oh no- updated some drivers - to HD's turned unallocated !

[rozroz]

Ok..
I put the drives on another Pc with windows 7.
The less harmed one turned up fine!
The other one gives me this:
Not accessible - file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

What's the last resort for this? I really need to save any info there.
I'll buy a new sata drive today.

 

[brianzion]

Ok..
I put the drives on another Pc with windows 7.
The less harmed one turned up fine!
The other one gives me this:
Not accessible - file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

What's the last resort for this? I really need to save any info there.
I'll buy a new sata drive today.

as it says Not accessible - file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. on the other pc try and run recovery software again for this drive

 

[brianzion]

Free backup software :ar: Free data Recovery Software Roundup! (All freeware data recovery tools.)

 

[rozroz]

Ok I will.
Thanks for all the help till now.
I'll inform you on the results.
Listen- is there a warning against using third party driver update
Software like "genius"? This is important for everyone
Who doesn't know (like me...)

 

[brianzion]

its a pleasure helping you

im sure other users of this forum will read what has happened and take note of your problem when using any third party software carries a degree of risk i look for reviews on the products and use well known download sites like these :ar: Free Windows Downloads - Softpedia and :ar: Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com

 

[rozroz]

So I'll put the new sata drive and then use a recovery software
On my pc right? And use ubuntu for the better one.

 

[brianzion]

installing the sata drive

plug it in on the mother board and plug power plug in
restart pc
windows will install driver
you should get asked by windows to format it choose ntfs and follow instructions

lost data
try the ubuntu and try to copy/move the files you can find from the bad disc/discs to the new drive
or try the free recovery software i posted :ar: Free data Recovery Software Roundup! (All freeware data recovery tools.)

 

[rozroz]

Listen before I start the pc with the new sata drive, do o need
To put any jumpers or none at all?

ok i read i don't need jumpers for sata.
however, i still have to go into disk managment and it looks like this:
i need help on that please.
and i see the new drive shows only 930 GB on it.. any links on that ?
(sorry for all those unrelated questions, i'm googling for answers)
chose MBR and got an error message about failing the process cause drive is unallocated ??
i feel something's not right here..

ok just ignored all that and formatted two partitions.
now to try ubuntu

 

[richnrockville]

an oxymoron "Driver Genius"

I firmly believe that going to the manufacturers web site is a much better and safer way
to upgrade device drivers.

Rich

 

[rozroz]

My lesson has been learned very deeply

 

[rozroz]

ok finished with ubuntu file transfers
no trying pc inspector - but he seems to fail the task of finding data

 

[mjf]

Listen before I start the pc with the new sata drive, do o need
To put any jumpers or none at all?

ok i read i don't need jumpers for sata.
however, i still have to go into disk managment and it looks like this:
i need help on that please.
and i see the new drive shows only 930 GB on it.. any links on that ?
(sorry for all those unrelated questions, i'm googling for answers)
chose MBR and got an error message about failing the process cause drive is unallocated ??
i feel something's not right here..

ok just ignored all that and formatted two partitions.
now to try ubuntu

931 GB (binary notation) = 1TB (decimal notation).
it's the 1kB (binary notation) = 1024B (decimal) conversion.
.......It's fine.

Why is disk management showing 2 unallocated disk 1s ?

 

[rozroz]

Listen before I start the pc with the new sata drive, do o need
To put any jumpers or none at all?

ok i read i don't need jumpers for sata.
however, i still have to go into disk managment and it looks like this:
i need help on that please.
and i see the new drive shows only 930 GB on it.. any links on that ?
(sorry for all those unrelated questions, i'm googling for answers)
chose MBR and got an error message about failing the process cause drive is unallocated ??
i feel something's not right here..

ok just ignored all that and formatted two partitions.
now to try ubuntu

931 GB (binary notation) = 1TB (decimal notation).
it's the 1kB (binary notation) = 1024B (decimal) conversion.
.......It's fine.

Why is disk management showing 2 unallocated disk 1s ?

i don't know but after formatting and partitioning it seems ok now.
should i be worried?

 

[rozroz]

tried all data recovery software i could find and all failed to find anything on my corrupted/unallocated IDE drive..
(easyus, pc inspector, testdisk).. any other desperate option besides paying a lot of money?

* if i'll try recovering from another pc would i have a bigger chance?
is there any recovering software which scans before loading windows (via cd)?

 

[rozroz]

finally transferred my major files.
95% corrupted

if one software manage to recover files but they're corrupted, it means all recovery apps will find the same corrupted files?

 

[brianzion]

hi i have not forgotten about you i have been unwell with influenza been led up in bed for 3 days yes i expect that most of the free software will be limited but just say if you bought a file recoverer and that still did not work and it cost you i can see you getting mad i use external drives for important files so they are easily transferable just unplug the usb and put on another pc im sorry to say you have learnt a big lesson in using third party driver updaters