Usb External Hard Driver - File / Folder Corrupt Unreadable
Oct 12, 2008
I have a usb external enclosure which holds a 120 gig hard drive that I use for storage. I shut it off when I am done to save power, and just the other day I notice a file on it that is quite large isn't allowing me to open it any longer. It keeps saying that the 'file or folder is corrupt and unreadable'...Weird. I was just looking at the folder yesterday. Is there absolutely anything I can do to get that data back?? All the other files on that hard drive are fine. Why did it target out that file?
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Aug 8, 2005
Running Windows XP home, well-protected from viruses and spyware with all the usual recommended programs. I have a 160G external firewire hard drive, NTFS system. Cannot access data all of a sudden, I am getting an error message, "file system corrupt and unreadable." In disk management, the drive is listed as healthy, 160G, but no NTFS listed. What could have caused this, and is there a way to retrieve the data? Are there any low-cost or freeware programs to do this, or is it inevitable to spend a "fortune?"
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I end up Reformatting, and reloading everything, and then almost Exactly, The Same thing happens in a week... or just under. (its been 6 days now i think since the last time)
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I have taken Macafee off my pc (or I HOPE so), and now I have NO diskchecker on AT ALL. I think I have some programs on which I thought I had removed but I cant get rid of them all without paying. Im losing my mind !!!!
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Aug 22, 2005
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i keep getting error messages on my computer like these here is a screen shot i have no i dear what could be wrong my system is virus/trogan/adware/spyware free i run norton internet security 2007 on my system so i have no i dear what the problem is but i keep getting these error messages i have ran chkdsk alot of times does not seem to be a problem i recently had chkdsk always starting up when windows starts saying the drive is dirty or something i was able to get rid of it by using the xp cd in recovery mode and typing in fixmbr i would rather not have to reinstall my operating system
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