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Hack&Lube · 07-29-2011, 07:41 PM

First things first get something like this http://www.disk-image.net/download.htm (free trial) and make a perfect clone of your drive first so that you don't cause any inadvertent damage by poking around. It may simply be that the partition table or boot sector is damaged.

I find it strange that you only see numbered files. There are a lot of NTFS recovery utilities out there are are free and should be able to see actual files. Clone your drive before you try anything else. Even the slightest write to the drive or change in the drive structure could wipe out all your data if you cannot access it properly.

07-29-2011, 07:41 PM	#2
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	First things first get something like this http://www.disk-image.net/download.htm (free trial) and make a perfect clone of your drive first so that you don't cause any inadvertent damage by poking around. It may simply be that the partition table or boot sector is damaged. I find it strange that you only see numbered files. There are a lot of NTFS recovery utilities out there are are free and should be able to see actual files. Clone your drive before you try anything else. Even the slightest write to the drive or change in the drive structure could wipe out all your data if you cannot access it properly.