Re: Advice on Hard Drive Error
From: DL (dl_at_spoofmail.com)
Date: 03/02/04
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:19:56 -0000
Recently I had an error on a the slave, non sys. drive. This prevented
booting. Presumably because the o/s got an error on this when trying to
boot.
WD probably has a disk checking utility, apart from the std win.chkdisk
utility. If you are able to boot you may be able to run this.
Even if you are able to reserect this hd, you should consider it compromised
and not use for any critical data.
"HippyFish Fish@easynews.com>" <Hippy<nospam> wrote in message
news:Xns94A067058CBD3HippyFisheasynewscom@140.99.99.130...
> I've been having trouble booting XP (stops after XP splash
> screen with Disk Error message and reboots) and I think I
> have traced the problem to a bad hard drive. My WD 120GB
> Video Drive appears to be corrupt (Disk Management shows it
> as RAW format). I am trying to reformat it now (no critical
> data on it). Basically, as XP is loading it is getting an
> error on that drive and causing the system to restart. Then
> it goes into a loop doing that. Oddly enough, the drive is
> showing up in BIOS just fine, though.
>
> The event log is full of stop errors referencing the Video
> Drive (bad block) and I literally had to hack my way back
> into XP to even get to a point where I could see the OS (used
> Recovery Console to replace some start up files from the
> Repair folder, got me into basic XP. I hope to be able to
> copy the System Restore files to get me where I can back up
> some settings and then clean reinstall XP)
>
> What I want to know is: do I probably need to replace this
> drive, or will reformatting get my OS stable again
> (particularly after a reinstall)? And, how common is it for a
> non boot drive to wreak such havoc on the OS?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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