Posted May 28, 2015 Hi everyone, I have a very old Samsung Laptop and recently It started behaving abnormally, I was not letting me access my Folders and stuff in C drive and was asking for Admin permission and when Today I tried to bootup the Laptop, It doesn't boot up. Laptop had a Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 (Legit) Antivirus so I don't think it was Virus but OS gone haywire, I then plugged my Laptop's HDD in my PC and scanned for Viruses (I have Kaspersky Pure 3.0 in my PC) and no viruses were found... I can access all the files I want in my Laptops HDD except for C drive and I have alot of Important Downloads and Docs in my C drive. When I try to access it It says I don't have the permission and I will have to go to security tab to gain access, When I'm done provding my PC the Full control and When I hit apply It says " The file on this directory is corrupt or unreadable " I have a lot of Important Data on that Drive, Anyone have any Idea how to recover it? I don't think It's physical damage to drive but as I said, Software gone Haywire. Thanks in Advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 28, 2015 Hi everyone, I have a very old Samsung Laptop and recently It started behaving abnormally, I was not letting me access my Folders and stuff in C drive and was asking for Admin permission and when Today I tried to bootup the Laptop, It doesn't boot up. Laptop had a Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 (Legit) Antivirus so I don't think it was Virus but OS gone haywire, I then plugged my Laptop's HDD in my PC and scanned for Viruses (I have Kaspersky Pure 3.0 in my PC) and no viruses were found... I can access all the files I want in my Laptops HDD except for C drive and I have alot of Important Downloads and Docs in my C drive. When I try to access it It says I don't have the permission and I will have to go to security tab to gain access, When I'm done provding my PC the Full control and When I hit apply It says " The file on this directory is corrupt or unreadable " I have a lot of Important Data on that Drive, Anyone have any Idea how to recover it? I don't think It's physical damage to drive but as I said, Software gone Haywire. Thanks in Advance You could try running Recuva. Usually works for recovering files. QUOTE ME OR I PROBABLY WON'T SEE YOUR RESPONSE My Setup: Desktop Spoiler CPU: Ryzen 9 3900X CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Motherboard: Asus Prime X370-PRO RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 @3200MHz GPU: EVGA RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA (+50 core +400 memory) Storage: 1050GB Crucial MX300, 1TB Crucial MX500 PSU: EVGA Supernova 750 P2 Chassis: NZXT Noctis 450 White/Blue OS: Windows 10 Professional Displays: Asus MG279Q FreeSync OC, LG 27GL850-B Main Laptop: Spoiler Laptop: Sager NP 8678-S CPU: Intel Core i7 6820HK @ 2.7GHz RAM: 32GB DDR4 @ 2133MHz GPU: GTX 980m 8GB Storage: 250GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 + 1TB Samsung 850 Pro + 1TB 7200RPM HGST HDD OS: Windows 10 Pro Chassis: Clevo P670RG Audio: HyperX Cloud II Gunmetal, Audio Technica ATH-M50s, JBL Creature II Thinkpad T420: Spoiler CPU: i5 2520M RAM: 8GB DDR3 Storage: 275GB Crucial MX30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 28, 2015 I would first try checking it out with a Linux LiveCD (I like Ubuntu because it has a good search feature) to get around Windows permissions that you are having trouble with. This might be enough to get back most of your data, but if not then you should try Recuva as suggested above, or a program called photorec. photorec is all command line driven, but will probably be more successful than Recuva. While in that Linux LiveCD you could also check out ddrescue and testdisk, both of which are good command line recovery programs. Failing these you may want to look into UBCD4Win (specifically BartPE and other recovery tools), Hiren's Boot CD and RIP Linux (Recovery Is Possible Linux, conveniently included on Hiren's). Best of luck "PSU brands are meaningless, look up the OEM." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 28, 2015 Wow, sounds like the drive is failing. Do not run anything like chkdsk because it will probably cause more wear and failure. I would take AnnoyedShelf's suggestion and download and run Recuva and get what I needed before the drive is totally toast. Did I help you to fix your problem or at least did offer somewhat valuable advice? Consider giving my post a "informative" or "thumbs up". SYSTEM 2: Modded G3 case with Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2L, Intel E8600 (O.C to 4.2GHz.), 4GB GSkill PC8500, Nvidia 8800GTS (512M), Cooling provided by Scythe Big Shrunkin, HDD 1 = OSX 10.9.5, HDD 2 = Windows 7 Pro X64. (Placed 3rd in MacMod of the year 2012) (For info see: http://insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285641-and-the-winner-for-macmod-of-2012-is/ LAPTOP: Inspiron 1720, Modded BIOS, X9000 Core 2 extreme OC'ed and undervolted to 3.4GHz (windows only) , 6GB DDR2 800, 8600M GT, 1920x1200 Glossy display, Sigmatel Audio, 2 Kingston HyperX 120GB drives (1 with Windows 7 x64 pro & 1 with OSX 10.9.5) X9000 Processor World Record Holder since 02/2013 on Geekbench 2 : http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/search?dir=desc&q=x9000&sort=score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 28, 2015 Author Thanks everyone above but It seems the problem is now solved. I re-installed the HDD in my Laptop thinking to install a Fresh OS in another Drive so I can boot from Laptop and backup my Important files present in another drive and now Windows is running self diagnostics and now Repairing Disk Error, Let's see how it goes I'll keep you guys posted and once again thanks for helping P.S - Recuva didn't helped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 28, 2015 Author Any idea why this happens in the first place? Or my HDD is dying? This laptop is about 3-4 years old though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 28, 2015 Any idea why this happens in the first place? Or my HDD is dying? This laptop is about 3-4 years old though. Your HDD may be dying. You can check out the SMART data from the drive if it supports it with CrystalDiskInfo: http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html Direct link to the smallest portable version: http://osdn.jp/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/62506/CrystalDiskInfo6_3_2.zip/?use_mirror=jaist "PSU brands are meaningless, look up the OEM." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 28, 2015 Author Your HDD may be dying. You can check out the SMART data from the drive if it supports it with CrystalDiskInfo: http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html Direct link to the smallest portable version: http://osdn.jp/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/62506/CrystalDiskInfo6_3_2.zip/?use_mirror=jaist Thanks I'll check my HDD with it once I get it all booted up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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