Re: moving boot drive to new HD & recovering data from corrupt HD


Richard Urban Wrote:
Replace the drive!

The last bit of information, excessive reallocated sectors, sheds a
different light on your problem. You don't have logical disk
corruption. You
have physical disk problems, and these can not be corrected.

During manufacture of a hard drive, x amount of extra, unused sectors,
are
kept in reserve on the drive. These are never written to. If the drive

suffers from physical problems, and sectors become bad, they are
switched
out with the spares (logically, of course). When the store of spares
has
been used up, the drive, for all practical purposes, should be disposed
of.
Many do not wait for the problem to become this large and trash a drive
when
the first few are detected. Where one lives, others are certain to
populate.

Remember the difference between logical corruption and physical
corruption/damage. And be certain to explain, as best and completely as
you
can exactly what error messages have been seen with regards to the
problem.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

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!


Thanks for that Richard. So I know the drive is nackered, and I'll
send it in to WD for a replacement. Do you think any of the data on
the "E:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and
unreadable" partition is recoverable?? That's really the only error
message, other than "NTLDR is missing; press CTRL+ALT+DEL" when it
restarts.
Thanks!




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Rob.T
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