[Windows 7] Scandisk corrupted my hard drive

[kimchongse]

I recently installed Windows 7 x64. When I plugged in my external USB drive, it brought up the scan disk box and said I should check for errors. Ran it, and later I found some of my folders/files were corrupted. Tried a couple unerase utilities to get my critical info back, and failed. So, I ran scandisk again. Now almost all the files read as corrupted and it asks me to format the hard drive. Help!

 

[Kewlx25]

I've never seen scandisk every ruin anything, but anything is possible.

First two ideas
#1. HD was about to fail anyway
#2. Scandisk exposed a problem and exasperated the issue when trying to fix it.

 

[kimchongse]

Any suggestions on how I can get my information back?

 

[manojgj]

get some good recovery software, it may help.

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