Booted up my XP system yesterday and found that a secondary NTFS volume somehow got corrupted and shows no data. Chkdsk shows there is still plenty of files there but didn't find any problem (ran without '/f').
I've got 280 GB of non backed-up video on there and I really don't want to lose it so I want the best shot at recovering it without experimenting. Should I try a "chkdsk /f" from a command window? "chkdsk /p" from the recovery console? Other free util? What's the current thinking on this?
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The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is Local Disk 2. WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... File verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... Index verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)... Security descriptor verification completed. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems. 293033600 KB total disk space. 271095548 KB in 2248 files. 1472 KB in 1016 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 78996 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 21857584 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 73258400 total allocation units on disk. 5464396 allocation units available on disk.
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