Posted: 7/9/2005 8:25:29 AM EDT
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I have a 160gb 133 ide drive I put in an external enclosure. Seems some of the photos I backed up on it are 'damaged'. They are sort of mixed around, like different parts of the jpegs were written wrong and mixed up. Definately screwed up. The original jpegs are on another hard disk and are not damaged so it is this drive or how they are being copied to it (cut and paste). SO is the whole drive damaged? Figure I should just scrap it? Also I was thinking maybe it's the enclosure? Would Reformatting help at all? |
Run 'cmd' from XP/NT (this will put you into a DOS prompt) type: chkdsk /r x: where X = letter of your external hard drive This will do a 5? level scan of the drive and fix any errors. NOW: Is this a removable external HD? How exactly are you disconnecting the drive? Do you "eject" or "remove" it via 2000/XP's My Computer or external devices utility? Or are you pulling the USB cable? Do a soft remove first ALWAYS or you will corrupt the data. If this is a fixed IDE HD that you installed outside of the box, how long is your IDE cable? |