Re: Is Fixing a broken Hard Drive possible?
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:13:25 -0500
Try it and report back to the news group with your findings.
How about a link to some of ton of reviews you have read? I would like to
read them also.
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Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Al" <Al@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I heard that HDD Regenerator actually somehow fixes physical problems. Has
> anyone used it? I read a ton of reviews about it and everyone seemed
> amazed
> that it could erase bad sectors. Some people said it took over 3 days to
> scan a 100 gig hard drive, but afterwards managed to get the drive working
> again with 90 gig of space free.
>
> If its a myth it's pretty unusual that so many people claim that it works.
>
> Al
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
>> You can't fix a hardware type problem with software. It takes screw
>> drivers
>> and wrenches. If your drive is actually bad (physically defective) there
>> is
>> no software in the world that is going to fix it.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> Quote from George Ankner:
>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>> "Al" <Al@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:A6F1937A-A309-4559-B404-E5380B69A682@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hey all, I have an 80 and 60 Gig Maxtor Hard Drive. The 80 Gig one has
>> > my
>> > system files and works okay, the 60 gig one is a data disk. If I try
>> > to
>> > boot
>> > up with the 60 gig drive in as a slave (like I have done for years) the
>> > computer fails to start and tells me that it cant read from the slave
>> > drive.
>> >
>> > I heard about HDD Regenerator, and Hirens Boot Disk...but not sure
>> > about
>> > the
>> > legality of either. Either way, I downloaded HDD Regenerator but my
>> > floppy
>> > drive doesnt work, and the iso couldnt be burned onto a bootable cd.
>> > When
>> > I
>> > tried in nero to make a bootable cd it asked me to instal a "bootable
>> > diskette" into drive a:
>> >
>> > I have been experiencing system failures recently, and my motherboard,
>> > cpu,
>> > ram and graphics card are all new, so I suspect my master hd could have
>> > errors too.
>> >
>> > Basically, is there any legal and trustworthy program available to help
>> > me
>> > fix a hard drive of any make? The maxtor utilities didnt specify any
>> > such
>> > software...and max blast 4 couldnt detect any maxtor hds...but I think
>> > it
>> > was
>> > just a hard drive installer utility.
>> >
>> > Thanks for any help and suggestions.
>> > Alex
>>
>>
>>
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