Old IDE drive wont show files

[Paddodust]

Hey Everyone...

I recently bought one of those sata to ide converters so I could open my old ide drive on my new sata Mobo. It seems to work ok... The drive shows up in local disk's assigned as D: and I can open it, but theres no files on it.. If I right click, it shows the drive is almost full, as I would expect since it is used, but as I said nothing show's. The file system shows FAT32

Worth a mention is.. when I turned on the computer and it started to load windows, it wanted to run a chkdsk on the drive, so I let it... Didn't take long but I do rember it saying bad clusters or something, fixed unallocated files fixed... then it asked me if I want to repair something and I said no just incase it deleted stuff. I know thats vague but It's all I can remember .

Computer is running Win7 64bit and Asus bios

Cheers

 

[COLGeek]

Sounds like the old drive is corrupted. A chkdsk "fix" may allow access to the drive contents, at least it may get you in (better than where you are now).

Go for it. Good luck!

 

[Paddodust]

Sounds like the old drive is corrupted. A chkdsk "fix" may allow access to the drive contents, at least it may get you in (better than where you are now).

Go for it. Good luck!

Thanks for the tip... I tried that and it said the disk contains file system errors that windows can't fix
Insufficient disk space to recover lost data........ theres over 40gb free space
Bad sectors found

 

[COLGeek]

Sounds like the ol' HDD is kaput.

 

[Paddodust]

That sucks... Im a music producer, and the last 4 years of tracks are on that drive...
Would there be any good software out there that would let me access the files ?

 

[COLGeek]

If Windows will recognize the HDD, you can try Recuva to access the data contained in the HDD. Worth a shot.

Also, you can go the HDD manufacturer's website and download their diagnostic tools to see if they can repair the HDD (i.e. Seatools at Seagate's site).

https://www.piriform.com/recuva

 

[Paddodust]

Thanks again.. Ill give those a go and see what happens.

 

[Paddodust]

Well Recuva seems to work but lots of the files seem to be overwritten with other files... I don't know how this happened because I distinctly remember the Hd working great when I pulled it from the old Motherboard and then It was just in storage.
I get the impression that chdsk did something to the contents.

 

[COLGeek]

Chkdsk may have started repairs (moving stuff) before it failed on you. Glad you were able to get some stuff back. Well done.

 

[Paddodust]

I was about to bite the Hd in half out of frustration lol... If it wasn't for you It would have been a case of cease and desist.
I can definitely recover most of the files relating to the music sequencing program I use. Which is indeed good news.

Your Help was very much appreciated .

Case closed..

 

[COLGeek]

You are most welcome. Have fun and rock on!