hey i really need some help .this is what happened my laptop fell(it was running windows 7) and the computer stopped working normally.i decided to connect it to my desktop(which already contained a hard disk) to try and recover the info.i thought since there was two hard disks that i had to use raid instead of ahci. i then changed it back to ahci when i released it was wrong .i detached my desktop hd and booted into live image .but i keep receiving the following text that flashes before the os starts:
"the following are warnigs that were detected during this boot. these can be viewed in setup on the event log page WARNING:A problem with the hard drive has been detected."
after i boot i can see the hard disk but i cant access it, i get get this message when i try to :
"Unable to mount location
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: ntfs-mst-post-read-fixup-warn:
Record 1 has no FILE magic oxffffffff)
Failed to open inode $MFTMirr: Input/output error
Failed to load $MFTMirr: Input/output error
Failed to mount idev'sda3: Input/output error
NTFs is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the If parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the Idewmapper/ directory (e.g.
Idev/mapper/nvidia-eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid documentation
for more details."
plz be specific and detailed. thx
dmesg
if you want to see more details about the IO errors, and you might look at the SMART health in the disk utility and you'll probably see it reporting a bunch of bad sectors, in which case, it's time for a new drive.dd
as much data off the broken drive as you can, then pray that Windows'chkdsk
can repair it and recover most of it on the new drive.