no more hdd, corrupted

[maxpower2078]

I have a hard drive that use to be by boot drive with 2 partitions on it and have since put in a bigger drive for the same purpose. I was using the old one inside of an external exclosure to access the data on it through firewire. I would loose connection a lot transferring large files > 2 GB. So finally one day it would not read the drive, the partitions show up as they did before, but when trying to access it, a message would appear saying that it is corrupted and try some disk tools. I tried putting it in another computer, connecting it to IDE, but still get the same thing. I have files on here I would like to keep, am I out of luck or does anyone know how I can fix this?

P.S. I was using it externall because all IDE spots were filled up and as a side note, I have placed another drive in the enclosure and used the USB connection and don't have any problems now, I thought I would be doing better with firewire, but look where it got me.

[Bjs]

Have you tried it as a slaved unit ?

If it show's on the pc , go into window's , windows explorer , and right click on that drive , choose tool's , then scandisk .

Under xp , it should state that it will do this upon the start of it's next pc bootup ... do so , this might just get this curruption problem sorted .

A tool you might also want to grab is drive rescue , it can recover file's from even a formatted drive .

Noting your pc info , where is sp2 ? , your corruption may have been caused by specific update's not having been installed ... esspecially for firewire device support improvement's .

If you are unable to locate drive rescue : http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/driverescue19d.html

Ntfs is incomplete , but can work ... this is due to active encryption .

To grab file's from here , insert hd into another winxp system as slaved unit , then scavenge for file's ... as it is slaved and not the active os partition , it should be easier to grab file's ... I have done this myself before .

Note : If file show's as "green" it should be 100% recoverable .... other's are considered pot luck .

Something for all too get a look at is : http://grml.org/ (my favourite method's come from linux mini distro's)

You can grab the mini distro , or the full iso that is packed too the eyeball's ...