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Noz3001 · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: Hard Drive Errors

Yesterday (Friday 13th) one if my hard drives started to screw around and stopped working on windows.

Every time I tried to open it I got "Disk in drive D: is not formatted" etc, even though when I opened it on Ubuntu everything was still there.

Now I've tried again and this happens: (Note, I've re-installed windows at this point)

I've tried partition table fixers and used every hard drive recovery tool available but they can only access 2702mb of the disk out of 160gb.

Any help, ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I've lost almost 140GB of data here.

Summary:
- Hard Drive becomes inaccessible on Windows but not Ubuntu
- New partition arrives out of nowhere with 2GB of space.
- 157GB of the hard drive seems to physically disappear.
- Hard Drive becomes totally unavalable to OS's but not HDD recovery tools

Localhost · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject:

It is still there... Do this.

Boot the Ubuntu CD you have.

Open the terminal.

Type "sudo gparted" without the quotes (never use the quotes).

SKIP THE NEXT STEP IF THE ONE ABOVE IT WORKED!
If it doesnt open type "sudo apt-get install gparted". Follow what it says (basically just hit "Y" when it says to).

Now, it is installed. Type "sudo gparted".

It should show you all your partitions. The NTFS one is your windows partition. If you see like 150gb of unallocated memory, right click on the WINDOWS partition (not the unallocated) and click resize.

You should be able to set all the unallocated memory to the NTFS Windows Partition.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:

I would quit using it until you're ready to try recovery.

Noz3001 · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject:

gparted can only see the small 2gb partition. Confused

Localhost · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject:

Post a picture of gparted.

Noz3001 · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:11 am Post subject:

Heres what it shows:

Localhost · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:28 am Post subject:

That is the weirdest thing i have ever seen in my whole life...

You see where it says /dev/sda (2.64GB) and its a drop down menu?

Select that and see if you see the correct hard drive...

Noz3001 · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject:

Localhost · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject:

How big is this hard drive again?