Need help with a hard drive issue

[efish]

I have had my home theater PC for several years and today it was behaving very slowly and I cannot access files on my 2nd hard drive which is 2 250s Raided together, I got the following message:
M: is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect.

In Disk managment, the drive has a healthy status and it shows that the drive is 100% free (I hope i didn't lose all my data!!!)

In the cmd, I tried to run a chkdsk to fix errors, but got an error that says the volume is in use by another process, and it would have to be dismounted first. If I force a dismount, All open handles to this volume would then be invalid.

So I am thinking that the drive (or one of the drives) is damaged. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to correct the issue? or recover the data?

Thank you very much,
Efish



Specs below:
OS: XP Pro
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.0C Ghz 800Mhz FSB
MB: Asus P4P800-E Deluxe
Memory: Kingston PC3200 1Gig (2x512) Dual Channel
HD1: Western Digital 80 Gig IDE HD (upgraded to 120 MB)
HD2: Western Digital 500Gig (2x250) SATA HD's
Case: Silverstone LC03 With front mounted USB and Firewire ports (hidden)
Power Supply: Silverstone SST-400 Silent 400 Watt PSU
Video Card: Radeon 9800Pro Graphics card with VGA Silencer cooling solution Replaced with ASUS N N6600GT/TD/128 VGA (fan cooled)
Sound Card: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Surround sound with 7.1 Analog outputs and digital coaxial output.
NIC: onboard Gigabyte LAN and Linksys WMP54G wireless G NIC
TV-Tuner: Hauppauge PVR250 MCE
Keyboard/Mouse: Gyration GP1200-001 Wireless mouse and full size keyboard.
CPU cooling: Silverstone NTO1 Nitrogen based heatpipe cooler.
CD/DVD Burner: Samsung TS-H552B Dual layer burner w/ Nero Express
CD/DVD Reader: Samsung TS-H352A 16XDVD 48XCD
Card Reader: Atech Pro-9 USB Digital Card Reader (Black)
USB: PCI USB Card Belkin F5U220
Bluetooth Receiver: Linksys USBBT 100 USB Receiver.

 

[mullered07]

well sounds to me as if one of them is faulty, i presume its a raid 0 array ? sorry for you if this is the case, there are recovery programs available but i dont know how well if at all these work with raid arrays, but if you cant access the drives from windows?? theres a dos program you could try ive used a few years back to recover some files but again unsure of it will work on raid. http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm <<<< think thats it

 

[hat]

M?? Try changing the letter to D. Your 5.25" will become E, your primaey drive will stay as C and your floppy will stay as A.

 

[efish]

Thanks for the quick responses

Update, I was able to get a chkdsk scheduled for a reboot and it is now running, finding many "File record segment XXXXX is unreadable."
and a few
"Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "") from file segment"

Will let you know if it works

 

[mullered07]

M?? Try changing the letter to D. Your 5.25" will become E, your primaey drive will stay as C and your floppy will stay as A.

he probably has a card reader on there same as me i have c: d: e: f: all hdd's and g: h: i: j: << my card reader and k: and l: dvd-rw and virtual drive

Thanks for the quick responses

Update, I was able to get a chkdsk scheduled for a reboot and it is now running, finding many "File record segment XXXXX is unreadable."
and a few
"Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "") from file segment"

Will let you know if it works

good luck mate

 

[efish]

Well a few hours later after chkdsk ran, my computer is more stable, but I am still getting an I/O error. When I try to access the drive but it still appears healthy in the Computer Management dialog. I am about to give up and go for a data recovery service.

I had trouble getting into the bios to disable the drive. Can I do it in Windows XP?

Does anyone know of a good data recovery service in NYC? Thanks for the tip Mullered, but because this is two Raided drives, I'd rather take it to a pro than try myself.