Words you never want to see.

"Corrupt master file table, chkdsk aborted"

Ahhhhhh! it seems that the oddness that has been going on with my comp for the last couple of weeks has been caused by my secondary drive starting to die and it had now decided to fail.

So I went through my mental check list...
What was on the drive.....
Some program zips, some documents.

Not to bad. . . .
14GB of music... arse.
About 8GB of it not backed up...shit.
35GB of video I was editing.....ARSE.

So after four hours searching the net I finaly found a solution that didn't involve me formating the drive. The ultimate boot cd, unfortunatly after running several of the diagnostic programs and repair programs and finding nothing wrong or nothing that could be repaired I returned to the internet for a solution.
I then came across a guy talking about a piece of recovery software (cant remember the name) that was very good but a little pricey, great I thought but let's see how pricey.
｣1459.00 what the fuck!
errr I think that's a little excessive, I did find mention of another piece of software though that would do the same job (Restorer2000) It did however cost me ｣25 to buy.
Having said that it did do the job and found all the files which I started recovering, I then realised that I was trying to recover about 40GB of data to my main drive that had only 12GB of space on it so I had to franticly transfer files from my main drive to vickys in an attempt to free up some space. It did all go well though and I managed to recover all the data I had lost......phew!

Now if any of you buggers tell me how I could have done it for free I will scream.....if you do however have any links to those sorts of programs or technical instructions that my help others let me know and I will add them to my links page.
- posted by J @ 20:27