[Dark Age Iron Savior]

as some of you have probably noticed, we here at DAIS Posting Incorporated have been going through a period of........transition.

As with every transition, there have been...trifles and troubles. Oh, that's clever! No, no it isn't.

Returning to the point: there are two drives in computer of Win XP in question. drive second was added for extra space for things, and split into three: big ntfs, decently large fat32, decently large fat32. due to patracking ratpacking packratting, there was about <4gb left on each (of 80,20,20), with some torrents in the process of processing.

Then, magically, roughly, hm, 60-70gb of files disappears from three folders on ntfs. Space is still apparently allocated, but:

1! folder is in ruins, bearing only about 3% of the content it had before the "vanishing". A devastated landscape!
2! folders are giving errors that tell me the drive is not formatted, would I like to format it now, what do you mean we're part of a larger drive that is acting otherwise normal, we are unformatted and that is that.

chkdsk chks and says "what the fuck, I don't know what the fuck is up with this shit, leave me the fuck out of it".

So we're I'm^H^H^H POSTER WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP YOU CAN OFFER RE QUALITY FREE OR COMMERCIAL PROGRAMS THAT:

*Assess the health and consistency of a hard disk drive/it's folders
*Analyze, diagnose and suggest possible treatments for such problems as mentioend above
*Assist in the restoration and reconstruction of the files and folders that have gone mysteriously AWOL
*Another A thing goes here

All help is very, very welcome. This is a desperate problem. Certain things are ticking down just as other things are ticking up. It is a delicate time.



(re: tangrams

you may laugh sawtooth

but what was found will change the everynothing

it is so big, I am afraid of it

it is so big, we are all afraid of it)

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

DAISy, when was the last time you defragmented that drive? Torrenting does terrible things for file continuity.
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[EmX]

DiskKeeper is pretty good about managing the MFT in NTFS by expanding and defragging it to prevent it from taking a shit. The MFT has fucked over a couple of my partitions in the past, as well.

I'm sort of at a loss as far as data recovery programs are concerned, though.

[km]

Sounds like the drive is dying so before you start accessing it, disconnect it and figure out what exactly you are going to do and get everything as ready as possible before you hook it back up.

That said, I have has very good luck with GetDataBack for recovering data from messed up drives/partitions

You're going to want to get a new hard drive to copy all this junk on to though, since I would never trust that drive to work right ever again.
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[falsedan]

DAIS there was this program that I recommended to you last time something like this happened: PC File Inspector Recovery

I have rescued dead disks in the past; basically I used a bunch of Linux action
Found a box with a huge drive and stuck the dodgy disk in there
made a disk image of the dodgy drive
made a copy of the disk image
fsck'ed the disk image until I could mount it
copied all the data to a safe place
threw the disk away
KEPT THE DISK IMAGE AND ANOTHER 100GB OF USELESS CRAP THAT I JUST REMEMBERED I SHOULD DELETE
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]