Re: Best hard drive repair software?...

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Thingy,

Good info thanks. I have two external Maxtor one touch 250GB firewire
drives. Both have been working great but it seems as they are filling up I
am getting more errors. The errors are fixed during XP boot up, but these
fixes are randomly deleting and repairing bad sectors, so I am losing data.

All the data on both drives I have duplicate copies on duplicate CDs (yes I
am good!) so no need for recovery. Really I just want to somehow fix the
drives, get software that can map out bad sectors so they are not used.
Again the drives have been working great but it seems as they are getting
more and more full I am having more errors pop up.

Any suggestions are great..thanks

Frank

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"Thingy" <strokie2003@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>
>> Having some errors on external hard drives and need a good software
>> program that can repair and get external drives in shape...any
>> suggestions?
>
> Most decent hard disk repair software[1] will gost you about the same
> price as
> a new hard disk, so if this is for a home PC, it's not really worth it.
> The first thing you
> have to do is get as much of the data as possible off the hard disk you're
> having
> problems with - put it onto a different hard disk, not just a partition on
> the
> disk that is playing up. If you can get all the data off the drive, then
> open up a
> command window, and type in:
> chkdsk z: /f /r
> (where z: is the drive letter of the disk)
> If that's no good, *AND YOU HAVE ALL THE DATA COPIED OFF THE DRIVE*
> format the disk, but don't use a quick format, copy (not move) the data
> back
> to the drive and see if the problems happen again. If they do, then you
> will
> most likely need a new drive.
>
> I'm guessing this external drive is using USB or firewire. If that's the
> case there's
> a 99% chance it is simply an EIDE hard disk, which you can remove from the
> external case and simply replace the disk.
> If the drive is a standard one, and you've managed to get the data off it
> before it
> starts throwing errors, you could take the drive out of the external case,
> put it internally and use a drive diagnostic tool to see if that can
> detect anything
> unusual - most manufacturers have these tools available from their
> websites.
>
> I've got to also point out that before you do anything with that disk, you
> have got to
> see if you can copy the data off first, as some recovery programs can be a
> tad aggressive
> when trying to recover data - if the recovery program fails, then you
> could wind up
> with a dead disk and no data at all[2]. If that happens, I suggest you
> find a soft wall
> to bang your head against, because brick ones hurt. :-)
>
> [1] Thinking specifically Easy Recovery Pro, here.
> [2] Unless you want to spent insane amounts of money.
>
> --
> Thingy.
>


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