The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable

[m_ceberus]

Hello everyone,

First time here and I am hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction.

First off I am running XP SP2 and I have 2 hard drives on my pc. The primary hdd contains my OS and the secondary (slave) is my storage unit.

My internal storage unit operated fine until a week ago. When I tried to access some files by going through win. explorer, I received an error message that simply stated "D: is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." Same message if I try to access through the command prompt.

I attempted to run chkdsk which returned the message
"The type of the file system is NTFS.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted."

It works on my primary drive though. I thought maybe it was a drive sector gone awry, so i flobo'd the drive but no errors were to be found.

MFT maybe? Not sure. I did manage to utilize Ontrack and rescued some critical files. They are all there according to Ontrack, just cant access them. Is there anyway I can restore the functionality of my storage unit? (without having to transfer to my primary drive since it is smaller in comaprison, i.e. 40GB divided into 4 partitions,xp & 2 linux OS, versus my 200GB storage unit).

Thank you in advance for any assistance you can lend.

[m_ceberus]

I thought as much since i saw that my original file system was no longer intact, i.e. it spontaneously changed from NTFS to RAW. I do not know why it did that but it just happened from one night powering off to the next day's boot.

Thanks