[Masterman]

Buffalo 1TB HDD, formatted to NTFS, had ALL of my important files on it. Had a power outage today while I was streaming media from it.

Windows and Linux both recognize the drive, but I get the infamous "Data is Corrupted" message.

Anyone have any tools, suggestions for recovering the Data?

[Phonism]

I had my 1TB WD MyBook dying on me (bad sectors etc), and suddenly ALOT of files were missing. I used EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional v4.3.6 and it found everything.

[franciz]

There are lots of software for recovering files.
One of the best i've tried is photorec. It recover more files than others, but the bad part is that it changes the file names. It just puts random numbers instead of the names.
Another one that gets good results is getdataback.

I had not tried the one mentioned before, but i've tried other softwares from eaesus and were really good.

[barryware]

in winblows from dos prompt:

chkdsk d:

See what it finds.. then let winblows fix it: chkdsk d: /f

the above assumes your drive is drive d. /f means fix

Only the corrupt file(s) will end up in a folder called "found"

You did say it was formatted ntfs.. won't work with linux format (ext2, ext3)

[Masterman]

[LOM]

O&O Disc recovery is quite good at rebuilding directory structures and finding the files.

[buddee]

You may be able to pull this off using knoppix or some other type bootable live linux, see if you can read the files under linux and backup as needed, atleast this method worked for me many time before.

[Masterman]

Right now I'm running getdataback (taking forever), and it looks like it is making progress. It is showing all the files, and found a bad sector. I'll see what the outcome is once it's done.

@Lom, O&O software is great. Totally forgot about t. If this doesn't work, I will definitely give it a try

[franciz]

Once you finish recovering, you should delete partition and format the disk or do a

[minlab]

I am not sure you familiar with norton ghost or not.

firstable, you CAN'T run any command such as chkdsk or install any recover utilities on that HD!(if you do still have access) this keeps your HD on "fresh" and ready to recover.

then you need to use ghost to clone the HD to another HD for backup, it allows to have the latest copy of your HD.( then you could run chkdsk if you want)

you may get all files back if you run ghost explorer.

hope is helps.

[h4x0r]

[got_milk]

[ludovicf]

Put the drive in the freezer for an hour or two and try to access the files again. I guarantee this is no joke, extreme cold often help hd heads to read properly again for a short period of time.

[barryware]

[ESKIMOn00b]

yeah tell me about it... its cheaper to rip the disk outta the machiene and hope to fix it later than to get a pro to pull "magic" outta their ass for the price of 10 TB's... i'm in a similar situation, i had a disk in the middle of moving partitions around and lost power... of course it wouldnd be anything less important than all of the girlfriends pictures... been hammering at it for almost 3 months now and no luck... i dunno if remapping the partition table will help, but it looks like some killer math...