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Dead hard drive

  • 31-01-2007 8:29pm
    #1
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I've got a 160Gb hard drive that started giving me read problems and less then 2 days later seemed to be 100% dead. Windows and my bios will detect it and assign it a drive letter but when I try to view the contents, it asks me if I'd like to format it or not.

    So do I:

    a) Quick format it and use a file recovery program to grab the files I need (they won't have been wiped during the transfer)

    b) Figure out a way so that Windows sees the present file structure (using a HDD recovery program that boots from start-up into DOS and works on the drive outside of Windows)


    Any replies will be welcome !


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    File system is wrecked I think. Is it showing up under Disk Management (Start->Run->diskmgmt.msc)?


  • #3
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Yes, but it doesn't pick up what file system it is (NTFS).

    I'm pretty sure that I can't recreate the file system though...


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