scandisk wiped >half a gig. don't know why

pwd

[External hard drive] needs to be checked for consistency message on startup.
About 10 folders listed as being totally unreadable and deleted. Googling for "totally unreadable" got me no results.
OS is xp. Might be out of date since I recentlyrestored year-old ghost image
Anyone know why this might have happened? Didn't crash or anything.
Where are the recovered files stored, and the log?
Could it have been a power surge that caused it? My amp blew too so I'm wondering...

Sandals

Is your computer plugged in?

thats what went wrong with me one day when I just got a black screen if not,

try it out on a neighbours pc once that too is plugged in,

with all electronics you have to make sure they are plugged in

Blackjack

Hmmm. Interesting to see where this might go.

pwd

dickhead.
I mean chkdsk btw.

Karoma

cop on (all of you).

Check event viewer.
A power surge is a possibility.
Filesystem (NTFS?)?
Did you restore the ghosted image before or after the issue?

If the data is important - SpinRite (commericial) might do the job..

Cabaal

Sandals wrote:

Is your computer plugged in?
thats what went wrong with me one day when I just got a black screen if not,
try it out on a neighbours pc once that too is plugged in,
with all electronics you have to make sure they are plugged in

If your going to reply to somebodys question there's no need to be smart, smart answers like this in the future will result in a ban!

If you don't have anything helpful to add don't bother replying!
Your posting enough crap on the Braodband Forum that will probably get you banned for spamming if you keep it up (if you havn't been already), post more crap like your the above post and the same can happen here.

pwd wrote:

dickhead.
I mean chkdsk btw.

Same goes for you, no need for personal abuse!

Capt'n Midnight

if you didn't run the Safely Remove Hardware wizard or wait until windows has shutdown before removing or powering down the external usb device (drive / key / whatever ) then there is a chance of corruption especially if you wrote stuff to the disk.

If the power cut caused either the PC or the external device to loose power or there was a spike that cused a reboot then it's possible.

Old XP ghost - if you had reformatted the external drive in the meantime it may had not remembered drive geometry correctly (unlikely though)

pwd

The ghost was only done on the c drive. Never ghosted the external drive.
Didn't turn off or disconnect without powering down either.
Filesystem is FAT32 on external(NTFS on C).
Data is not important (more that I don't want it to happen again).
There was a power cut recently, but not while the PC was on.
thanks

Nick_oliveri

Same thing happened to a mate. Wiped his entire video folder. Windows told him that it was going to back up the data. The backup turned out to be a 15kb .file that we could do nothing with! The HD that it was on wasnt the primary OS HD, needless to say he was pissed off.

timeout

Ok ghost restores the HD to its ghost image wiping any partitions if the default restore is selected. You can choose to restore just a partition.Probalby what happened to Nick_oliveri's mate. I don't know how this effects attached external HDs though.

pwd

Sorry ghost was nothing to do with the problem; I only even mentioned it to explain why my system wasn't updated.