have some digital pictures that had
not yet been backed up.
Any suggestions on how to go about recovering the files or getting the
file system back up and
operating?


Thanks,

Jimmy

Sorry, but I do not post my e-mail address even with spam block on an initial post. If someone were
to suggest a fix and request a posting of my e-mail address for more more extensive replies I would
certainly do so. Do you have any tangible suggestions for resolving my hard drive problem?

"anon" wrote in message news:bjfQa.9537$o54.8102@lakeread05...
Would you like some help?

Perhaps posting a real e address with a spam block would be a great
idea!!!!!

posted by anon no where nevermind somewhere


"Jimmy" wrote in message
...
We had a power outage last night and now I can not access my second drive.
I am running WinXP Pro
with all drives formatted in NTFS. I had write caching activated which
seems to have contributed to
the problem. The main drive works fine, but the second drive is
inaccessible. The second drive is
partitioned and formatted into 2 partitions and both XP and Partition
Magic report the partitions as
being okay. However, when I try to access the partitions, I get an error
message that the drive is
not accessible, "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". I
tried to run chkdsk, but it
wouldn't work. I tried a fix on the MBR per a friends suggestion, but
there wasn't a backup MBR. I
started to reformat, but remembered I have some digital pictures that had
not yet been backed up.
Any suggestions on how to go about recovering the files or getting the
file system back up and
operating?


Thanks,

Jimmy

Always try to recover from a clone. ie. step #1 is to try to clone the
defective hdd.

"Jimmy" wrote in message
.. .
Sorry, but I do not post my e-mail address even with spam block on an
initial post. If someone were
to suggest a fix and request a posting of my e-mail address for more more
extensive replies I would
certainly do so. Do you have any tangible suggestions for resolving my
hard drive problem?

"anon" wrote in message
news:bjfQa.9537$o54.8102@lakeread05...
Would you like some help?

Perhaps posting a real e address with a spam block would be a great
idea!!!!!

posted by anon no where nevermind somewhere


"Jimmy" wrote in message
...
We had a power outage last night and now I can not access my second
drive.
I am running WinXP Pro
with all drives formatted in NTFS. I had write caching activated
which
seems to have contributed to
the problem. The main drive works fine, but the second drive is
inaccessible. The second drive is
partitioned and formatted into 2 partitions and both XP and Partition
Magic report the partitions as
being okay. However, when I try to access the partitions, I get an
error
message that the drive is
not accessible, "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable".
I
tried to run chkdsk, but it
wouldn't work. I tried a fix on the MBR per a friends suggestion, but
there wasn't a backup MBR. I
started to reformat, but remembered I have some digital pictures that
had
not yet been backed up.
Any suggestions on how to go about recovering the files or getting the
file system back up and
operating?


Thanks,

Jimmy

"anon" wrote in message news:bjfQa.9537$o54.8102@lakeread05...
Would you like some help?

Perhaps posting a real e address with a spam block would be a great
idea!!!!!

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"Jimmy" wrote in message
...
We had a power outage last night and now I can not access my second drive.
I am running WinXP Pro
with all drives formatted in NTFS. I had write caching activated which
seems to have contributed to
the problem. The main drive works fine, but the second drive is
inaccessible. The second drive is
partitioned and formatted into 2 partitions and both XP and Partition
Magic report the partitions as
being okay. However, when I try to access the partitions, I get an error
message that the drive is
not accessible, "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". I
tried to run chkdsk, but it
wouldn't work. I tried a fix on the MBR per a friends suggestion, but
there wasn't a backup MBR. I
started to reformat, but remembered I have some digital pictures that had
not yet been backed up.
Any suggestions on how to go about recovering the files or getting the
file system back up and
operating?


Thanks,

Jimmy

"Jimmy" wrote in message ...

Thanks to all that responded. I have retrieved most the lost files and have reformatted the drive's
partitions.