Hello any NTFS gurus,

I don't know what happened, but I left my 2 NTFS drives both 120 gb to copy
a file (20gb) from one to the other. The one drive has 2 drives partition K
& L and the other drive was one partition. Drive M.
I came back home and found my windows 2000 system was re-booted and when I
looked at the drive tree k&l where no where to be seen and M looked fine,
but when I tried to open a folder I got " error inpage" and nothing would
open or be accessible. I rebooted and ran chkdisk on M:. It found a file
size error and fixed and the drive came back and files and folders worked. I
copied a couple of crucial files, since now I don't now trust the drive.
When I re-booted it to see if I could locate the K & L drive with disk
manager. The M drive now came up as "local disk" and is not accessible and
keeps asking me if I want to format. Which I say no to. I don't care what
happened. I just want to get my files back on both drives. I suspect
something has gone wrong with file system structure on the M: drive and a
partition error on the K&L: drive.
How do I go about fixing this ? These are not boot drives either so ERD
(which I have it ) doesn't seem to help this problem. Any insight greatly
appreciated !

Thank You,
Phoenix
Any help please e-mail me at
phoenixmorgan@hotmail.com
p.s. this has happened before on 2 fat32 and 1 NTFS drives for me when
Norton diskdoctor crashed doing a drive fix. I took them in to a local
computer store and for $250 they guy used a bit map editor. moved
something's around and wham! all files and directories where back. So I know
that somehow there is a fix. If I have to go that route I will, but really
need to save the bucks since its 2 drives this time !!! Thank You for any
assistance

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:45:04 GMT, paladin2112 wrote:

Get that sometimes, so far recoverable.

<snip>

When I did have a different problem, this recovered everything. It was 3
x 10GB partitions. Although only used once it's going on my essential
toolkit list from now on as a just in case.

GetDataBack for NTFS
http://www.runtime.org/

Do not install on any drive you need to recover data from, if you can't
do that. Buy a new disk(s) with enough space to recover on to , install
windows and GetDataBack then set old drives to slaves.

I ran that (free download is read only) , found it could see what I
needed to recover paid for a key and in 5 minutes was recovering the
data.

Me