Slave HD got damaged with some cmd commands

[jcroot]

Hi guys!

I hope i can get any help from here, this is really important.

I was trying to fix my friend's computer by formatting windows vista but her cd/dvd drive is not working (is damaged) so my only option was to use my usb drive and get it ready to install windows vista and I followed this guide:

http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/12/install-windows-vista-from-usb-flash.html

The problem is that when I used these commands my second hard drive which was an slave HD now is damaged, I can get it to open, if I try to open it it will "You need to format this drive in order to use it".

Can somebody please tell me what are my options? I really need to know if I can recover my files from this HD.

 

[Whiffen]

The file system may have been corupt.

Try, Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc

Take a look at your corrupt drive. Tell us the file system (NTFS, FAT32, etc.) and the
status (Healthy, etc.) and the size of the drive and amount of free space.

 

[jcroot]

The file system may have been corupt.

Try, Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc

Take a look at your corrupt drive. Tell us the file system (NTFS, FAT32, etc.) and the
status (Healthy, etc.) and the size of the drive and amount of free space.

Thanks for your reply, here is an image from my slave (K) HD:

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/5486/45338214nc7.jpg

This is what I currently have... I hope I can recover all my backup files, this happened while trying to help a girl with her laptop that didn't have a way to install windows vista because of the cd drive.

 

[Whiffen]

All right, so it looks as though your hard drive isn't broken but the file format have changed. You CAN recover these files ;D

First I would try,

1. Click Start, and then Run.
2. In Open, type cmd, and then press ENTER.
3. Use one of the following procedures:
• To repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information, at the command prompt, type

chkdsk volume:/r

, and then press ENTER.

Note If one or more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)
Type Y, and then press ENTER to schedule the disk check, and then restart your computer to start the disk check.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265

If that doesn't fix it you can try this program, I can't find a better one atm, this one works fine but you can only save 4 folders from whatever it finds unless you buy it.

1. download zar83setup.exe from here

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.htm

2. follow these steps,

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/unformat-tutorial.htm

 

[nickc]

why not just buy her a DVD and put in the lap top to put windows on it, of course u would still have to fix u're hard drive.

 

[jcroot]

All right, so it looks as though your hard drive isn't broken but the file format have changed. You CAN recover these files ;D

First I would try,



http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265

If that doesn't fix it you can try this program, I can't find a better one atm, this one works fine but you can only save 4 folders from whatever it finds unless you buy it.

1. download zar83setup.exe from here

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.htm

2. follow these steps,

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/unformat-tutorial.htm

Hi and thanks for your reply!

I tried the command promt and like you said... it asked me to re schedule my disk check next time I restart my PC. Well the thing is that after I restart my PC it checked my C disk and NOT my K disk which is the one I want to recover.

I also tried to check the K disk manually but it will ask me to format the HD first.

Do you believe with the z a recovery software I will be able to recover my files? is there anything else I can try?

 

[CCT]

Whiffen said to use 'chkdsk volume: /r', which for you is <chkdsk k: /r> .

http://www.ss64.com/nt/chkdsk.html

 

[jcroot]

Whiffen said to use 'chkdsk volume: /r', which for you is <chkdsk k: /r> .

http://www.ss64.com/nt/chkdsk.html

Hi!

I tried "chkdsk k: /r" and I'm getting this error message:

The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.

What options do you guys think I have?

 

[Whiffen]

Well you can try the other thing I gave you. Remember you can only salvage 4 folders from it though. Just take out the most important things and I'll continue to look for something else. Its hard to find freeware that can do this.

 

[jcroot]

Well you can try the other thing I gave you. Remember you can only salvage 4 folders from it though. Just take out the most important things and I'll continue to look for something else. Its hard to find freeware that can do this.

Thanks for your reply and help!

What I'm doing now is just recovering all my important files with the software you gave me. So far so good, is working, it coudn't save some files but that's ok.

 

[jcroot]

why not just buy her a DVD and put in the lap top to put windows on it, of course u would still have to fix u're hard drive.

I have an external DVD/CD room but I couldn't get the laptop to boot from this external device. Thanks for your comment.