Re: Failed Hard Drive
From: David Kelsey (david_kelseyNO_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/12/04
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:51:54 +0100
Thanks guys! What pessimists you both are! You will no doubt be
overwhelmed with delight to hear that I have now recovered all my vital
files and most of the rest with the assistance of a program called
Filerecovery, from LC Technology, which says it all really. Although they
make no dramatic claims for it, and it is intended mainly to recover deleted
files, it in fact reclaims files and folders (an unstated feature) in
minutes, and allows them to be saved wherever.
Thank you, Richard, for your kind advice to back up. Like most people I
know, I do back up fairly regularly, but as my life does not entirely
revolve round my computer, I don't always keep the backups up to date. It
would be helpful if there were a method of backing up 80 Gigs plus 40 Gigs
regularly on a schedule, but as far as I know, they haven't invented
anything that I can afford that changes disks automatically and does the
business while I am in bed. Perhaps life will be better when we can buy the
double sided double depth DVDs that have been promised for some time now,
but that will still only be 17 GB, I believe, and I would not want to bet my
life on their reliability, would you? It might turn out to be like the
supposed 500,000 hours or 57 years MTBF quoted for hard disks these days,
which in my personal experience, amounts in practice to about three years,
for the three disks I have had fail.
David Kelsey
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Oq4xi7sfEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Your drive is physically defective. There is nothing you can do but send
it
> to a company that specializes in drive recovery. It IS expensive!
>
> Next time, back up all that is valuable. Drives always fail. It's not if,
> but when!
>
> --
> Regards:
>
> Richard Urban
>
> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
>
> "David Kelsey" <david_kelseyNO@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23yVw2KsfEHA.3548@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > My 40GB Seagate hard drive failed with a SMART warning (which thereafter
> > was
> > not repeated) and chkdsk discovered 4 sectors, 37224 to 37227, which
could
> > not be read, plus 'null is unreadable'. There was also a blue screen
> > which
> > was too fast to read, as normal for XP. On attempts to read it, the
drive
> > gave either 'Error performing inpage operation' (sic) or 'Parameter is
> > incorrect'. The machine would not boot, or enter safe mode, or read the
> > floppy, but it would boot from the XP CD. The option to repair XP was
not
> > offered, but the console was, but not working properly. I fitted a new
> > 80GB
> > drive as master, with the old one as slave, but it continued to give the
> > same errors. The old drive, formerly the C: boot drive, became F:, and
> > was
> > recognised in the BIOS and in Explorer most of the time, but would
> > sometimes
> > disappear. Various recovery programs were tried, without success,
except
> > for the Virtual Lab one, which found a large number of files, but then
> > required about $150 to enable copying them to the new drive, which I
can't
> > afford. I have backups, but only of vital stuff, and then not all that
> > recent, so I would like to try to restore the drive without losing any
> > files
> > that have not already been trashed. The drive itself is still under
> > guarantee, but Seagate will not make any attempt at recovery of files.
> > Both
> > drives are NTFS, and I have re-installed XP on the new clean drive,
which
> > works well, as long as the old drive is not connected, when it slows the
> > whole machine down. The data seems tantalisingly close, but I can't
find
> > the touchstone that will release it.
> > Can anyone give me any pointers towards saving the data please?
> >
> > David Kelsey
> >
> >
>
>
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