Tcll

as the title states, the most ChkDsk did was restore the structure... every file is in it's proper directory as it was when it went RAW. the problem... first off, before ChkDsk forced itself on me, recuva wasn't able to properly recover the drive, and basically give me about half the files in one unknown directory. now after ChkDsk, Recuva at least gets some of the directories right... but what happened after ChkDsk? basically, while it restored the structure for nearly 350GB of files (which took nearly 4 days), pretty much every file is 0KB. (my drive only has 1.5GB used) I've hated ChkDsk before for corrupting my files, but now you can guess how much I really hate it now... heh (especially after the fact I couldn't cancel it) so now the MFT is completely messed up, however, I did a 35-pass full-fledged deep scan with recuva, and it reported every file was still in good condition (as in the actual data, since I checked the sizes of about 60 files) however, recuva still recovers only about 140GB... got any ideas that might be able to help to recover the full amount?? (most of the files are still in an unknown directory) btw, might I mention the drive is compressed. I usually have a small drive for the OS, while every other large drive is for my data and is compressed to get the most out of it. what caused the HDD to go RAW? basically, I was trying to image another 80GB RAW HDD to set up my secondary compy's OS on. I plugged the 500GB into my brother's compy (power was off) after hibernating my compy. as soon as his compy boots up, the HDD reports being RAW. reconnected to my compy and booted up (for validation), and still RAW so I used my OS HDD, which my brother's compy was stupid and booted it, destroying my hibernation session in the process, even though his OS HDD was SATA priority 0, 9_9 and was able to image my 80GB onto that. funny thing is this 500GB was given to me NEW (about a year of usage) one last thing... I'm the master of RAW HDDs... I have about 15 IDE HDDs that are all RAW. I hate my freakin luck... heh (I do everything properly, and they still corrupt)