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The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/the-file-or-directory-is-corrupted-or-unreadable.77389/

a_tif
a_tif Original post #1
Jan 4, 2008 at 11:10 PM
MY partition is not accessiable :(

The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable

thats the message i get

all others drives on the hdd r working

i used the drive in afternoon , and now its not working :(


some1 pls suggest a way to recover the partition

look at these

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slugger
slugger #2
Jan 5, 2008 at 3:01 AM
schedule an error checking task in next boot 4 d drive

BTW how old is d HDD on which u got d drive?
a_tif
a_tif #3
Jan 5, 2008 at 7:33 AM
its a brand new hdd, i got it a week ago. 250 GB sata Seagate

pc hanged yesterday n seems MFT has corrupted

i cant use chkdsk cause windows is detecting partition as RAW

its a 170 GB partion i was using to backup from my old hard drive to shift to this new hard drive

but now all backup is stuck
V
vaibhavtek #4
Jan 5, 2008 at 8:17 AM
load PartitionMagic and see whether it is RAW or not.
a_tif
a_tif #5
Jan 5, 2008 at 9:54 AM
i have paragon hard disk manager it says it is NTFS with 55 GB of Data
a_tif
a_tif #6
Jan 5, 2008 at 8:08 PM
after so many recovery softwares failed to recover anything i found Ontrack easy recovery n managed to recover 40 GB of important data

rest is duplicate so didnt waste time to recover that

formatted the partition

now m :)