Corrupt Folders

[Austin]

Hi

I hope so hard that someone can help me out here. I have about 5 partitions on my hard disk. My C drive was for Win98 and the D - G was WinXP. REcently i wanted to upgrade Win98 on C:\ to WinXP and i upgraded it. When i returned back to my D:\, i found that many folders were corrupted. Its like they have been turned into files with URL extentions. I have lost some very important and sentimental work to this. Is there ANY WAY i can get my data back from those folders?

[RickDev]

could you give me an example of the name on the folder. The XP SHOULD NOT have messed with any other partition when trying to upgrade. Then again, it is a MS program. I am not sure what more to say. Have you tried to rename any of them or try and get into any of the folders?

[Austin]

Originally posted by RickDev@Jul 22 2005, 11:55 AM
could you give me an example of the name on the folder. The XP SHOULD NOT have messed with any other partition when trying to upgrade. Then again, it is a MS program. I am not sure what more to say. Have you tried to rename any of them or try and get into any of the folders?

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OK, for example, when i booted up in my C drive, some folders had non-english characters. and every file in those folders also had these same non-english characters. I assumed, those folders must have been corrupted during my installations of XP. So when i booted up in my D drive, i had an initial diskscan, which i didnt thought nothing off, but as it scanned, it started turning folders into files. When it all finished, and i finally booted through my D drive, i found that all the folders which had non-english names, were turned into files. they were simply files with no extention at all whatsoever and the size was 32kb.

2 days ago, i decided to recreate the error. I found a few more folders with non-english names when i booted through my C drive. But when i booted again in my D Drive, those folders were alright. So im guessing, while the diskscan, XP thought those folders were corrpt and changed those folders back into files.

I KNOW those files are still there becoz they are occuping space on my harddisk. Is there ANYWAY i can get those files back? Or is there ANYWAY i can access those files directly through sectors or something? i tried DOS but those folders were showing.

[RickDev]

That is normally a bad deal there. I am not sure if there are any tools that may help on this. it all depends on the damage that was done to the folders/files. I will look around and if I find something I will post. I am in a training class all week, so not sure how much time I have right now.