#drive corruption

my external hard drive is corrupted, reading as this in the disk management window:

it looks like its this problem:

So, at one point, I tried to consolidate all my ideas for Samsara into its own Scrivener project. (There are legacy files in the original compilations 1-3, 4-6, 7-9.) Which, at least they were mostly in one place, right?

[Yeah, I know, 7-9? Until I finish writing 6, no one will see 7 or 8, and 9 is still being written.]

The drive corruption issue? Yeah, at least on the hard drive itself, that partition, the Samsara folder is dead. I can't get in there.

Which means it's entirely possible that the efforts toward a Samsara+SPN story is gone! And other things, tons of notes on various options. Which just pisses me off.

I'll have to check the external to see if I managed to get anything prior to the most recent (forced) reboot (the power went out just long enough to down the machine, and it went through another repair booting up, and yet needs repair again because I've yet to yank the drive and put in the replacement) onto that thing.

There's nothing for that project in my cloud storage.

So yeah, I'm pissed.

I found through coincidence that Calibre could still read the sub-folders. I was able to go through my entire library and use Calibre to open those, and back-up those files.

Sure, the actual library folder was corrupt (I guess a pointer went on holiday?), and some of the files within the sub-folders were irretrievable, but I managed to get the vast majority of the files to a safe partition.

Re-building my Calibre library at the moment in a new folder. Then I'll copy everything to my external, as a secondary measure.

Mind you, once I did have Calibre switch to a new location? Yeah, I can no longer switch it back, but that's okay.

That in mind, if I can remember the folder names from Grazhir, I might be able to save certain parts and back those up too.