Weird stuff with my external disk

[Drake7707]

I bought a new external disk today and copied some stuff from my old one, all goes well etc

 

Then i want to do a disk check of my old one because i wanted to defragment it.

Well after hanging i tried to use remove hardware safely (which i normally never do), but that failed, so i pull out the usb cable (it didn't do anything on my disk, i checked). So i ended the program that was checking, put my usb cable back in ... nothing.

 

I thought it might be because it failed to close the generic controller, so i reboot. To my suprise it says 'Logical Disk', when i go to it, "... is unformatted, do you want to format it now ?" ... .... crap...

 

I figured the FAT32 table was corrupt, so i quickly installed par!@#$%^&*ion magic 8. I see the file system is still FAT32 in pq8, but when i use its internal file browser no files to be found. I check for errors: 0 errors, i check for bad clusters: no bad clusters.

 

greaaaaaaaat...

 

so as a last resort, i boot my live cd of knoppix 5.1, and yay it recognizes the files. So i make my new external disk writable (ntfs in knoppix :s) and start copying file per file, but some files doesn't want to copy (unable to .... ) or even doesn't want to create the directory... i try placing it somewhere else on the disk and then it does want to copy o_O".

 

Any idea why knoppix does that. Meanwhile im going to save the rest of my 200gb =.=

[Drake7707]

it seems i can't copy more than 3-5 files to a folder on a ntsc ntfs disc, is there any solution to that ?

 

any linux experts out here ?

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off to tech!

[rootbear75]

ntsc?

 

or ntfs?

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well maybe you just need to repair the mbr on the drive... i think the last program i used was called par!@#$%^&*ion table doctor, it works really well.. worst comes to worst use a program called Easy Recovery and do an advanced recovery, if that doesn't grab them, i dont know what will.

 

use torrents for those proggies

[rootbear75]

Windows XP (pro i know has it... not sure about home) has a Recovery Console you can use on the install cd

[Drake7707]

err i meant ntfs ofcourse..

 

Well i tried other recovery programs but they all say the disk is perfectly fine. How can windows not see data and at the same time not find any errors... prolly just one of those 1 in a million cases >.>.

 

Anyway, i made a 60gb fat32 par!@#$%^&*ion on my new disk, and then luckily knoppix didn't give any more errors, so i'm dumping 60gb at a time to that par!@#$%^&*ion, reboot in windows, and copy to the correct place and repeat...

 

Now ~40gb more to go yay

 

I just hope once everything is deleted, that windows format it correctly with a full format... last time i use iolo system !@#$%^&*...stupid stuff >.> (that and/or combined with the occasion stupid power cable that falls out of my disk might have had something to do with it)

[rootbear75]

(that and/or combined with the occasion stupid power cable that falls out of my disk might have had something to do with it)

thats probably the problem

i have a thumbdrive that got wiped clean because i "suspect" i pulled it out while it was still transferring data, or being accessed.

[Drake7707]

Well i managed to recover everything. I still find it weird that knoppix had no problems reading the file table, but windows had, while it's a windows file system oO"

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if all recovery software says the disk is fine but windows can't see the files, i'm about 99% sure all it is a damaged or corrupt MBR. fixing those is extremely simply, just use any proggie like par!@#$%^&*ion table doctor, or just google 'repair mbr'. ahhhhh you fixed it the hard way!

[Drake7707]

i scanned with par!@#$%^&*ion magic 8 for errors but none :s

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an oddity!