Problem with accessing hard drive...

[Exodia]

Hey fellas,

Today i was copying a file over to my D: drive when the processes was haulted. I thought nothing of it and tried again, but this time a message popped up and told me my drive was not formatted! I also noticed that the name i had given it was gone, it went back to default 'local disk'. I tried to have a look at it through partition magic but got "error #45: crc error in data". Does anyone know what this problem is and is there a way to fix it? I hope so because i have some files on the drive that i need to retrieve.

[jpatto]

Have you tried using scandisk to see if it repairs any problems?

[Astalavista]

did u scan it for viruses?

[Exodia]

Thanks for the suggestions...

I used Chkdsk (checkdisk) and managed to get my drive working again. Chkdsk found a few errors in the file system and repaired them all.

Now, time to back up this drive before i learn my lesson the hard way.