John Dowling
May 31st, 2009, 08:00 PM
I tried Acronis Disk Director for creating a new partition and resizing the main partition of my HDD (taking the unallocated space)
After running Acronis D D, no new partition was eventually created and apparently nothing had changed. However soon I noticed that although no files were missing, most of them were unreadable (but not all, just the most important such a several GB truecrypt volume :'( ).
All files show the correct size. Some damaged files show a slightly changed file name (e.g for a jpg: IMG_0435 (original) -> 20050308_IMG_0001 (changed)). Damaged files can’t be opened no matter they are docs, pdf, jpg, or truecrypt volumes. The strangest thing is that I found an images folder with both damaged and alright pictures, and between all there was a picture which could be opened but showed to be partially corrupted.
After the disaster, I burned into DVDs all my data, both damaged and good files, hoping someday I will find the way to recover such a big loss.
Later I tried to revert what I did by using Acronis Disk Director again, but it only got worse as now it is not possible to boot the HDD anymore.
I have tried to plug this HDD on another computer and run CHKDSK (diskletter): /r
but Windows replied:
Cannot open volume for direct access.
If I try to access it by Explorer, I get:
F:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
I have read many similar threads reporting corrupted data caused by Acronis software (I read it too late), but didn’t find solutions.
I therefore make one of my corrupted pictures available for download in case someone feels capable to repair it.
http://rapidshare.com/files/239417401/20060907_IMG_0006.JPG.html
Thinking Acronis may have corrupted the file system, I am considering formatting the drive and seeing if I can get the files using something like Pandora Recovery Software. Or just give a chance to NTFS Data Recovery from http://www.runtime.org/?
As in that hard drive I stored all my important data (financial, works, personal files) any suggestion on how to recover it will be much appreciated. Thanks
After running Acronis D D, no new partition was eventually created and apparently nothing had changed. However soon I noticed that although no files were missing, most of them were unreadable (but not all, just the most important such a several GB truecrypt volume :'( ).
All files show the correct size. Some damaged files show a slightly changed file name (e.g for a jpg: IMG_0435 (original) -> 20050308_IMG_0001 (changed)). Damaged files can’t be opened no matter they are docs, pdf, jpg, or truecrypt volumes. The strangest thing is that I found an images folder with both damaged and alright pictures, and between all there was a picture which could be opened but showed to be partially corrupted.
After the disaster, I burned into DVDs all my data, both damaged and good files, hoping someday I will find the way to recover such a big loss.
Later I tried to revert what I did by using Acronis Disk Director again, but it only got worse as now it is not possible to boot the HDD anymore.
I have tried to plug this HDD on another computer and run CHKDSK (diskletter): /r
but Windows replied:
Cannot open volume for direct access.
If I try to access it by Explorer, I get:
F:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
I have read many similar threads reporting corrupted data caused by Acronis software (I read it too late), but didn’t find solutions.
I therefore make one of my corrupted pictures available for download in case someone feels capable to repair it.
http://rapidshare.com/files/239417401/20060907_IMG_0006.JPG.html
Thinking Acronis may have corrupted the file system, I am considering formatting the drive and seeing if I can get the files using something like Pandora Recovery Software. Or just give a chance to NTFS Data Recovery from http://www.runtime.org/?
As in that hard drive I stored all my important data (financial, works, personal files) any suggestion on how to recover it will be much appreciated. Thanks