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Christoph Mueller
Hi,
This morning I switched my harddisk from a promise ide controller to
the primary ide controller of my mainboard. (I did handle the hardrive
very carefully and it had no errors before)
when booting windows it said that the disk had to be checked for
errors, and then it displayed cryptic messages for 2 hours. which
could be described as one of the worst 2 hours of my life.
After that all my files were still there, but half of them now contain
only garbage.
i can still access them all, but the content is only random
characters.
The text displayed by chkdsk was like this:
The Signatur of the Multi-sektor-headers for the virtual
Clusternumber (VCN) 0x114 of Index $I30 in the File 0x2b4a
is not correct.
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
Errors in Index $I30 of file 11082 are being repaired.
Index $I30 in file 11082 is getting sorted.
(Translation from german)
This went on for 10 minutes
After that it said "orphaned file FILENAME.EXT is ..." over and over
for 2 hours with lots of filenames. I could not read the whole text
because it went by too fast.
Norton Disc Doctor and chkdsk could not find any errors on the disk
afterwards.
Can anybody tell me what caused this error, and how to avoid it in the
future?
Is there any way to restore the damaged files or at least to find out
which files are corrupt?
Chkdisk displayed a million filenames at startup, but the event log
only contains the first few 100 lines. Where do I find the rest, so I
know which files are affected?
I have a backup of most of the data, only the last month could be
lost, but I need to know how to avoid this error before I can restore,
and I want to know if there is anyway to restore the last month before
overwriting the harddisk with the backup
Thanks a lot for your help
This morning I switched my harddisk from a promise ide controller to
the primary ide controller of my mainboard. (I did handle the hardrive
very carefully and it had no errors before)
when booting windows it said that the disk had to be checked for
errors, and then it displayed cryptic messages for 2 hours. which
could be described as one of the worst 2 hours of my life.
After that all my files were still there, but half of them now contain
only garbage.
i can still access them all, but the content is only random
characters.
The text displayed by chkdsk was like this:
The Signatur of the Multi-sektor-headers for the virtual
Clusternumber (VCN) 0x114 of Index $I30 in the File 0x2b4a
is not correct.
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
Errors in Index $I30 of file 11082 are being repaired.
Index $I30 in file 11082 is getting sorted.
(Translation from german)
This went on for 10 minutes
After that it said "orphaned file FILENAME.EXT is ..." over and over
for 2 hours with lots of filenames. I could not read the whole text
because it went by too fast.
Norton Disc Doctor and chkdsk could not find any errors on the disk
afterwards.
Can anybody tell me what caused this error, and how to avoid it in the
future?
Is there any way to restore the damaged files or at least to find out
which files are corrupt?
Chkdisk displayed a million filenames at startup, but the event log
only contains the first few 100 lines. Where do I find the rest, so I
know which files are affected?
I have a backup of most of the data, only the last month could be
lost, but I need to know how to avoid this error before I can restore,
and I want to know if there is anyway to restore the last month before
overwriting the harddisk with the backup
Thanks a lot for your help