persianpower Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 hi i have a secondary hdd on my comptoday it crashed big timeits a maxtor 91531U3 15GB HDD with 1KB cluster size smart enabledi have xp pro sp1i was running dr divx and suddenly it crashed (the dr, divx). I dont know how dr divx could be related but dr divx was processing a large video file on the drive thats now crashedi tried running CHKDSK but it failed to proceed after rebootit says CHKDSK cannot proceed MASTER FILE TABLE corruptioncoming back to windowsit wont let me see the contents of the drivesays D:\is not accessiblethe disk structure is corrupted or unreadableright clicking on properties shows 0 bytyes used 0 bytes freei had over 10GB of mp3 and video files on this drive?this happened once before but CHKDSK fixed itwhats happened now?is my data retrievable?am i forced to reformat this drive?can i do anything in dos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 First and foremost, and probably most importantly, what filesystem is the drive (FAT32 or NTFS)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4may Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Maybe Nortons Disk Doctor can help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Persianpower have a look at this post.http://www.windowsforum.org/forum/index.ph...topic=17076&hl= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draggin Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 Pop over to the Maxtor web site, they have a boot disk which you candownload and use to test the hard disk it will tell you if there is a physical problem with the disk.Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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