Solve : Error: File System is damaged. HELP!??

1.	Solve : Error: File System is damaged. HELP!??
Answer» Hello all, Hopefully someone can aid me in resolving this issue ASAP. Basically O&O Defrag (v10) continues to tell me that my main drive (a 320GB Hitachi SATA HDD) has a damaged file system after every CHKDSK. Over the past several days I have run every CHKDSK SCAN/repair that I could manage (e.g. CHKDSK /P /R from Recovery Console, A "Fix file system and repair bad SECTORS" scan from the "Disk" tools in Windows, etc...), yet I am always greeted with the same problem. Error: File system is damaged. I have even gone so far as to rebuild the MBR and the Boot sector to no avail. I am guessing the problem lies in the MFT (although I am not an expert), because after rebuilding the MBR, a large cluster of data (Approximately 50 GB) that was once labeled as Reserved for the $MFT in O&O disappeared, magically freeing up said 50 GB from used HDD space. Any help would be greatly appreciated for I do not wish to do what seems to inevitably be my only option... reformat. Thanks. (Also, as of last night Copy and Paste functionality was not working, if that helps with the diagnosis.)Download the Hard Drive diagnostics (or Drive Fitness Test) from here. Create a Bootable CD and then boot from it. It could be ready to fail. These instructions where originally from patio.If that dows not work, the only option may be reformat, and do a clean install of windows.Thanks for the help guys. Kinda goofed tho, was actually a Western Digital to my surprise, I had assumed it was the Hitachi drive... go figure. Anyway, I placed my advanced replacement order today with WD. Although I was wondering, what would be the best way to copy my old data to the new drive? Would just copying from Windows on the new drive cause any data to become corrupt, possibly as it is reading the data. I ask because a zip file I had downloaded the night before showed as empty yesterday as well as temporary file folders (for installing new programs, gave me an error that the temp FOLDER the exe had copy files to for the install was not present no less then immediately after the setup copied them). Thanks again.Quote from: M1RAG3 on October 24, 2007, 05:16:06 PM Thanks for the help guys. Kinda goofed tho, was actually a Western Digital to my surprise, I had assumed it was the Hitachi drive... go figure. Anyway, I placed my advanced replacement order today with WD. Did you ever find and run the Western Digital diagnostics against the disk to check the integrity of the drive and its disk surfaces? Yes I was able to DL the WD Diagnostics tool. I ran the full scan (e.g. the Quick test and the Full Media test) and both did not report any errors. So now my question is this: As I stated earlier my plan is to install a new copy of XP onto the replacement drive which is on its way. My question is that if I attempt to recover (a.k.a. copy) my files from the corrupted/damaged disk (which just to refresh is being caused by a "damaged filesystem") in doing so would I cause further data loss? Basically by accessing the files from the NEW Windows installation (new drive) that are on the old drive, would the bad filesystem corrupt or damage the data as I am copying it?If you boot to a new operating system on a new disk it should not cause additional damage to the old disk (file system) as long as you're only reading from the old disk. Do not attempt any write operations to the old disk. The new operating system must be capable of reading the file system of the old disk (e.g. FAT, FAT32, NTFS).Ok cool, so as long as I only copy stuff everything should be OK? Cause I am just worried that when I get the new drive and get Windows up and running if I try to access all my old data, in doing so it would become corrupt.

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Hello all,

Hopefully someone can aid me in resolving this issue ASAP. Basically O&O Defrag (v10) continues to tell me that my main drive (a 320GB Hitachi SATA HDD) has a damaged file system after every CHKDSK. Over the past several days I have run every CHKDSK SCAN/repair that I could manage (e.g. CHKDSK /P /R from Recovery Console, A "Fix file system and repair bad SECTORS" scan from the "Disk" tools in Windows, etc...), yet I am always greeted with the same problem. Error: File system is damaged. I have even gone so far as to rebuild the MBR and the Boot sector to no avail. I am guessing the problem lies in the MFT (although I am not an expert), because after rebuilding the MBR, a large cluster of data (Approximately 50 GB) that was once labeled as Reserved for the $MFT in O&O disappeared, magically freeing up said 50 GB from used HDD space. Any help would be greatly appreciated for I do not wish to do what seems to inevitably be my only option... reformat.

Thanks.

(Also, as of last night Copy and Paste functionality was not working, if that helps with the diagnosis.)Download the Hard Drive diagnostics (or Drive Fitness Test) from here.

Create a Bootable CD and then boot from it.
It could be ready to fail.

These instructions where originally from patio.If that dows not work, the only option may be reformat, and do a clean install of windows.Thanks for the help guys. Kinda goofed tho, was actually a Western Digital to my surprise, I had assumed it was the Hitachi drive... go figure. Anyway, I placed my advanced replacement order today with WD.

Although I was wondering, what would be the best way to copy my old data to the new drive? Would just copying from Windows on the new drive cause any data to become corrupt, possibly as it is reading the data. I ask because a zip file I had downloaded the night before showed as empty yesterday as well as temporary file folders (for installing new programs, gave me an error that the temp FOLDER the exe had copy files to for the install was not present no less then immediately after the setup copied them). Thanks again.Quote from: M1RAG3 on October 24, 2007, 05:16:06 PM

Thanks for the help guys. Kinda goofed tho, was actually a Western Digital to my surprise, I had assumed it was the Hitachi drive... go figure. Anyway, I placed my advanced replacement order today with WD.

Did you ever find and run the Western Digital diagnostics against the disk to check the integrity of the drive and its disk surfaces?
Yes I was able to DL the WD Diagnostics tool. I ran the full scan (e.g. the Quick test and the Full Media test) and both did not report any errors.

So now my question is this:

As I stated earlier my plan is to install a new copy of XP onto the replacement drive which is on its way.

My question is that if I attempt to recover (a.k.a. copy) my files from the corrupted/damaged disk (which just to refresh is being caused by a "damaged filesystem") in doing so would I cause further data loss? Basically by accessing the files from the NEW Windows installation (new drive) that are on the old drive, would the bad filesystem corrupt or damage the data as I am copying it?If you boot to a new operating system on a new disk it should not cause additional damage to the old disk (file system) as long as you're only reading from the old disk. Do not attempt any write operations to the old disk.

The new operating system must be capable of reading the file system of the old disk (e.g. FAT, FAT32, NTFS).Ok cool, so as long as I only copy stuff everything should be OK? Cause I am just worried that when I get the new drive and get Windows up and running if I try to access all my old data, in doing so it would become corrupt.

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