Help with corrupt partition

I have a Maxtor 500GB hard-drive. I had partitioned it into 100GB primary drive and 400GB logical drive. I have been working like this for a long time now but today morning, when I insert the hard-drive, I can only access the primary drive but not the logical drive. When I click on the logical drive icon in ‘My Computer’, I get an error message saying the drive is corrupt and could not be read. The properties box says the partition is of RAW file-type. When the computer turns on with the drive connected, windows starts the start-up disk checking but immediately goes into an infinite loop saying ‘Inserting index file in index $0 at location 53276’ (or something like that).
The most surprising fact is that the drive works perfectly when I run my comp using ubuntu and I am able to access all data. Plz help me; it’s really urgent!!!
P.S.: I have a regular habit of removing the ‘System Volume Information’ and ‘Recycler’ folders from drives when I’m running ubuntu. I never had any problem because of that. Do you think that might be the reason?
Answer #1
If you don’t have any important data in that partition…Just delete it and recreate it…
Answer #2
Oh no! Too much of data! 400GB of it actually. And my comp’s inbuilt capacity is only 80GB. So I cant even back it up Nor do I know anyone who has that much of capacity in his comp….
EDIT: Plz help me. Its really urgent!
Answer #3
no surprise that none win (dos) can read it maybe worth trying hirens and the like to rebuild the mbr
Answer #4
TestDisk is worth a shot. Saved me from the exact thing quite a few times.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
Answer #5
well if you got blue-ray it only takes about 8 to 9 discs to backup 400GB
if you don’t and cannot borrow it from anyone and if you got no other hdd to backup to:
buy one, i would dis advice having your important data stored only on one hdd,
hdds crash, i know (and the dude who bought mine on ebay does too, warned him though)
Answer #6
@ and TheDA,
Will try what you advised. Thanks in advance
@xerox^^,
Ahem… I live in India. Blue-ray still costs a fortune here…