Oh man im having hard drive problems again, this time it seems really bad
im getting an
ERROR: "File or directory is corrupt and unreadable"

when trying to acces the drive, and am getting

ERROR: "Corrupt Master File Table"

When trying to run CHKDSK thhrough CMD.

Im out of ideas, If anyone can help me I would really apprechiate it,
Thanks Guys
SocomIII

OH yeah i have no OS on this drive just Important Info, i want to backup this info to another hard drive and then later just reformat and back to everything normal,

that it, your hard drive has had it, time for a new one, and to be on the safe side, get a new data cable to, either sata, or ide, just incase

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lol your porbably right,but i had a few important files one here that i really want to back up..
I have googled for hours but most i can some up with is windows 2000 solutions

just get another hard drive in the system, copy what i can acorss, then dump the hard drive...only thing you can do tbh

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yeah thats what i want to do, but how can i acess my files, i cant do it through windows i get the first error i posted.
Maybe linux but i have no idea how to "mount Hard drives"
THANKS

Hi SocomIII

I myself have had my fair share of problematic HDDs in the past, but the error's that you are getting are way over the top, as to any that i have ever had, there are two word's that come to mind?? Rubbish Bin??

Can you not access the dirve at all ?

I doubt if there is any wya to take off the files, that you so want??
? have you got another pc, if so take the originalHDD out of your spare pc, and pop in the one with the error's?? and see if you can access the files that you want from it to the other pc, and then get rid of the drive>>> and pop your other original back in?? If you have another PC that is :-D

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I do have another PC after doing what you suggest i could not acces the files got the same error message, but after that i managed to find an utility called GetDataBack from NTFS and after listing about 1 000 000 numbers (lol) it finnally worked and showed me all the files on the drive, it then allowed me to copy them onto my master drive..
I am now going to reformat the drive and see how that goes..
Thanks for the help guys..

that drive is BROKEN ...do NOT use it again, unless you want to LOOSE any data you put on it

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had the same error once,I just used a recovery tool and saved the data to another drive and then reformated the HDD that had the error...lasted me another 5 years. It's just lost it's "TOC" so to say that's all.

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Hi punqewe

Hard drives can be strange things, when they start to falter, ti can happen anytime, and can be very annoying,, but as you state punqewe getting another five year's comes in really handy :-D

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