Hi - am sure this is not the first post on this subject, but anyway...
I have a Windows 2000 PC which has four IDE hard drives: one for OS , one for video, one for audio and one for general backup.
Recently I discovered that the latter two drives had stopped responding (when I try to access them I get the error message: "(Drive):\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable").
I have tried swapping around IDE cables, etc, but this does no good. The drives do seem to have become corrupted (seems odd, though, for them both to go down at more-or-less the same time - they are of different ages and different manufacturing).
Does anyone know of, firstly, any Windows utilities (DOS?) that I can use to try to recover them, or any Freeware products that could help? Finally, if there are any recommendations for recovery products from vendors?
Perhaps the drives can be fixed easily - I hope so, as there is, inevitably, critical data on them...
Cheers & Happy New Year!
I have a Windows 2000 PC which has four IDE hard drives: one for OS , one for video, one for audio and one for general backup.
Recently I discovered that the latter two drives had stopped responding (when I try to access them I get the error message: "(Drive):\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable").
I have tried swapping around IDE cables, etc, but this does no good. The drives do seem to have become corrupted (seems odd, though, for them both to go down at more-or-less the same time - they are of different ages and different manufacturing).
Does anyone know of, firstly, any Windows utilities (DOS?) that I can use to try to recover them, or any Freeware products that could help? Finally, if there are any recommendations for recovery products from vendors?
Perhaps the drives can be fixed easily - I hope so, as there is, inevitably, critical data on them...
Cheers & Happy New Year!