One of my drive is not opening

[jashanpreet]

Hello,
Hi
I have a Hard disk as result of that I have many drives in my

computer (C, D, E, F, G, H and I), one of my drive (G)does

not show the size of space on it and when I tried to open it ,

it say that the drive is not formatted and do you want to

formatted...
I have most of my work in that drive (G)and I can't format

it. May you help me tell me to open the drive without

formatting please and I will be grateful to you.

 

[Saga Lout]

Hello and welcome to Tom's Hardware Forums.

Use your XP CD to boot the sysstem and select the first Repair option. At the Command Prompt, type chkdsk /r and let the five stage process run its course. Using the /r switch will tell the system to find and fix any disk errors.

If that doesn't do it, there is a risky procedure that I've used several times. When asked to formatx the disk select yes and tick for a quick format in NTFS. As soon as that is finished, download Recuva from http://www.piriform.com and use it to recover whatever data it can. It sounds drastic but you have few other choices.

 

[mrfatbox]

If that doesn't do it, there is a risky procedure that I've used several times. When asked to formatx the disk select yes and tick for a quick format in NTFS. As soon as that is finished, download Recuva from http://www.piriform.com and use it to recover whatever data it can. It sounds drastic but you have few other choices.

cant say i have ever tried it but i like your thinking, might have to try that with a usb hdd that is in the same state

 

[Saga Lout]

I did it as recently as Wednesday and got away with it - again. There is a risk but in that circumstance, I retrieved 20.0Gb of pictures and music. I'm working on another one now where I've used a Linux Live CD to mount a laptop hard disk that Windows cannot. I'm copying out the entire Docs and Settings folders before doing anything else. In that case, I think ntfs.sys has fallen over so M$ can't see its own file structure.

I always post there's a risk to this and I haven't made it work with Rest2514 or other utilities except Recuva. I must stress that it has to be a quick format - that light skim over seems to be more easily recoverable.