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[ShLoNkY]

Ok so I have quite the mp3 collection @ over 2500 full length CDS in which i have been collecting for years. About 50% of which is all good sh*t. I have all my CDs on one drive and only have about 10% of it backed up on DVDs cuz I'm retarded and lazy. A few days ago i clicked on my drive and it said "unable to read directory is corrupt or unreadable." I wasnt too worried at the time, cuz I just figured that I'd reboot and all would be well. It was not. After trying everything in my bag of tricks (different cables, IDE channels, maser slave CS etc) I came to the conclusion that the drive was actually f*cked.

I read into data recovery software for like 5 minutes and downloaded the "free" version of an app called "GetDataBack NTFS." After making it the not free version, I ran it and recovered almost everything that I had lost.

Untill I looked into it, I wasnt aware that there was software out there that could help you recover data. Makes sense that only part of the HDD was actually corrupt and windows doesnt know any better. I think I'm going to spend a few hours burning DVDs

I am assuming that if i format my drive that it will still be fine?? Does anyone have any experience with this?? Im goin to get a new drive anyways, but it would be nice if the one i have is still ok.

[Sniprwulf]

I know this is old, but there was no response.

As you've seen, when your computer deletes data, it doesnt really delete it. It just takes the space that it was using up and makes it usable for other things to be stored. So unless you store something else there, technically its still not deleted. On a side note, when formatting, there's two types. The quick formate basically just does the free space thingy. A long full format actaully goes in and erases everyblock of memory and completely wiping out your harddrive.

But yeah, I'm guessing if you format your harddrive it'll correct it. Did it?

[ShLoNkY]

It did fix it after I formatted. (not the quick one). The drive seems to work just fine now. I am assuming a small part of the drive got corrupted and windows is stupid and told me my whole drive is screwed. I got another drive anyways (200gb 8mb cache for $39 a/r at Compuseless) as I dont trust the one that got corrupted. I may actually transfer all my data from my 160gb drive to my new 200, then format the 160 and use that for new sh*t. Its probably not a bad idea to format drives every coupla years to try and prevent what happened to me. I have added and deleted so much sh*t in 3 years it is rediculous.

[ghozy]

as far as i know when you make the long format, OS marks the bad sectors as not-usable. so windows dont use those areas on your HD.

[nachos18]

how much Gs of music u have?

[ShLoNkY]

how much Gs of music u have?

A lot. 160 GB or something like that. ALL full cds. I think I am going to sort it out and delete a lot of sh*t though. I even have stupid stuff like: Yanni and soundtracks to Disney movies. I dont really think I need that for anything.