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[da-da-da.livejournal.com]

wow! ok, I am about to string myself from the ceiling.

Problem: I have a 160gb HDD that is now saying that it hasnt been formated.
What I did: I ran this program called mp3/tag studio on the whole drive making sure to get every single mp3s. well this is a bad idea. I think what happend, and i am like 100% this is what happend, but it stripped the "System Volume" directory or something. I saw mention of that as it was rebooting, and the stuff was there before i rebooted just couldnt get to one or 2 directorys. anyways, is there any utils out there to "reindex" a drive? there has to be a way to get it back, i know the data is on the dang drive. Any help would be awesome.

P.S sorry for the cross post.

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[wildkard.livejournal.com]

Offhand I think you're going to be looking at recovery software to restore the index for the NTFS. I'm no expert at these things; and definitely not NT/2K/XP certified (oops ;) so I'm not even sure if the utilities included with windows can help much. Specifically I'm thinking of the repair features activated by running setup from the install cd.

In the past I have had access to a software called GetDataBack for NTFS (recovered a fair chunk of lost data)... but I know from experience that recovery softwares are seldom cheap and seldom useful in shareware/demo editions (typically it gives you a demonstration of what you can recover, but won't actually do it). Furthermore this perticular program needs to run under a WindowsOS... so you're swapping damaged drives in via IDE, SCSI or RAID cables...

Hopefully someone else will have more information that I on these sort of things.

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

i know the XP cd has a recovery console mode, this might be useful in getting a drive back to a useable status assuming you are trying to get a drive back to life, additionaly partition magic might be able to find the data as well, anyhow in the xp disk book to the cd, and go to the system recovery not asr, but if you did this step it could make life much healthier. the two commands you are looking for from the recovery console is fixmbr and fixboot there are some others but those are the two that come to mind, type help and it should let you see what all you can do. is the recovery console cant find the drive info in any way shpe/form, try booting the ntfs drive in xp, its actually pretty clever in recovering dmaged drives (this does assume a second machine running xp to boot from) and if you are booting from said second machine i thing the "reindexing" bit can be done with scandisk XP but im not quite sure what you mean by reindexing.

[da-da-da.livejournal.com]

Yea the "reindexing" is just a guess i really dont know what its called. in anycase, the problem i am having with "Recovery Console" is that this drive never had an OS on it. when i run the console it only shows the intial c:\windows install...so i have no option there to work on the slave drive. but i will logon after this Active@ UNDELETE program is done checking the HD out. and see if i cant actually get to the second drive some how.

Thnx