I have a 200 GB Maxtor Harddrive running Win2K. The mother board crashed so I took this drive and installed it as a slave in my WinXp machine. Upon bootup, scandisk ran and it said it was deleting orphan files. It deleted all it could delete and the system boot up. I see the 200 GB slave drive but no files,just one big 98 GB partition and a bunch of FileXX.chk
I went to Microsoft help website, based on their recommendations I've tried to do a repair and that did not work, created a new folder called WINTEMP, loaded all the setup files and that did not work either.
The Hard drive (Maxtor) has 98 GB of something but I do not see a single file.
Am I alive or dead at this stage?
Dead
Sun, 2008-02-10 17:00 by admin
Sorry to have to tell you, but it is impossible to repair this. The reason is that the drive's folder and file structure is gone, and that cannot be recreated.