ive just corrupted my hard drive

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Yay for me.

I was trying to install linux on my 2nd hd and it froze midstream so I rebooted. On load up, windows did this automatic recovery thing for the files on my hard drive.

Now when I try open any video files, nothing happens. Only certain picture files will open. Only certain word document files will open.

Ive tried copying the broken files to my other hard drive to see if they will work but had no such luck.

Is there anything I can do?

Dont fancy losing 500gig of tv, movies, work, backups etc :'(

Note. Mp3's work for some reason ;x

 

[Overdriven]

system recovery and windows repair.

PS: Less spamming me links to your problems on MSN!

 

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nope ;(

 

[TdC]

hmm it's almost as if windows was using the drive, or you accidentally installed linux onto the wrong one, or the bootloader got messed up and put in the wrong place. after doze tried to repair itself, files not opening seems to me like the definitions of what files gets opened with what program seems to be messed with.

if your movies aren't opening, you may want to try reinstalling VLC, or whatever you use, if that works, try the same for whatever else seems to be borked.

if windows can still actually "see" the disk and it's contents, then something else may have happened, but anyway, to me it seems that windows was using the drive for stuff.

 

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hmm it's almost as if windows was using the drive, or you accidentally installed linux onto the wrong one, or the bootloader got messed up and put in the wrong place. after doze tried to repair itself, files not opening seems to me like the definitions of what files gets opened with what program seems to be messed with.

if your movies aren't opening, you may want to try reinstalling VLC, or whatever you use, if that works, try the same for whatever else seems to be borked.

if windows can still actually "see" the disk and it's contents, then something else may have happened, but anyway, to me it seems that windows was using the drive for stuff.

Ive tried copying my files from my D drive to my C drive to see if that was the problem but they dont seem to work.

 

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I think its dead weird how I can open some jpeg files and see previews but not others. Also my word documents, I can only open some of them. With some of the others I get a message which says it cannot be read and gives me a load of text I cant understand. My music folder seems to work fine, and can play them both with winamp and vlc :s

 

[TdC]

Ive tried copying my files from my D drive to my C drive to see if that was the problem but they dont seem to work.

erm, the way I am reading that you're saying that there are files on the drive you were trying to install a linux on that you can still see and want to use? Maybe it's late, but I don't get it you were trying to install on a drive you had configured for use with windows, with your stuff on it?

Sorry if I'm missing something but it's nearly two am here heh

 

[Furr]

can you play around with the "dead" files using a CMD prompt window?

 

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can you play around with the "dead" files using a CMD prompt window?

how do you mean?

 

[Cadelin]

Could it be something to do with the way the disk is mounted?

I had a similar problem except it was in reverse, Windows fucked up and then I couldn't access the disk even under Linux. Eventually I figured out all I had to do was unmount the disk, and reboot, it was then automatically mounted correctly by linux and everything was accessable again.

 

[TdC]

you can tell windows to perform a filesystem check at next boot. Cadelin has a good point there imo, though I fear you're looking at a backup of your files and a reinstall.

Files are files, once Doze knows what program to use to do things with them it's more or less cut and dried, so you can back up them to a dvd or something, and then just reinstall. It sounds lame, I know, but I find that with Windows it's often easiest...

 

[Jupitus]

Might be a codec issue - try reinstalling a decent codec pack?

 

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Might be a codec issue - try reinstalling a decent codec pack?

tried reinstalling divx , no such luck.

I thought my music was ok. However if i played a song, it would play another song for the first minute, then go to that song i wanted after that. Really messed up ;s

 

[nath]

Could be a file system fuckup - like the linux distro tried to convert it. Have you tried copying the files to another machine and running them from there?

 

[SheepCow]

If you were installing Linux on to a different drive then it shouldn't have gone anywhere near your Windows shizzles. Can you explain your HDD setup?

e.g.
"HDD1 has C: and D:,
HDD2 has G:

tried to install Linux on G:"

Might help with isolating the issue

 

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If you were installing Linux on to a different drive then it shouldn't have gone anywhere near your Windows shizzles. Can you explain your HDD setup?

e.g.
"HDD1 has C: and D:,
HDD2 has G:

tried to install Linux on G:"

Might help with isolating the issue

Windows is installed on my C drive
I have another internal hard drive (D), just used for files etc.
I was trying to partition a space on my D drive so I could install Linux.
The partition crashed half way through and when I booted up next time It went through a file recovery procedure before it went to the desktop.

I have tried to copy files from the D drive to my laptop as they are networked. Still nothing happens when I click a video for example. Opens VLC (wrong timer displayed) and no image.

 

[TdC]

I'd say your filesystem is extremely messed up and the files on it very likely pretty much broken.

you may have some luck with a third party filesystem repair tool, or perhaps an undelete/format recoverer thing. all stuff talked about in this tech forum with links and everything.

 

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Luckily i backed my dads photos and stuff up a few days before i messed around with it. Tv shows / music can be easily be downloaded again