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Hard Drive Dying: Urgent!

  • 08-06-2004 9:15am
    #1
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭


    I think me feckin HD is dying. A few weeks ago i lost everything on it due to an error spotted by Partition magic (but it was too late to stop partition magic, it was on 95%).

    So a few days ago i reformatted and reinstalled everything. Now windows is popping up quite a lot of "Corrupt file" errors. What can i use to scan the drive to see exactly whats wrong. SCandisk won't work on the drive, and partition magic thinks the drive is "unformatted"

    Aaaagghhh


Comments

  • #2
    daveyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭daveyjoe


    First things first backup anything important on you're hard drive now.
    Scandisk for XP is actually quite good compared to it's defrag product, the only alternative that I've used is Disk Checker http://www.rssoftlab.com/diskchecker.php
    If this fails, first of all give all the scsi cables a good checking, a lot of the time they are not in place properly, you can try another format and install if you want, but I don't think there's much point.

    If it's a relatively new drive you might be able to RMA it, I've found that Hard drive makers are pretty good at replacing broken drives.

    If your drives gone then it's gone, there's absoloutely nothing you can do to fix it. By the way it's very unlikely but perform a memcheck, I was sure that it was my hard drive fecking up before but it was actually my ram.


  • #3
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    running it now, thanks.

    And i'm 99% sure its a disc problem, what with folders being unreadable. I really dont want to have to run memtest, as if i reboot, the drive might not load up again. Wish me luck...


  • #4
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    I'd suggest downloading the drive repair utility for your manufacturers drives. Most of them ae linked to on the UltimateBootCD homepage. They can be very effective in diagnosing and repairing drive errors/problems.


  • #5
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    IBM/Hitachi replaced my 3 year old 40gig drive a few weeks ago with a shiny new one manufactured last month. Had it back to me in about a week. Fair play.


  • #6
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    could try running chkdsk with the /f switch. can quite often find and fix problems where everything else fails.

    you'll have do do it from a DOS window though obviously.

    I have a number of Iomega 80gb USB drives here at work that we use for moving large amounts of data around. they were getting about 40gb per day written/read then deleted and after a couple of months they really started to play up. they were getting plugged into 7 or 8 PC's per day each and it just started to ge tthe better of them.

    one eventually died completely, but I managed to rescue the others by running chkdsk/f to get them working properly (i.e. without errors) and then once I had them up and running again did a long ntfs format to be sure. now another 2 omnths down the line they are all still working, albeit with a much lighter workload.


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