HELLO PEOPLE,

I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT MY HARD DRIVE.
IT IS THE SAME HARD DRIVE FROM 2007. WHICH I TALKED ABOUT SEVERAL YEARS AGO ON THIS FORUM WHEN I SAID THAT IT IS FAILING AND GENERATING BAD SECTORS. IN ANY CASE, THIS HARD DRIVE STILL WORKS, DESPITE IT HAD MANY BAD SECTORS SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND IT HAS EVEN MORE TODAY.

TODAY I AM ASKING ABOUT THE WINDOWS CHECK DISK ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM AND ABOUT REPAIRING THE NTFS (NEW TECHNOLOGY FILE SYSTEM).

SO, JUST LIKE IT HAS BEEN FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, I HAVE TO RUN CHECK DISK ON THIS DRIVE REGULARLY TO ISOLATE NEW BAD SECTORS AND PREVENT THE DATA LOSS.

BUT, NOW I AM FACING THE NEW PROBLEM. THE DRIVE HAS BECOME INACESSIBLE AGAIN WITH THE RAW PARTITION TYPE (THE ACTUAL PARTITION TYPE IS NEW TECHNOLOGY FILE SYSTEM [NTFS]) AND 0 BYTE SIZE. WINDOWS CHECK DISK IS USUALLY ABLE TO REPAIR THIS, BUT NOT TODAY. NOW, CHECK DISK FAILS AT THE STAGE 2 WHILE SCANNING UNINDEXED FILES TO RECONNECT TO THEIR ORIGINAL DIRECTORY. IT SIMPLY GENERATES THE UNSPECIFIED ERROR AND STOPS THE CHECK DISK.
ERROR IS: 6672732e637878.
I CALLED MICROSOFT TO SEE WHAT THE HECK 6672732e637878 MEANS AND THEY TOLD ME THAT IT MEANS THAT THE PART OF THE HARD DRIVE CAN NOT BE ACCESSED.

ANYWAY, DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THIS ERROR AND HOW IT CAN BE FIXED?

BUT WHAT I AM MOST INTERESTED TO KNOW IS, DO YOU KNOW OF ANY ALTERNATIVE TO WINDOWS CHECK DISK, ANY UTILITY WHICH CAN BE USED TO REPAIR THE NTFS (NEW TECHNOLOGY FILE SYSTEM)? I HAVE CHECKED OUT A FEW "ALTERNATIVE HARD DISK REPAIR PROGRAMS" FROM THE INTERNET, BUT ALL THEY OFFER IS AN USER INTERFACE FOR THE WINDOWS CHECK DISK. THEY SIMPLY RUN THE CHECK DISK PROGRAM IN THE BACKGROUND AND FAIL WITH THE SAME ERROR.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER REPIR TOOLS WHICH CAN REPAIR THE LOGICAL ERRORS IN THE NTFS PARTITION?


ALSO, I STARTED WORKING IN A COMPUTER COMPANY WHAT ALLOWS ME TO TAKE SOME COMPUTERS AND COMPUTER PARTS LIKE HARD DRIVES FROM THE OFFICE AND BRING THEM HOME. SO, SINCE MY HARD DRIVE WHICH IS IN MY COMPUTER HAS MANY BAD SECTORS, TO EASE THE REPAIR PROCESS, I MADE A BYTE BY BYTE PARTITION CLONE FROM THE MY ORIGINAL HARD DRIVE TO THE ONE I TOOK FROM MY COMPANY. THIS WILL ELIMINATE THE BAD SECTOR PROBLEMS. THE CLONED PARTITION SHOULD NOW HAVE ONLY THE LOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE NEW TECHNOLOGY FILE SYSTEM (NTFS), BUT NOT THE PHYSICAL BAD SECTOR PROBLEMS.

SO, I AM NOW ATTEMPTING THE REPAIRS ON THE CLONE, SO ON THE HARD DRIVE WHICH IS NOT FAILING AND WHICH DOES NOT HAVE ANY BAD SECTORS. SO, ALL I NEED IS SOME TOOL WHICH CAN REPAIR LOGICAL ERRORS IN THE NEW TECHNOLOGY FILE SYSTEM (NTFS). DO YOU KNOW OF ANY?


ALSO, SECOND PROBLEM IS DATA RECOVERY. I DO TAKE SOME REGULAR BACKUPS OF MY HARD DRIVE, EACH MONTH, EXCEPT FOR THE LAST 10-15 YEARS WHEN I AM TEMPORARY, WHILE DEVOTING MY RESOURCES TOWARD OPERATING SYSTEM EXPLORATIONS, DOING THEM ONCE A YEAR. SO, I HAVE A BACKUP OF MY HARD DRIVE FROM THE LAST YEAR.

NOW, HARD DRIVE HAS SOME MILLION OR SO OF IMPORTANT FILES. DURING THE LAST YEAR, I ADDED ONLY ABOUT A COUPLE OF THOUSAND FILES, WHICH IS NOT MUCH WHEN COMPARED TO ABOUT A MILLION FILES I HAD FROM PREVIOUS YEARS. NOW, THOSE COUPLE OF THOUSAND FILES ARE NOT BACK UPPED. I WOULD PREFFER TO RESTORE THEM, ALTHOUGH, I HAVE A MILLION MORE SIMILAR FILES, SO, IT IS NOT A BIG DEAL.

SO, I KNOW THAT THE FASTEST SOLUTION TO FIX THIS HARD DRIVE PROBLEM IS TO REFORMAT IT AND RESTORE FILES FROM THE BACKUP, BUT, THAT WOULD MEAN THOSE COUPLE OF THOUSAND OR SO FILES WOULD BE LOST. NOW, I DID PERFORM THE FULL FILE RESTORATION WITH THE TESTDISK UTILITY. IT RESTORED ALMOST EVERYTHING WHAT I HAVE ON THIS CLONED PARTITION. EVERYTHING EXCEPT THAT ONE FOLDER WHICH CONTAINED THOSE MILLION FILES. THAT IS DEFINITELY THE LARGEST FOLDER ON THE HARD DRIVE, IT CONTAINS A MILLION FILES IN ITSELF WHICH TAKE UP SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF GIGABYTES OF SPACE.

THAT FOLDER IS THE ONLY ONE WHICH WAS NOT RESTORED. NOW, I LISTED FILES AND FOLDERS IN THE TEST DISK PROGRAM AND IT DOES NOT SEE THIS FOLDER AT ALL. ALL OTHER FOLDERS ARE LISTED, AND ITS PARRENT FOLDER IS LISTED AND CAN BE OPENED IN TEST DISK, BUT NOT THIS FOLDER. I THOUGHT THAT IT MIGHT BE THAT THE TEST DISK DOES NOT SEE IT BECAUSE IT HAS EMOJIS IN ITS NAME, SO I HAVE CHECKED WITH MANY OTHER HARD DRIVE RESTORATION PROGRAMS AND NONE OF THEM SEES THAT FOLDER BUT THEY DO SEE AND ARE ABLE TO OPEN OTHER FOLDERS WHICH HAVE EMOJIS IN THEIR NAMES WHICH MEANS THAT IT IS NOT EMOJIS IN ITS NAME THAT CAUSE THE PROBLEMS, BUT RATHER THAT THIS FOLDER IS PROBABLY DELETED FROM THE FILE SYSTEM.

I CERTAINLY DID NOT DELETE THIS FOLDER, AND IT WAS EXISTING THE DAY BEFORE THE PARTITION GOT CORRUPTED. I KNOW FOR SURE BECAUSE THIS FOLDER IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOR ME, SINCE IT CONTAINS A MILLION OF FILES I USE EVERY DAY. SO I OPEN THIS FOLDER EVERY DAY AND I KNOW IT WAS THERE UNTIL THE PROBLEM.

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE WINDOWS CHECK DISK PROGRAM DELETED IT IN THE PROCESS OF REPAIRING THE HARD DRIVE?
AND CAN IT BE RESTORED?

I KNOW THAT THE FOLDER SHOULD BE IN THERE BECAUSE WHEN I LOOK AT THE FREE SPACE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PARTITION ON SEVERAL DISK RESTORATION UTILITIS, IT SAYS THAT THIS PARTITION HAS ONLY A FEW GIGABYTES OF FREE SPACE LEFT, WHAT IS CORRECT, SINCE IT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS BEFORE THIS PARTITION GOT CORRUPT. IF THIS FOLDER IS REALLY DELETED, THEN THE MOST OF THE HARD DRIVE WOULD BE EMPTY, SINCE THIS FOLDER CONTAINS HUNDREDS OF GIGABYTES OF DATA. SO, IT IS STILL THERE.

DATA FROM IT ARE STILL THERE, BECAUSE IF I DO A RAW SCAN OF THE PARTITION WITH THE DATA RECOVERY SOFTWARE, I CAN SEE THE FILES THAT USED TO BE IN THIS FOLDER POP UP IN THE RESULTS, AND ARE FINE. SO, THEY ARE NOT OVERWRITTEN OR ANYTHING. JUST THE FOLDER APPEARS TO BE REMOVED FROM THE FILE TABLE OF THE FILE SYSTEM.

NOW, BY USING THE RAW SCAN I CAN FIND ALL FILES THAT USED TO BE IN THIS FOLDER AND RECOVER THEM INCLUDING THOSE COUPLE OF THOUSAND OF NEW FILES I DO NOT HAVE BACK UPPED.
THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT THIS FOLDER CONTAINS A MILLION FILES AND I WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THEM TO FIND THOSE WHICH WERE ADDED TO THIS FOLDER WITHIN THE LAST YEAR. TO DO THAT, SINCE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A MILLION FILES HERE, I WOULD NEED TO SPEND MORE THAN A MONTH OF MY LIFE OF THE WHOLE DAY WORK TO GO THROUGH ALL FILES AND FIND THE ONES I AM LOOKING FOR. I CAN NOT SIMPLY RESTORE ALL FILES BECAUSE SINCE THEY ARE FOUND IN THE RAW SCAN MODE, THEY DO NOT HAVE THE DIRECTORY INFORMATION, SO, ALL FILES FROM THE WHOLE DISK, INCLUDING THE DELETED ONES, WILL BE RESTORED TO THE SAME DIRECTORY. I DO NOT NEED THE FILES FROM OTHER DIRECTORIES, I DO NOT NEED THE ONES I DELETED, AND I DO NOT NEED THE ONES OLDER THAN A YEAR SINCE THOSE ARE CONTAINED IN THE BACKUP WHICH HAS A HIGHER TRUST LEVEL THAT THEY ARE NOT CORRUPT THAN THE ONES I RESTORE FROM THE HARD DRIVE RESTORATION. SO, I WANT TO ISOLATE ONLY THOSE COUPLE OF THOUSAND FILES.

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THAT? OR IS IT POSSIBLE TO UNDELETE THIS FOLDER SO THAT RESTORATION UTILITIES LIKE TEST DISK WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE IT AND RESTORE ALL FILES FROM IT?

THANK YOU.

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YBY

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