July 16, 2008

"bad file record signature" from partition magic chkdsk /f in recovery console reports unrecoverable errors


His past 2 ntfs 750GB SATA drives and I do not know why (perhaps overheating or bad psu?) Software data recovery works but requires 3 days for each hard copy!

Is there a faster way to restore readers? Is this the mft or boot sector or partition table? What is safe to restore or rebuild without losing the chance to make a slow recovery of data if all else fails?

And if you try Norton Disk Doctor to reboot? Can Spinrite solve this problem? What about partition table Doctor boot disk? Any
greatly appreciated the advice that I will afford to lose this data i do not have a backup with me.

Weirdly one of the disks an old xp boot partition and gives the same error and illegible except with the active participation @ File Recovery, but when I tried to boot from this disk xp repaired in some way the first (active) in a partition of a few minutes as he started and now it is ok, while the second logic (650GB!) partition is illegible, but still recoverable.
I suppose I need some sort of Super Hard Drive specialist!

2 comments:

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
As you do not have a backup copy of the reasonable thing to do would be to wait outside. But if you can not afford to do so spinrite is your only other option I can find.

If it was fixed before it could simply be the partition table giving a misreading because it is damaged in any way. Try setting internal disk.

Here is the download link:

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
Your linked to problems when you have large disk drive mainly in print.

Reinstall! haha, id think about your going to have to wait for that how long the program will even if it is going to work is a good thing! The chance of that side if you ask me.