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07-08-2004, 09:44 AM
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Hard disk problem?
Hi all,
My S-ATA hard disk died last night - when I turn on the PC I past all the BIOS stuff, to where Windows XP should boot up, but just get a blank screen, slightly lighter than if the monitor was switched off. At this point pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE reboots the machine. Used the XP disk to try the recovery console - chkdsk reported that the disk had some 'unrecoverable' sectors. Couldn't fixboot or fix master boot record. Couldn't format the disk either, after typing this in and hitting enter, it would just wait a few seconds before giving me the recovery console prompt again. A few days prior to last night's problems, the PC ran chkdsk automatically a few times on startup, solving some problems on the disk, which was worrying at the time. Anyhow, it seems to me I'm in trouble here. Is there anything I can do? Was planning to buy an IDE hard disk today and install XP on it - could I then use this as a main drive and 'look' into the S-ATA drive, and maybe transfer some of my files across? I've had bad luck so far with S-ATA and might avoid it for the time being. I would really like to recover what I can from the drive, but as it stands I just can access anything on it from the Windows recovery console (can't re-install XP either because of the problems). Any advice gratefully accepted |
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07-08-2004, 09:51 AM
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Well, you can try. If the drive has only some bad sectors, then you should be able to copy the rest off the drive.
Just out of curiosity, what is the hard drive model and how old was it ? RJ
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07-08-2004, 09:58 AM
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Seagate Barracuda 80gb. Only three months old.
Going to get a 80gb Maxtor IDE instead and see what I can do. I would get another SATA, or even two for RAID mirroring (have never set up a RAID array) - BUT this is the second SATA drive to fail on this new computer! So now I am worried about using any SATA drives. IDE for the moment as I've never had problems with that - and maybe the mobo doesn't like SATA and that is what caused the problems? |
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07-08-2004, 10:13 AM
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Seagate. . although some say that Seagate's quality is once again good, I still don't trust them.
Is the other hard drive also a Seagate ? I'd just stick with WD and Maxtor. RJ |
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07-08-2004, 11:01 AM
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Less than a year? Aren't you covered by Seagates warranty still?
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