I used to be fairly good at rescuing data, but this was in the DOS days. Now, things are orders of magnitude more complex.
Remember, now I'm only able to see into the old H-disc via W7 on another physical drive.
The old drive C is termed H, but this has always been so whilst in new drive mode.
Some of the folders show as normal. Some even show a few thumbnails of the pics. Just a few, leaving the black pic thumbnail where a pic used to be.
Any attempt to copy any of them usually fails. eg, after 15 mins, I got ONE picture in the 'Emergency folder.'
I was warned. Ever since I fitted two physical drives, (18 months) I've occasionally got a CHKDSK routine on full start up. I took this to be something I had to live with by switching between drives at BIOS level. Lately this had gone away. But it may just have been a forewarning of what was to come.
I'm off to try creating another folder, but not very hopeful, as the windows folder is totally un-getatable.
No, thanks, but it merged the folders, but didn't improve the contents. It's so strange that in a few cases it can show the thumbnails. There they are, loud and clear, but then the system 'cant find' or 'corrupt' etc pops up when I try to view them.
Some folders report empty when I know there's pic in them. It's chaotic.
Gone 4pm here. I'm off to swim with the kids....that's if me @#$%^#$ Mercedes can cover a mile without have to be towed home. I dunno...telly, low millage car, computer all total junk ... I'm jinxed.
True about the car. 33k and its had three total "STOP! and convey to workshop" breakdowns in as many months.
Last edited by Loose rivets; 10th July 2009 at 21:24.