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

If the old disk is the one that is "physically" corrupted - I wouldn't even
try. You have no idea (neither do I) what you may end up with because of
lost system files.

BTW, EasyRecovery Professional is the program I have standardized on for
file recovery. You made a very wise, if expensive, choice!

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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!



"Rob.T" <Rob.T.2c6c6r@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Richard Urban Wrote:
Google for file recovery programs. Some are free and work. Some you pay
for
and they work a lot better.

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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!



"Rob.T" Rob.T.2c56iq@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in message
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Richard Urban Wrote:[color=green][i]
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. I did as you suggested, and I was able to
recover most of my data with Ontrack Easy Recovery Professional. A
highly recommended program from one satisfied customer!!

Can you assist regarding where I can get some detailed directions as to
how no move my operating system from the old disk to the new one?

Thanks again!!




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Rob.T


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