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External drive corrupt because of unsave removal fixed!!

Aug 27, 2006 4:55PM PDT

I have a Maxtor 200 GB One Touch filled with music. I have had some problems with corrupted file clusters on the unit due to occasional unsafe removals (which in my opinion is a design failure of the USB 2.0 interface, why allow data get corrupted just because an external disk is disconnected?). But I have managed to exclude the corruped files up til I wasn?t able to acces the disk at all. Note that this is just due to a few unsafe removals in total!

I tested some data recovery programs but with no success. Then I read the advise from to test the chkdsk command. I entered
chkdsk [volumeHappy /r.
It took one weekend to go thorugh all data but now the disk is up running again.

Note: chkdsk [volumeHappy /f was no good in this case.

So all of you in despair due to unsafe removal - there is a solution.

Thank you for this forum! As someone said; Good Luck - pass it on..

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Fixing External Hard drive
Sep 2, 2006 4:47PM PDT

I read your problem and I have the exact same issue with a 300 g maxtor. Would you tell me exactly what you did to be able to recognize the drive

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check disk
Sep 20, 2006 10:53PM PDT

Well, as I wrote; I opened up a command promt and typed 'chkdsk [volume] /r'. This prerequisites that there is a letter assigned to the drive of course. The command will start the check disk program which will go through the disk requested. The result will be, above that the disk is accesable again, a folder that contains all the repaired files (that were corrupt due to the non-safe removal (grrr...this stupid USB 2.0 design, I hate it!). Those files you will have to put back to were they belonged on the disk.

I hope you will make it, else email me at tomasalmgren@yahoo.se. I'm happy to help.

good luck!! /Tomas