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Headcheese
11-15-2003, 03:19 PM
Well, my drive has crashed or something. I cannot seem to get anything to work. Here is what happened and what I have done so far, to no avail.

Got a missing .dll file error on boot.

After i tried a few work arounds, decided to just fdisk abd format my C: drive as my files are on other partitions.

Fdisked, and when i formatted, it aborted the Format after 7%. "trying to recover file allocation unit blah blah blah" Is what it says while trying to format.

Scandisk will not scan the drive

When I try to set up Win98, or Win2K, it says there is not enough disk space free.

I have some files i really do not want to loose on the extended partitions, but I do not know what to do. If I could get an OS up, I can home network by my laptop to copy the files onto the Laptops HD and just wipw the whole desktop drive and startover, but I cannot get onto the desktop through the LAN with it like it is now (don't know how)

help please
glc
11-15-2003, 05:59 PM
Remove the hard drive and slave it into another computer to rescue your files - or install a good drive in your computer and put an OS on it, then slave it in. Then run WD Data Lifeguard on it, get the error code, and get a warranty replacement.
Headcheese
11-17-2003, 09:03 AM
Is the Datalifeguard bootable from a CD? I have a new HDD on order, and I plan to remove the old one from the system to make sure nothing boogers the new one up during install, but Id like to check the status of the old one if i can before I install the new one so I know what Im dealing with.
HAL9000
11-17-2003, 09:11 AM
Datalifguard tools are put on a bootable floppy, not CD.
kilgoretrout
11-17-2003, 10:34 AM
The old drive may still be good but the mbr may be corrupted. If it checks out good with the hard drive utility then you can repair it by zero filling the drive with the above mentioned utility but you'll lose all your data so try backing up first.
Headcheese
11-17-2003, 10:53 AM
Originally posted by HAL9000
Datalifguard tools are put on a bootable floppy, not CD.

The file is 3.xx Mb. Whats the proceedure for making a bootable floppy?
Headcheese
11-17-2003, 02:01 PM
"click start to create boot disk"


Doh.