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dilbert firestorm

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Dec 8, 2009, 11:47:40 PM12/8/09
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a little back story... actually a refesher post as I've posted this a
good while back, put it this way, I'm a big time procrastinator. sigh....

Fall of 2007, I was in the process of transfering files from the 15gb
drive to the bigger 250gb drive in my OS/2 machine, and noticed that the
15gig drive appeared to be failing and chkdsk issues with the. Got
around to contacting I365, a seagate subsidary that recovers data in
february 2008, couldn't do that, a death in the family put it off.
Finally in February 2009, I finally sent the drive to I365 to have the
data recovered and was returned to me on a new replacment SATA hard
drive. I didn't get a chance to put it the new drive into the OS/2
machine until last week. I put the Addonics SATA-SCSI adapter on the
SATA hard drive. Everything seemed to work fine.

When I checked the hard drive, it still had chkdsk issues. So that
means I have a corrupted block of data somewhere on the hard drive.
anyone know how to fix this?

this is what chkdsk says.

The current hard disk drive is: L:
The type of file system for the disk is HPFS.
The HPFS file system program has been started.
SYS0590: CHKDSK found data in a temporary relocation sector.
SYS0590: CHKDSK found data in a temporary relocation sector.
CHKDSK is searching for lost data.
CHKDSK has searched 100% of the disk.
CHKDSK corrected a disk space allocation error.
CHKDSK relocated data from a bad block to another place on the disk.

I ran chkdsk a few times, and got the same result.

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Jim Moe

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Dec 9, 2009, 12:59:04 AM12/9/09
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On 12/08/09 09:47 pm, dilbert firestorm wrote:
>
> When I checked the hard drive, it still had chkdsk issues. So that
> means I have a corrupted block of data somewhere on the hard drive.
> anyone know how to fix this?
>
"chkdsk l: /f:2" or even "/f:3"

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dilbert firestorm

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Dec 9, 2009, 1:10:28 AM12/9/09
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Jim Moe wrote:
> On 12/08/09 09:47 pm, dilbert firestorm wrote:
> >
> > When I checked the hard drive, it still had chkdsk issues. So that
> > means I have a corrupted block of data somewhere on the hard drive.
> > anyone know how to fix this?
> >
> "chkdsk l: /f:2" or even "/f:3"
>
>
ok, I'll try that.

dilbert firestorm

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Dec 9, 2009, 2:03:00 AM12/9/09
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Jim Moe wrote:
> On 12/08/09 09:47 pm, dilbert firestorm wrote:
> >
> > When I checked the hard drive, it still had chkdsk issues. So that
> > means I have a corrupted block of data somewhere on the hard drive.
> > anyone know how to fix this?
> >
> "chkdsk l: /f:2" or even "/f:3"
>
>
ok, tried that, didn't work.

Peter Brown

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Dec 9, 2009, 6:11:42 AM12/9/09
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Hi dilbert

dilbert firestorm wrote:
> Jim Moe wrote:
>> On 12/08/09 09:47 pm, dilbert firestorm wrote:
>> > > When I checked the hard drive, it still had chkdsk issues. So that
>> > means I have a corrupted block of data somewhere on the hard drive.
>> > anyone know how to fix this?
>> > "chkdsk l: /f:2" or even "/f:3"
>>
> ok, tried that, didn't work.
>


I think dfsee - www.dfsee.com - may be of help.

If you cannot work out how to fix the problem using the time restricted
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If that does not get the problem fixed I have no idea what would.

Regards

Pete

tho...@antispam.ham

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Dec 9, 2009, 11:59:19 AM12/9/09
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If you have enough free space on a different partition, copy
the data to that partition, then reformat the partition giving
you trouble, using the /L option. Then copy the data back to
the original partition. See if that works.

dilbert firestorm

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Dec 10, 2009, 9:36:49 AM12/10/09
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like this copy *.* /L??

does that work when the data is inaccessible?

Dave Yeo

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Dec 10, 2009, 10:49:01 AM12/10/09
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On 12/10/09 06:36 am, dilbert firestorm wrote:
> tho...@antispam.ham wrote:
>> If you have enough free space on a different partition, copy
>> the data to that partition, then reformat the partition giving
>> you trouble, using the /L option. Then copy the data back to
>> the original partition. See if that works.
>>
> like this copy *.* /L??
>
> does that work when the data is inaccessible?

I think he means xcopy x:\* y:\ /h /o /t /s /e /r /v
note only * not *.* so to catch files with no extension.
Then format /fs:hpfs /L x: or format x: /fs:jfs /L
Dave

tho...@antispam.ham

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Dec 10, 2009, 4:44:09 PM12/10/09
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dilbert firestorm writes:

>> If you have enough free space on a different partition, copy
>> the data to that partition, then reformat the partition giving
>> you trouble, using the /L option. Then copy the data back to
>> the original partition. See if that works.

> like this copy *.* /L??

No; the /L, or long format, option is for the FORMAT command.
Use the HELP command for more information.

dilbert firestorm

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Dec 10, 2009, 9:06:16 PM12/10/09
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of course, I misread.

dilbert firestorm

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Dec 10, 2009, 9:14:11 PM12/10/09
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ok, I got confused with the /l parameter. I should've picked up the
"reformat" bit and made the connection, alas I didn't.

now that being said, does it really with with the xcopy command on a
drive with inaccessible data? I'm skeptical. :( I run Dir and get a
message telling me to run chkdsk or soemething like that.

I prolly will have to run a chkdsk log to the files logged in. that way
if this xcopy command works, I'll have some data to compare with.

I do have another hard drive, but its a SATA drive and don't have
another addonics SATA-SCSI adapter, so I'll have to order one.

Dave Yeo

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Dec 11, 2009, 2:14:13 AM12/11/09
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On 12/10/09 06:14 pm, dilbert firestorm wrote:
> Dave Yeo wrote:
>> On 12/10/09 06:36 am, dilbert firestorm wrote:
>> > tho...@antispam.ham wrote:
>> >> If you have enough free space on a different partition, copy
>> >> the data to that partition, then reformat the partition giving
>> >> you trouble, using the /L option. Then copy the data back to
>> >> the original partition. See if that works.
>> >>
>> > like this copy *.* /L??
>> >
>> > does that work when the data is inaccessible?
>>
>> I think he means xcopy x:\* y:\ /h /o /t /s /e /r /v
>> note only * not *.* so to catch files with no extension.
>> Then format /fs:hpfs /L x: or format x: /fs:jfs /L
>> Dave
> ok, I got confused with the /l parameter. I should've picked up the
> "reformat" bit and made the connection, alas I didn't.
>
> now that being said, does it really with with the xcopy command on a
> drive with inaccessible data? I'm skeptical. :( I run Dir and get a
> message telling me to run chkdsk or soemething like that.

I don't really know, guess you'll have to test and report back.
Dave

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