Clone that drive and then work on the clone with the file/drive recovery tools we noted at http://forums.cnet.com/7723-7588_102-354911/lost-and-found-or-the-storage-forum-sticky/?tag=contentBody;threadListing
Again, we never work on the actual last copy of the drive.
Bob
We have a Hitachi XL 1000 HDD which is giving the "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" error.
CHKDSK /F & /R show no errors and both give the correct volume name as HITACHI, whereas Windows Explorer shows it as E: Local Disk. A simple DIR in DOS produces the error again!
The standard disk-check utility closes without error, whether I check the tick-boxes for Automatically fix errors or not!
There are too many important files to write the disk off and we are desperate to get them back. We appreciate we will have to buy a new disk to transfer the data too upon retrieval.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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