HELP: lost HD partition woes...

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Andrew Wan

I have a USB portable HD. I was running a chkdsk command on it. I forgot
that I was running it and I shutdown my PC.

Next time I boot up and plug my USB portable HD to my PC, it asks to format
my USB HD. Has the partition tables been corrupted? How can I rescue my
portable HD partition again??? Please help!
 
If it wants to be formated chances are that the boot sector was lost.
Try TestDisk and see if you can recover or rebuild it.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

John

Andrew Wan wrote:
> I have a USB portable HD. I was running a chkdsk command on it. I forgot
> that I was running it and I shutdown my PC.
>
> Next time I boot up and plug my USB portable HD to my PC, it asks to format
> my USB HD. Has the partition tables been corrupted? How can I rescue my
> portable HD partition again??? Please help!
>
>
 
Re: lost HD partition woes...

possibly the ntfs crashed.

but certainly i avoid any
(any) attempt to write files
to it or format it.

see if the trial version of
"acronis disk director" can
scan it and reveal the contents
from your main hd

if so, then the software can
repair it the file system on
that hd.

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"Andrew Wan" <andrew_wan1980@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a USB portable HD. I was running a chkdsk command on it. I forgot that I
>was running it and I shutdown my PC.
>
> Next time I boot up and plug my USB portable HD to my PC, it asks to format my
> USB HD. Has the partition tables been corrupted? How can I rescue my portable
> HD partition again??? Please help!
>
 
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