Re: Winternals 5.0

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You might try Spinrite. I've never userd it but a quick search at google
groups shows that a lot of people have had success with it. Good luck.
http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
Louis

<denglish48060@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have a crashed hard drive when booting reads; A disk read error
> occurred, press ctrl+alt+del to restart. I have tried many different
> things including making a cd boot disk "ERD Commander 2005" which was
> told would fix the problem or at least enable me to copy over some
> important files. After booting with the cd and arriving at the page
> where you select the drive you want to fix and setting the time zone
> etc. doesn't show any drives to choose from. Any suggestions where to
> go from here? The hard drive is a western digital 4.3G and has win 2000
> pro ntfs. Many thanks, David
>


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