GEEK Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 hey guys Am in a bit of problem. while partitioning my new segate 160gig i ignorantly enabled this option but after a couple of bsod my F:\ has got corrupted has anyone been in a similar situation? google wasnt of much help which softwares do you guys recommend to use for recovery? or any other alternate methods anyone can suggest to recover data? the partition was 40gig with data inside around 15-20gig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Rogers Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 You may find this useful:http://rapidshare.com/files/149049924/200_..._Hard_Drive.rarTed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ala_borbe Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Hello,Main thing is that you DON'T WRITE anything on partition...I suggest that you put another hard drive in your PC and recover data from damaged partition. Use some software for recovering (i advise you to use GetDataBack) http://rapidshare.com/files/150781951/GetDataBack_v3.63.rar.htmlAfter you get your data from drive it would be good that you download diagnostic software for your hard drive and test for hardware problems!hope you get your data back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killboy Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 (edited) I have that setting enabled on both my HDDs (Seageate Barracuda and some Samsung 501), dunno if this is the Windows default, can't remember enabling that myself But so far no data loss inspite of several BSODs and hard reboots via reset button. Guess you'll have to get a BSOD while it's writing the MFT or something to have it end up like this... Edited October 4, 2008 by Killboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEEK Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 (edited) @Teddy : Thanks@donny : writing anything more will cause overwriting...i had kept that in mind. thanksi tried "Power data recovery" and it recovered everything with any hiccups. works really smooth@killboy : Maybe you should consider disabling that option because even i had done hard reset several times before but then one fine day it just becomes corrupt after a unintentional reboot/BSODam just going to format the drive againThanks everyone Edited October 5, 2008 by GEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Rogers Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 What makes you think it was write caching that messed it up?Ted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEEK Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 you have a point. I dont have any concrete reason.The reason is probably because i got the corrupted message right after a reboot and the message clearly says that your data might get corrupted in case of a power or equipment failure. I have never experienced such a corruption before with FAT partitions.I was coding a tool which hooked explorer and thats when the reboot happened but i dont think it can be the reason for corruption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ala_borbe Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 could be a virus... or juct a bad luck...and maybe you should run diagnostic test juct in case.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEEK Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 i just formatted the partition. there is no point in running diagnostic test after recovering the datait wasnt a virus maybe pure bad luck but no worries i have recovered everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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