Big Big Issue with 280 IDE in External Closure.

[SE14man]

My mate came round yesterday with his 280GB drive with all the treasure on it.
I think our USB sockets or one of our cards is a bit knacked because when we plug his external in or any external and during copying processes it says corruption n stuff on the bottom right pop up of the screen.
Thne when i try n play some of his wav files they say invalid somehting corupt blah blah blah (cant remember)
Anyway we ignored the errors whilst copying and let it all copy over.
We restarted a couple of times too with his drive plugged in.
This was the first error on the event viewer we had of his disk:
The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume H:.
Again we ignored that.
When it was time 4 him to go home we were all in a rush and were tryna stop the device in windows but it wouldnt stop so we just unplugged the USB cable, straight after that i saw this error msg in the event viewer (just after hed left o go home)
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.

Got a text from him this morning saying the drive is unreadable and corrupted thats all he said.
I juss said to him take apart the enclosure andp ut the IDE in as a slave n see how it goes.

Dos ne1 know the exact prob here?
Hes a radio presenter and had so much stuff on there n if this pc has messed his drive up i will not be popular.

He just told me that his pc will see the drive letter but it wont come up with the size or anything.

Cheers ppl.

[unclebud]

If he can, run error checking through Windows.
If not, try running chkdsk on the drive from the command window.
Start
Run
type CMD
In DOS box type CHKDSK and Enter
It wont fix anything but may tell you what's wrong.

[The_Doman]

Not the smartest move to ignore all those system warnings.

Best is to run some data recovery tool on the corrupted hd.

[SE14man]

Thanks for the replie he tried CHKDSK apparently but no luck.
I'll goute the email he sent me and see if you can see what the problem is by whats happening: This is what he juss wrote in an email.

Hi

CHKDSK is the first thing I tried but no joy there either. Looks like the MFT or MBR may be at fault. I don't want to mess with the drive any more until I am sure I can fix it.

The strange thing is when I booted my PC this morning for some reason it started a shut down at the login prompt due to a disrupted system process, probably svchost.exe - nothing I had done myself, although I know this will cause a forced system shutdown if closed using task manager - which I have done before when closing progs to free up memory ready for video capturing.. Weird

Perhaps you should run a scan on that system, serious issues there. Maybe a virus, trojan or something.