Guest kwng Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 HI. I have a Dell PC P4 2.8GHz 1Gb DDR using Windows XP home edition. I have attached an USB external drive (maxtor) 60Gb to it for 2 years already. The external drive was formatted in NTFS and has no boot sector (no windows). Yesterday, I got a message from windows saying the drive is corrupted. I can see the drive (L:) in the windows explorer but when I clicked it, a message saying "L:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect." When I checked the drive properties, it says file system: raw. When I error check it, nothing happens. When I chkdsk l: , the message I got is "The type of the file system is NTFS. Warning! F parameter not specified. Running chkdsk in read only mode. Corrupt master file table. Chkdsk aborted. When I go to disk management, I can see the drive (L:) , Layout = Partition, Type = basic, File System = "blank", Status = healthy (active), Capacity = 57.26Gb, Freespace m= 57.26Gb %Free = 100% Fault tolerance = No. The drive should be about at least 45Gb full. I have a lot data inside which is backed up previously from my old PC and I desperately hope I can get these data back as much as possible. Please help.
Guest Andrew E. Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 RE: External drive NTFS file system corrupted To chk the drive,boot to xp cd,recovery,type:CHKDSK L: /R Once thru,type: EXIT Reopen in xp.Also,download maxtors MS-DOS drive chk utility,install to a MS-DOS formatted floppy,restart pc,boot to floppy,run the test(s)...Also, maxtors hds are good for only about 2 yrs (if that),so expect to find a hd on its last leg,youre better off next time purchasing a seagate hd,it carries a 5 year warranty,maxtors is 1 year... "kwng" wrote: > HI. I have a Dell PC P4 2.8GHz 1Gb DDR using Windows XP home edition. I have > attached an USB external drive (maxtor) 60Gb to it for 2 years already. The > external drive was formatted in NTFS and has no boot sector (no windows). > Yesterday, I got a message from windows saying the drive is corrupted. I can > see the drive (L:) in the windows explorer but when I clicked it, a message > saying "L:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect." When I checked > the drive properties, it says file system: raw. > > When I error check it, nothing happens. When I chkdsk l: , the message I got > is "The type of the file system is NTFS. Warning! F parameter not specified. > Running chkdsk in read only mode. Corrupt master file table. Chkdsk aborted. > > When I go to disk management, I can see the drive (L:) , Layout = Partition, > Type = basic, File System = "blank", Status = healthy (active), Capacity = > 57.26Gb, Freespace m= 57.26Gb %Free = 100% Fault tolerance = No. > > The drive should be about at least 45Gb full. I have a lot data inside which > is backed up previously from my old PC and I desperately hope I can get these > data back as much as possible. Please help.
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