Harddrive Problem, Pls Help!

[yellow1912]

I've just bought a Western Digital 160GB Internal Hard Drive (you guys remember those hdd sale in OfficeMax?), I connected as my slave drive and it worked fine for a few days, but just a few minutes ago, i couldnt access it, i got the error "H:\ is not accessible" or something like that, I restarted the computer, b4 the logon screen appeared, a blue screen, i think it's the scan disk screen or something like that appeared, and it was very fast but i could read something like "deleting index ...."etc, god.

And I could access it again but i found out that i lost half of my files..........

Pls, anyone help me!!! What's wrong here? Is the HDD broken? Can i find my files again?


PS: Oh, and i should have mentioned that this partition is in NTFS, while my C and D drive are in FAT32 ! my boot drive is always FAT32 up to now, but seem like FAT32 doesnt support HDD greater than 120gb so i had to choose ntfs for the new hdd!

 

[Mojoed]

1. Run some Anti-Virus software
2. Verify the cable is physically intact, and connected properly.
3. Your MFT may be have been corrupted, format your drive and retest.
4. In my experience, a new hard drive will either fail in the first few weeks, or last years. Not too many in the middle. You may have gotten a dud.

Btw, NTFS is FAR superior to FAT32 in the vast majority of scenarios.

 

[yellow1912]

I used some Data recovery tools like Active@ UNDELETE, they all reported they can't not read some sectors (those last ones). But I used HDD Regenerator and found no bad sectors on my HDD. I also did a through out scan disk in windows. Any suggestion please?

 

[imported_Zeke]

did you use western digitals little recovery sweet? I've had good luck with that when I've been forced to deal with those pesky WD drives

 

[yellow1912]

I have no luck, actually my damn floppy drive is broken, but i'll try to get 1 this afternoon !

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: yellow1912
I have no luck, actually my damn floppy drive is broken, but i'll try to get 1 this afternoon !

UltimateBootCD

- M4H

 

[yellow1912]

For anyone who stills struggle with the same problem
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331958#kb3