Help! need tips to fix, broken mp3's

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PSYBER BOY

Hi everyone, im from Mexico, so sorry if my english its not too well, i'll do
my best trying to explain my problem.

I had a USB Hard drive case, and i mounted a WD 80GB HD, which i use to play
all my music in parties and dj stuff like that. About 1 month before, some
moron pull the AC cable, and the Hard drive fall into the floor. I had no
time to chek it out, until the next day. I think some of you are now thinking
what happend next.

Windows recognizes the Hard Drive, Explorer shows the content, but when i
start play the files, comes up a error messsage saying that the adress of
the file its wrong and bla bla bla. Some files play others dont, then
everything goes wrong, PC freezes and the "clack of dead" start to appear,
hard drive pass away to other life, and 80GB of my best non backed up music
goes to shi*t.

I had that music in other HDD, which already repartitioned, formated and
used for other purpose, i mounted in my Desktop PC, use ONTARCK Easy recovery
to search for old files, and sucefully recover some of the songs.

The problem its that some files mark an error, saying that the extension
its not the same of the original file (WMP 11 message), media player clasicc,
says that the time code its no valid, so after all the chat'a chat'a chin
chin.

Can someome tell me, how do i fix my broken Mp3 files?
Or fix my other HDD?
Or find a better software to restore my deleted music?

Please help!!!

Greetings from Mexico, and see yall in Puerto Vallarta next spring break!!!!
 
PSYBER BOY ([email protected]) in
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I had a USB Hard drive case, and i mounted a WD 80GB HD, which i use
to play all my music in parties and dj stuff like that. About 1 month
before, some moron pull the AC cable, and the Hard drive fall into
the floor. I had no time to chek it out, until the next day. I think
some of you are now thinking what happend next.

Windows recognizes the Hard Drive, Explorer shows the content, but
when i start play the files, comes up a error messsage saying that
the adress of the file its wrong and bla bla bla. Some files play
others dont, then everything goes wrong, PC freezes and the "clack of
dead" start to appear, hard drive pass away to other life, and 80GB
of my best non backed up music goes to shi*t.

I had that music in other HDD, which already repartitioned, formated
and used for other purpose, i mounted in my Desktop PC, use ONTARCK
Easy recovery to search for old files, and sucefully recover some of
the songs.

The problem its that some files mark an error, saying that the
extension its not the same of the original file (WMP 11 message),
media player clasicc, says that the time code its no valid, so after
all the chat'a chat'a chin chin.

Can someome tell me, how do i fix my broken Mp3 files?
Or fix my other HDD?
Or find a better software to restore my deleted music?
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Your hard disk *may* be physically damaged, and then you have lost some
contents. But modern drives can survive a fall from a table (well, I didn't
test!), so the damage would more likely be limited to identification
trouble.
(Metaphorically speaking: some cans may have lost their labels, but in the
latter case not their contents.)

You could (and should) perform a disk check and fix the errors found. But
you're likely to lose something.
It can be done from the Start menu as follows (assuming the volume letter is
X):

My Computer | X: | Properties | Tools | Error-checking Check now...

Notes:
- "Properties" is accessed through the context menu (right-clicking).
- At this last dialog box, I suggest that you check both boxes
"Automatically fix file system errors" and (as your drive may be physically
damaged) "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors".
- The "bad sectors" thing adds many extra hours to the test. It may place
many files named FILEnnnn.CHK in the root directory of that volume. These
files *may* be useful, but more likely constitute the damage done. They
always consist of strings of whole clusters (allocation units of disk space,
"trays of cans"), hence their file sizes.
- You may have to restart your computer *before* the action is performed.

Third-party software may provide an easier or more advanced way of doing the
job. This software may show up in Properties as an extra tab. Like in my
case Norton Disk Doctor.
 
Thanks Chris for your post.
I'll forget to type that. I'll already do the "chkdsk" from windows, even in
"fail safe mode" whit both options check, after 1 day runnig and see no
progress, i choose to stop and try the other option, mounting the old HDD and
run Easy recovery whit the results already posted. Do you now some program or
utility, that repair my old restored mp3 files?
Or anyone have other suggestion?

And thanks to all, for take the time for reading this.
 
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