Hey guys !

Great forum . You even have a fun area - awesome .

First of all , excuse my english since I'm from a small country in Europe.....

So , here comes my problem:

I have an external drive , a Maxtor 500 GB .
Only Fotos and Videos stored on it . (CR2 , JPG , AVI , MTS )
I used Crystal Disk , which returned the Error Code '2 pending sectors' .
I checked with many other tools , including the one from the manufactors --> ALL Tools said the HDD has
no problem .
So , back then I realized that a few videos were corrupted ; meaning they will play 1-2 minutes and the close.
I found a tool , called HDD Regenerator , bought it , and the Check showed me 1 bad sector .
So I did the Check&Repair Run and suddenly there was no bad sector any longe .
Back then I mounted the drive , and suddenly some folders were not accessable any longer
I did chkdsk [Drive:] /x /f to grant exclusive access and to find errors .
Now I can see all the files again , but the files out of the folders i could no access are mostly dead (like 2 work out of 150) .
My last try , which is currently running consists again of the command chkdsk but this time with an additional /r at the end .
Funny thing is that CrystalDrive and all other tools now have no problem with the drive and tell me
he should work excellent .

Please anyone that has good ideas or can help me....pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaseeeeee !!!!!

Greetings from Austria , silenzioso

You've probably corrupted your filesystem by running so many utilities. Have you tried running any data recovery utilities? If not I'd recommend you download a free demo of R-Studio:

http://www.r-tt.com/downloads/SESPLXVCT ... d_en_3.exe

Scan the drive. If it sees the files you should be able to recover them (after then buying the software).

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Blame HDD REGENERATOR.

We do not use such methods for a reason.

Most probably, due to writing data on same disk, consistency of your files is compromised , in short.

I have another idea but it would have 50% chances or less.

thank you so much guys !!!


what comes to your mind ?

Scan the drive (raw recovery) and manually see if you find again what you want.

You get your data back?

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Data Medics - Hard Drive, SSD, and RAID Data Recovery Service Company

not yet , but i'll try in a few hours