[damianshouse1]

ok i got a 400gb segate ultra ata segate hard drive that i installed into a external case

uploded 100gb of movies and music all of my library

jumper on drive is set to cable select
it is a standard usb case
left it on one day and when i got back i could not access the drive
drive shows up in "my computer"
in the proportys tab for the drive it shows that it is formatted in the "raw" type format also says that it has 0mb of free space and 0mb of used space

drive dosent show up in the administrative tools under disk management

cheaked error log and it shows the following error "The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur."

need help its 2 years of data and i need to save it if possable
if it isnt possable to save the data please help me format the drive so i can start over thank you in advance to the person or persons who help me with this issue

[Hughv]

Typically the jumper should be set to Master.
Change it and see if that helps.

[damianshouse1]

dosent help i was thinking that there may be a run command that might work to format it but i dont know any do you

[Hughv]

See this MS KB Article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885688
"The file system structure on disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume "Drive_letter:""
Start/Run/cmd
chkdsk /r (drive letter)
Same for format
format(drive letter /fs:ntfs

[damianshouse1]

ok did what u said the chkdsk said "invalid peramiter - /z
and the format said"the file name, directory name,or volume lable syntax is incorect.

dont underdstand what is going on with this drive
it wont show up in disk manager either

[Hughv]

chkdsk /r
(that's an R)

[damianshouse1]

did not work

[Hughv]

When troubleshooting at a distance. more info is better than less.
"Did not work", while admirably brief , doesn't tell me:
A. What didn't work.
B. What, if any, errors you may have encountered.

Originally Posted by damianshouse1

did not work

[damianshouse1]

oh ok sorry
when i ran chkdsk /r it ran it on my c drive the drive i need to fix i labeled as the z drive when i first enabled and formatted it i tried to run chkdsk on the drive that im trying to fix and nothing happend

[Elvandil]

Do not run chkdsk on that drive unless you have copies of your data. If it succeeds, the data may be permanently lost.

Repair the partition table with Testdisk
or
Testdisk Boot Floppy Image.

That will allow normal access to the drive. Copy all your data and then use Disk Management to remove the partitions, create new ones, and format.

Right-click Computer > Manage > Disk Management.

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You could also try to recover data using one of these--->

Free recovery applications:

Pandora Recovery (Free for personal use)
Smart Data Recovery
Recover Files
Recuva
Restoration
Free Undelete (NTFS only)
Softperfect File Recovery
ADRC Data Recovery Tools
Undelete Plus
Data Recovery
PCI File Recovery
DriveRescue
Ultimate Data Recovery
Disk Investigator

Commercial:

O&O Disk Recovery
Paragon Mount Everything (Mounts any file system, CD/DVD burning, File Manager, Partitioner)
GetDataBack (For FAT or NTFS)
Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro
File Scavenger
Recover My Files
RecoverPlus Pro
Zero Assumption Recovery
Active@ File Recovery
Final Recovery
Recover4All Professional
Easeus Data Recovery Wizard
NTFS Recovery

[damianshouse1]

ok i tryed to use test disk and the drive will not show up in the drive list but it dose show up in "my computer"

[damianshouse1]

ntfs recovery states error message "end sector should be larger than start sector"

[damianshouse1]

thank all who tried to help i think it is a hardware failure guess data is lost oh well

[Elvandil]

With Testdisk, you need to scan the drive and then choose the partition that is found that is closest to the original size. Then, the changes need to be written to disk. Once that is done, the drive may appear in Explorer on next boot.

The fact that the drive is detected at all, and that you received the error you did from NTFS Recovery, implies that the drive is still working.