Re: Hard Disk Failure

Hi,

If you can still see the drive in Disk Management as unallocated or unknown,
etc, you might try the TestDisk and or Photorec app to recover or
write/repair the MBR, if your up for the challenge..?
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

First though, get the Partinfo app and see if it can see the slaved drives
MBR or what's left of it, post it, your call..
http://terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html

Also have heard good results using this the apps here, if your up to it..?
http://www.partitionsupport.com/

Have you tried running the HDD's diagnostic tool to check for errors on the
affected HDD..?
Hope it can help..
Cheers
j;-j

"DannyBoy" <dandeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 25 Feb, 13:58, "philo" <p...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Hi there

I have a machine with XP Home on it and I use it alot. The problem is
that my hard disk seems to have become unreadable and therefore I cant
get it to boot. I dont want to format the drive at this point as there
is so much stuff on the hard disk that I want to try to keep. The hard
disk is partitioned into 2 drives. C: is NTFS and it has XP home and
all my apps and data etc... D: is FAT32 and has a recovery partiton on
it that enough data to restore to factory defaults.
I found an old hard disk and installed XP pro on it and then installed
partition magic on to it. I was hoping that it would automatically fix
the HD geometry problem but sadly it did not. I ran the Partition Info
tool on the drives and this is the result. I am woundering if anyone
can help me to fix the hard disk but without having to loose all the
data on the disk.

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Ok...don't fool around trying to "repair" the drive or you may end up
loosing your data...

First off...slave the drive to your present...working XP drive...
boot up and see if you can read the data....
and then back it up.

If you cannot read the data...then try some data recovery software- Hide
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Thanks philo

I have slaved it and I cannot read the drive using any of the standard
ways. I have not tried any data recovery software yet is there any
products that you can recommend.

Thanks once again

Regards

DannyBoy



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