Hotshot Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread...6496#post356496 I put in a bootable HDD. When I booted my bad HDD (F:) said it was empty. So I restarted and windows did chkdsk, it did a billion things, example: Deleting orphan file record segment XXXX XXXX was increasing numbeers Correction in index $I30 in file etc, etc, etc. Now when I viewed my F: it says 40Gigs used, but when I click on it, there are only 4 folder and 1 file. Ctrl-a then propertices tells me there are only 60 files, 6 folders and 22.2MB used (57 of those files are just my nvidia drivers in one of the 4 folders).... What's the deal? I have over 500 hours of coding id rather not lose. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdLSmith Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Did you have Win XP on an Hdd that was installed on another machine? WIN XP gets real crapped out when you move an Hdd from one machine to another. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PL4YD34D Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 are they the same file systems? ie NTFS , FAT16/32. one wont recognise the other. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
naddie Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Be aware of the CHS/LBA/AUTO issue that the firmware is having. If it came from another machine, chances are that it is in LBA mode, so set the firmware accordingly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotshot Posted January 26, 2006 Posted January 26, 2006 Did you have Win XP on an Hdd that was installed on another machine? WIN XP gets real crapped out when you move an Hdd from one machine to another. Same machine, same win xp disk. Was done 1 week ago when I had this problem. What makes me FURIOUS is I made a folder named "backup" on this HDD and later transfered to c:/, that folder is MIA!! are they the same file systems? ie NTFS , FAT16/32. one wont recognise the other. Yes they are both NTFS. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumpman Posted January 26, 2006 Posted January 26, 2006 get a data recovery software and see if it finds something...there are a lot of demos out there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotshot Posted January 26, 2006 Posted January 26, 2006 ok I managed to get most of the files back (was in one folder, then many sub folders). Thank god. Restarting now so incd can kick in so I can back em up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotshot Posted January 26, 2006 Posted January 26, 2006 wow now my computer hangs on boot and incd does not even work... It never ends.... Ever... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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