Comments on: Error #1520: External attribute header mismatch

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:50:00 +0000

I have no acess to this drive anymore, so I can’t type chkdsk. What do I do? :(

By: khalid arab

khalid arab — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:58:00 +0000

thanks buddy,
it really worked for me, if you were near me then i would have given you the reward for it,but again i would like to thank you very much.

By: khalid arab

khalid arab — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:58:00 +0000

thanks buddy,
it really worked for me, if you were near me then i would have given you the reward for it,but again i would like to thank you very much.

By: trung

trung — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:01:21 +0000

i should thx all of u guys, i was depressed when my data was almost gone :)). My treasure is some precious family' photos . Thx

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:04:33 +0000

Well I have a different experience to report. After one year this thead was the best on the web for solutions.
I used PM 8.0 to merge 2 partitions, got the the dreaded 1520, couldn't get into the PM folder, no permissions tab etc.
I didn't disable simple file sharing. I actually shared the flolder got some kickback from XP but then the progress window opened and went through resetting permission on subfolders.
The progress window closed and Voila! i had my folders back.
Now though the one folder I really needed would not open and prompted there was corruption.
I tried chkdisk with no switches and it reported errors.
I ran chkdisk /f now it has fixed some things and is going through about 100,000 files recovering.
Chkdisk stopped and I have my files back!!!

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:11:43 +0000

Thanks man. Although your solution worked, I later found that one of the programs, PM8 or Chkdsk had screwed up the two directories on the one partition holding all of my media content. The data still existed; not in a readable format, but as chk files. Not sure if they're recoverable but we'll see.

By: afilaj

afilaj — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:05:13 +0000

THANX A LOT DUDE…HAD 150 GIGS OF IMPORTANT DATA..PHEWWW

By: Pbr

Pbr — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:42:39 +0000

GREAT THANKS!!! It worked :)

By: Mirdin

Mirdin — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:01:02 +0000

Sadly, this is what happened to me. I had 2 partition. G and J. I wanted to merge J into G. Gave the above error. 1520… I tried what you said, sadly it didnlt work. I had the folder on G, but it was empty once I got persmission to it. I also noticed that the old partition, J, was still there, sadly without a file system. PM8 really screwed it up for me. The interestung part is, that except for that folder, the G partition is very well intact at its old size… But like I said, J has 0 bytes, no FAT and every time I click on it it asks me to format it, like I would do that… Not before I try some paetition recovery programs :P Stay away from PM8. It happened ot me before. Lost 5 years of work, 200 GB of data…

By: Klim

Klim — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:32:48 +0000

Thanks author, loan and CP very much.