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[1m9]

hey my lacie driver has the screen that says file directory is corrupted and unreadable

will the test disk program work ?
cause if it does
and if i have understood right
1)i would have to reformat the whole hard drive (250gb) ( which I'm a bit hesitant to do considering the ramafaction(no homo) of it not working)
2)then run the recovery program then
3)probably borrow a friends harddrive and copy it to that
4) then copy is back to my hard drive

please and thank you

[Britec]

  1m9

Welcome to the forum

1. First off... make sure the drive is not bad? and that you are 100% sure the drive has not failed? and unreadable?

2. Do Not reformat the drive.

3. If you can access the drive then you can recovery the data without doing data recovery, unless you have lost data for some unknown reason, then you would have to do data recovery with software...on the other hand if the drive has failed and unreadable then data recovery is the only way and this will cost a fair bit of money to recover data.

[1m9]

hey
first of all thanks for the welcome

make sure the drive is not bad? and that you are 100% sure the drive has not failed? and unreadable?
uhm how do i know any of these things .... 

basic observations:
running on xp
blue light blinks
can feel the hard drive spin
that box come up which has the torch and searching for auto run however doesn't read anything is blank (normally folders are flashed quickly)

thank you

[Britec]

Is windows installed on this drive?
Have you tried to run CHKDSK /R on the drive?

possible bad drive 

[1m9]

ohhhhhhh waitttttt damn my bad

forgot to mention its an external hard drive .......

:s sorry about that .......

[dannyjks]

hears a guide on how to run check disk from Command prompt so you can do a check disk on your external hard drive
for windows xp http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265
for windows vista http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-vista/how-to-use-check-disk-in-windows-vista/
for windows 7 http://www.w7forums.com/use-chkdsk-check-disk-t448.html