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Hard Disc problem
Hello people.
I've got a bit of a major problem with a hard disk of mine. I ran scan disk on this hard drive tho half way through i had a power cut. Since that moment this drive has been dead. Windows does not recongnize the drive at all, if you goto the event log all you see is hundreds of bad sector warnings. The bios recongizes the drive, and thats about it. Oh also the drive makes a funny noise when it tries to spin. Can anyone recommend anything to get some of my data off this drive.. Many Thanks |
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On 16 Dec 2005 05:17:31 -0800, "Simon"
wrote: Hello people. I've got a bit of a major problem with a hard disk of mine. I ran scan disk on this hard drive tho half way through i had a power cut. Since that moment this drive has been dead. Windows does not recongnize the drive at all, if you goto the event log all you see is hundreds of bad sector warnings. The bios recongizes the drive, and thats about it. Oh also the drive makes a funny noise when it tries to spin. Can anyone recommend anything to get some of my data off this drive.. Many Thanks If Windows doesn't recognize the disk how is there hundreds of bad sector warnings in the event log? Are these from before the hard disk crashed? I think the only way you can get data off this disk is to send it to a recovery place. Of course that costs a few thousand bucks. |
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If the failure happened after the power surge or cut then the chances
are that the pcb on the harddrive has been damaged , if it were me i would try and buy a harddrive exactly the same make and model number of the old harddrive and swap the pcb`s over , its a lot cheaper than recovery option. |
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Though it sounds as if you may have more extensive problems with this hard
drive, I recommend Spinrite 6 by Gibson Research. It may be able to recover the data on the drive. You can read more about it at www.grc.com Steve "Simon" wrote in message oups.com... Hello people. I've got a bit of a major problem with a hard disk of mine. I ran scan disk on this hard drive tho half way through i had a power cut. Since that moment this drive has been dead. Windows does not recongnize the drive at all, if you goto the event log all you see is hundreds of bad sector warnings. The bios recongizes the drive, and thats about it. Oh also the drive makes a funny noise when it tries to spin. Can anyone recommend anything to get some of my data off this drive.. Many Thanks |
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:48:14 GMT, "Steve W"
wrote: Though it sounds as if you may have more extensive problems with this hard drive, I recommend Spinrite 6 by Gibson Research. It may be able to recover the data on the drive. You can read more about it at www.grc.com SpinRite will not fix logical drives to my knolwedge. You might want to take a look at the thread entitled INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE on this forum. -- "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." --Ronald Reagan |
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