Re: corrupted HDD

Gimly123 wrote:

I know there is nothing more I can do to recover this data, i'm more interested in why this may have happened.
I have a new box with a P2 2.8, 80 gig SATA drive (1 partition, NTFS) , 512 memory. windows XP Pro.
I wanted to transfer a few files from the old dell box (windows 98SE) onto the new one. I pulled the HDD( 13 Gig ATA) out of the dell made it a slave and plugged it into the new box. everything seemed to be fine at this point, the new box booted up just fine. however when I tryed to read the data from the 13 gig drive it took forever to get into any of the directories. I rebooted once more thinking this might help but when I tried to access the drive it said the drive had been corrupted. after screwing around with it for a couple hours I am now at the point where it says the drive needs to be formatted. As I said before I know the data is gone. I'm just curios as to why this may have happened.
Any Ideas?


Without knowing exactly what you did while "screwing around with it for a couple hours" it's nearly impossible to say what went wrong. It could be hard drive failure or bad sectors, it could be file system corruption or a driver or even a RAM issue. Please tell us exactly what you did.

I would double check drive cabling and jumpering, run a chkdsk /f /r against the drive in question. Then download and run the manufaturer's diagnostics for that drive.

Steve N.

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