I recently booted Windows 2000 Pro and CKDSK started renaming files,
then would NOT load Windows. I put the drive in another PC as slave to
diagnose the problem. Windows says the drive needs to be formatted. I
ran EasyRecovery Pro on the drive (Maxtor 200GB) and I can see a lot of
folders (ie DIR42.MP3, DIR55.AVI, DIR74.ZIP etc). These folders
contain files, some valid, some not.

What's the best approach to recovering my data?

Also, some of the .AVI files are twice as large, like 200MB files have
increased to 528MB. Oddly, they play perfectly.

cope242 <waxtrax242@hotmail.com> wrote:

Having a proper backup before the drive dies.

There isnt much that does much better than ERP now.

Most likely chkdsk managed to join a couple of AVIs together
and the first one plays fine, the other is just ignored.

Try use EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 3.0 to recover lost data.
Download demo version: http://www.easeus.com/download.htm

You can use "AdvancedRecovery" to scan your corrupted partition. After
the scan is complete, the lost file will be displayed in Data Recovery
Wizard, you can select them and recover them.