defrag was interrupted now disk is unreadable

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While defraging a 200 gig 1 partition fat32 hd with diskeeper the power suply was interrupted and now it is not recognized as a formatted drive. It is listed as Raw. No file table found.

Please help. The info on this disk is very important to me.

I have tried running ontrack easyrecovery on it and the only option that works is RawRecovery. And that just allows me to copy all the files to another drive but it loses file structure and file names. it renames everything to "file12345.file" and lumps them into one directory hardly acceptable when dealing with 200 gigs of small files.

Thank you
Daniel.
 
Hi, Daniel.

A solution that worked well for me last summer was R-Studio ($80),
downloaded from www.r-tt.com.

I had turned on my computer, then left the room for several minutes while it
booted. When I came back, chkdsk was running (very unusual on my system!).
It was not able to complete on a 25 GB NTFS partition with about 10 GB of
files, some of them very important to me. Fortunately, I had plenty of
unpartitioned space on a 120 GB secondary HD, so I used Disk Management to
create and format a partition there to use temporarily, assigning the
unreadable drive's letter (E:) to it. (I reassigned the bad drive to Z:.)
After a month or so of trying demo and full versions of OnTrack Easy
Recovery, Acronis Disk Editor and some others, I downloaded R-Studio.
Within a couple of hours I had recovered most of my "lost" files. Over the
next few days I got most of the rest of them. Some day Real Soon Now I'm
going to finish the clean-up job and reformat that partition. (I still
don't know what caused the original problem, but my suspicion is a flakey
cable or connector that suffered a glitch at exactly the wrong moment.)

Let us know how it works out for you.

200 gigs! Wow!

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

Daniel said:
While defraging a 200 gig 1 partition fat32 hd with diskeeper the power
Click to expand...
suply was interrupted and now it is not recognized as a formatted drive. It
is listed as Raw. No file table found.
Please help. The info on this disk is very important to me.

I have tried running ontrack easyrecovery on it and the only option that
Click to expand...
works is RawRecovery. And that just allows me to copy all the files to
another drive but it loses file structure and file names. it renames
everything to "file12345.file" and lumps them into one directory hardly
acceptable when dealing with 200 gigs of small files.
 
Daniel,

First off, I doubt that Diskeeper was the root cause of this issue. If
think that the root cause was the power supply failing. If the power supply
fails abrubtly, who knows what other hardware components it may have
affected (not deliverying constant voltage can cause hard drive issues,
etc...). Defragmenting is a very I/O intensive process and depending on
when the power supply failed, bad things could possibly happen.

However, I would suggest contacting Executive Software Technical support at
818-771-1600 or via email at (e-mail address removed) and see if they can
provide any guidance.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

Want to email me? Delete ntloader.



Daniel said:
While defraging a 200 gig 1 partition fat32 hd with diskeeper the power
Click to expand...
suply was interrupted and now it is not recognized as a formatted drive. It
is listed as Raw. No file table found.
Please help. The info on this disk is very important to me.

I have tried running ontrack easyrecovery on it and the only option that
Click to expand...
works is RawRecovery. And that just allows me to copy all the files to
another drive but it loses file structure and file names. it renames
everything to "file12345.file" and lumps them into one directory hardly
acceptable when dealing with 200 gigs of small files.
 
Thanks Greg...couldn't have said it better myself.

Vaughn McMillan
Executive Software
 
So after days of working on this I have recovered around 90% of my important data

I used ONtrack and R-Studio. R-Studio Recovered FAR more files than ONtrack in this situation. But ONtrack has a lot more features. It looks like in another situation it would be very valuable. Just not this time

R-Studio to the rescue.
 
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