Hi,

i have this SCSI drive that has a very strange case( HP 72.8GB), there was a data base file was lost on the drive that has become very hard to find
the computer froze and it was restarted after which it showed the database suspect, after another restart the database was no longer availlable and i got the folloing errors were captured in the event log.

1)
Event ID:7
Description:
the device, \ device\harddisk0\DRO, has a bad block


2)
Event id: 17055
Description:
5159:
Operating system error 23 [data error{cyclic redunduncy check}.] on device 'C:\program files \microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\NewBrokerknowAA_log.ldf' during forwardLogBlockReadAheadAsync.

hence the database file (NewBrokerknowAA_log .mdf & .ldf files) were no longer to be found.

the question is this file on question is about 2.5gb in size, how can it be that its not found inside the drive and no trases of this data has been found, no search by type or name has given the desired results.

how can this be

i have used these tools to aid my search
winhex
Getdataback
recover my files
stellar phonix

but yet none is found

i will greatly appriciate your opinion it may shed some light

regard

_________________
GEORGE NJOROGE
EAST AFRICAN DATA HANDLERS LTD
http://WWW.datarecovery.co.ke
Chiromo court chiromo road, Westlands
Nairobi Kenya
+254-20-3751400/2/7

You tried Easy Recovery Pro in raw mode?

ok wil do
but the bad area isnt as large and this file is about 2- 2.8gb how is that possible

_________________
GEORGE NJOROGE
EAST AFRICAN DATA HANDLERS LTD
http://WWW.datarecovery.co.ke
Chiromo court chiromo road, Westlands
Nairobi Kenya
+254-20-3751400/2/7

the os is still intact, if the drive is put back on the machine its in a very ok state and it will boot ok.

i tried using easy recovery raw recovery but it doesnt have sql ie (.mdf or ldf ) listed on the recovery files

hence it dosent recognise them.

am looking for a solution guyz that will say why you can miss a 2 gb file just like that

_________________
GEORGE NJOROGE
EAST AFRICAN DATA HANDLERS LTD
http://WWW.datarecovery.co.ke
Chiromo court chiromo road, Westlands
Nairobi Kenya
+254-20-3751400/2/7