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Update on backup HD
Jan. 4th, 2006 11:21 amWell.
Freezing might have done the trick, because as of the 28th of December, 2 of the 3 partitions on my external harddrive were perfectly readable, and the third, while recognized, was considered "not formated". So I poked my head around the internet and found a couple of suggestions for this issue; the one that worked, ultimately, was having TESTDISK repair the partition table so that windows could recognize it. And recognize it it did, because when I rebooted the computer, chkdsk said my volume was dirty (that slut), and is now stepping through every. single. file segment record to determine which ones are unreadable; as of the writing of this entry, so far they all are. Now, I'm not dispairing too much, because from what I've gleaned from the scant information on the net, the FSR being unreadable does not necessarily mean that my data is unrecoverable. I've also learned that there's at least one FSR for every file on that partition.
I have over 50GB worth of data on that drive ><
So, I ask anyone who knows more about computers than I do, 1) am I right about the relationship between FSR and the files? and 2) is there any way to stop CHKDSK while it's running?
Thanks.
Freezing might have done the trick, because as of the 28th of December, 2 of the 3 partitions on my external harddrive were perfectly readable, and the third, while recognized, was considered "not formated". So I poked my head around the internet and found a couple of suggestions for this issue; the one that worked, ultimately, was having TESTDISK repair the partition table so that windows could recognize it. And recognize it it did, because when I rebooted the computer, chkdsk said my volume was dirty (that slut), and is now stepping through every. single. file segment record to determine which ones are unreadable; as of the writing of this entry, so far they all are. Now, I'm not dispairing too much, because from what I've gleaned from the scant information on the net, the FSR being unreadable does not necessarily mean that my data is unrecoverable. I've also learned that there's at least one FSR for every file on that partition.
I have over 50GB worth of data on that drive ><
So, I ask anyone who knows more about computers than I do, 1) am I right about the relationship between FSR and the files? and 2) is there any way to stop CHKDSK while it's running?
Thanks.
