Re: Why can't I see the data?

From: David Candy (.)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 03:06:55 +1100

Well time is critical. The data will disappear with time.

You have one or more bad sectors in a critical area. One of more of these bad sectors can still be read sometimes (why the drive is slow - the computer is making multiple attempts to read the data and sometimes suceeding so its slow rather than an error).

Usually the drive is about to become totally useless. Get the data off now and put up with the slowness. Even if the data can't be found this second it may be found on a second attempt.

In Dos one held down the R key (retry the read) and for CDRom in 9x one held down Enter (it would retry and eventually suceed and on to the next sector - for CDrom a coffee cup on the enter key and walk away worked well) 

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"josh82443" <josh82443@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1EB49168-7D6E-46F1-B7F8-8E5BACDE9770@microsoft.com...
> Sorry for my poor wording. I'm only trying to back up the data this way 
> because the user didn't back up the data themselves before they started 
> having the problem.
> 
> "Doug Kanter" wrote:
> 
>> I hope nobody pays you for this service.
>> 
>> 1) You give them a false sense of security. If data's important enough to 
>> back up, it should be done VERY often, which means daily for some people, 
>> weekly for others. Or, to simplify things, it should be done as often as any 
>> new work is done on the machine. How often do you take out peoples' hard 
>> disks?
>> 
>> 2) Hard disks are rugged, but still susceptible to damage from static 
>> electricity. Every time you remove one, you are putting someone's data and 
>> hardware at risk. That's stupid.
>> 
>> 
>> "josh82443" <josh82443@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
>> news:02E2F374-02F2-4901-8B9C-10CD3B61D3F9@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi I do some work on computers sometimes I back up data for people. I do 
>> > this
>> > by taking the hard drive out of their computer then adding it to mine then 
>> > I
>> > copy the whole hard drive. My problem is that I've noticed a couple of 
>> > times
>> > when doing so that my computer (Windows Xp Pro) can't find the data on the
>> > hard drive. This last time a person was having problems trying to boot in 
>> > to
>> > XP Pro (The Computer keeps coming up to the safe mode option if you choose
>> > any option it starts to load then goes to a blue screen flashes for a 
>> > second
>> > can't even do a pause to see what it says. Then reboots and does the same
>> > thing over and over again) So I know that the hard drive still has some 
>> > data
>> > on it (i.e. It still try's to boot) but when the hard drive is hooked up 
>> > to
>> > my computer. It makes my computer run slow. I did a virus scan nothing. I
>> > tried looking for data on the hard drive but it wouldn't let me access
>> > it.(i.e. like it was not formatted) when I right clicked  on the hard 
>> > drive
>> > and went to properties it said the there was no data.
>> >
>> > Any ideas why I can't see this data?
>> >
>> > Thank you for your Time and Help!
>> > Josh
>> >
>> > P.S The Last the last thing the customer did to their computer was 
>> > unpluged
>> > a USB scanner. That's when the looping of boot-up started. 
>> 
>> 
>>
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