ursellamcman Posted October 6, 2010 Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 I found some really old zip disks and an external to run them. The first disk i tried had some very old files of mine on it that i'd long forgotten. not bothering to open them, i tried out the other disks. the rest were blank. When i put the first one back in to copy the files, windows could no longer read it. The drive made the click and hum of not being able to read it, and windows complained "The disk is not formatted." and a "cyclic redundancy check"What could have happened in that brief time for the disk to become unreadable/unaccessable? It was only a half hour. More importantly, how can i recover what is on the disk? surely it's still there, but i want to suspect that windows messed up how when ejecting it. I've tried some disk repair programs but the computer says the disk wont allow access. I'm open to all ideas and solutions to try to see those old files again. i should have copied them the first time it was still open.___________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 10, 2010 Report Share Posted October 10, 2010 You may just have been lucky the first time you inserted the disk, that you were able to see some things on it. The "cyclic redundancy check" indicates that the disk is damaged. The only thing I can think of is running CHKDSK against that disk, in the hope of restoring its integrity. But the "cyclic redundancy check" indicates hardware damage, rather than just corrupted data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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