Not good.
Not that this will help much, but what filesystem are you running on the affected drive? Judging from the extent of the damage I guess you're using FAT32 not NTFS. Were you by any chance doing something disk intensive at the time?
The deal is that your music is all in there. What it sounds like (assuming FAT32) is that the crash/reboot went and damaged both copies of the file allocation table (as it will normally revert to the backup if the primary gets screwed) the end result of which is the system lost the references to the files so all it sees is data marked as files that it doesn't know what to do with.
So windows bundles it all up into little files (probably the filesize of each one is the same as the cluster size on the partition) so if you're some kind of recovery whiz you can peice it back together again.
Now this was all good back in 1988 when you were talking about maybe losing 300k of text files that were easily put back, but 10gb of mp3s is quite another matter (they're not human readable for a start).
I'm sorry to say I have no idea if there is any realistic way to get them back.
I hope you had a library listing so at least you know what to rip again.
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Last edited by meglamaniac; 21 May 2003 at 15:40.
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