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The file system is corrupt, it was on ntfs, windows xp, i bought a ide to usb converter to try and get it to load up on my laptop and run a data recovery program, but it’s not recognising and can’t see it as an additional drive etc.

I’m trying to sort out the hard drive back on my old pc, set as master, using recovery console, so far i’ve tried chkdsk /p & chkdsk /r but it always gets stuck at 67% and i left it like it for hours and it definetly wasn’t moving anywhere, It says i can’t use the bootcfg /rebuild command as it says “error - failed to successfully scan disks for windows installations this error may be caused by a corrupt file system, which would prevent bootcfg from successfully scanning. use chkdesk to detect any disk errrors.

I really need some help, i’m desperate to get this sorted as it has like 4yrs worth of my data
Looks like the drive has totally failed then going by the age of the drive you have given.

The only comment I can make is you have now learnt the hard way of not backing off important data. If data is that important you should back it off onto another medium as soon as possible afterwards. Especially as drives can fail at anytime, be it four years, four months or four days.

I  say if anything can be retrieved from the drive, it’s going to cost you a fortune from a company that specialises in it because the drives have to be stripped in sterile conditions.