I need a computer guru expert:

[Samckitt]

Today something happened to my second hard drive, it is partitioned into 3 drives; F, G, & H. F works fine, but G & H tells me: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. If I right pick on My COmputer & go to Manage, then Disk Management. Drive F says it is NTFS, but G & H does not. I tried the command convert {drive} /FS:NTFS & it says they are already NTFS. I have data on these that I don't want to loose. Anyone have any idea what I can do to save it?

Thanks.

[dhardison]

Scot, You didn't say what version of WinDOZE you're running but this might help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311724/en-us

[Samckitt]

Sorry I am running XP.

CHKDSK tells me this:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk g:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.

[dhardison]

Looks like you might need a 3rd-party utility to recover your data. Try looking at the forum below. I scanned a few responses and some look promising.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22determine+volume+version+and+state%22&start=10&sa=N&

HTH

[BA.]

Samckitt, please email me your ph. number and I might be able to help you out. I have a few s/w tools that may help you.
It kinda sounds like the FAT (file allocation table) is corrupt, but it may be more than that also.

Also, just out of curiosity, I wonder what brand and size the drive is? I'm also curious whether your BIOS recognizes the drive correctly. Lastly, to be 100% safe, you should probably run some virus and malware checkers.


BA
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[chicane67]

It is a FAT issue.

If you have the means, "WinPE" would be my choice to work this issue.

But Id take BA's offerings first.

[BA.]

WinPE IS pretty damn cool. :)