heres my problem.. i have a 3 gig P4 with windows 2000 server.. 2 physical hard drives both on the primary ide.. a maxtor 80 GB with my OS on it and a western digital 200 GB with all my important files stored on it.. well a few days ago i started getting errors that said my files r unreadable and corrupt.. this continued happening till i got so many i had to restart the computer.. after starting back up i went to that drive in explorer and i noticed the volume label was now gone.. and when i clicked on it i got this error g:\ is not accessible the parameter is in correct.. i tried chkdsk and it did not work.. i noticed that it says there is no file system anymore.. i took the drive out and put it in my other computer and it asked me if i wanted to format it.. so i put it back in the old computer and it still didnt work so then i tried about 6 different data recovery programs and recovered about 20 files out of hundreds of thousands.. i have another WD 200 GB with an exact copy of everything that was on that drive i keep as a backup.. i hooked that one up to the secondary ide and started burning all of it onto dvds.. when i almost had everything copied.. my windows explorer froze up for some reason and i had to restart.. when i went to the backup drive in explorer i noticed that one also had no volume label anymore.. when i clicked on it i got the same error.. i tried to recover that drive but i got nothing at all this time.. thank god i copied most all of my files to dvd.. i thaught i could never lose my files since i have so much backup but this is insane... the biggest problem now is that i dont know whats causing this.. is it my OS or is it bad hard drives?? ive done quite a few virus scans with 2 antivirus programs.. norton and bit defender and everything came up clean.. i also ran a few hard drive tests and they all said my drives were working ok... what is the deal? can somebody please help me ive tried everything and searched everywhere online.. i dont know what to do anymore!!
parameter is incorrect??
- Thread starter andrew
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The parition table or MBR or both are toasted. Since you've already done the data recovery stuff yourself, the odds of a successful profesional recovery are damn near toasted too.
Format and start over ... you could goto professionals if you REALLY wanted to try
You should probably take it as "i've waited not even a day and nobody has dropped everything to run and help me"
haha well thanx for the response.. ive posted on other boards and gotten a few replies.. but some.. nothing.. so im jsut wondering if the problem is just over a lotta peoples heads.. thats all.. i know how these message boards work too as more gets posted the posts start dropping off the page unless somebody adds a reply so i jsut wanted to keep it up there.. but anyways i was able to recover everything off my backup drive now for some reason it worked a while later.. i know its something to do with the file table.. but my real question is whats causing this and if i completely repartition the drive and all that would it still be good.. i did a 0 erase on it and repartitioned it and its in my other computer for now.. ill see how it goes...
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