Re: Transferring files from one HD to another EXACTLY !
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 08:27:51 -0400
Andy,
Now that you have, more or less, concluded that the drive is bad - and that
you will lose everything on it - there is one thing left to try. You said
you re-formatted the drive and the format fails.
Delete all partitions off of the drive. Make it just as it was when the
drive was new - empty. This will clear out the MBR and partitions tables.
Now create a new partition and try one last time to format the NEW partition
as NTFS. I have seen this work.
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
"Andy" <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dao0v3$avu$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cheers for that !. Yes i have now tried other ways, but have definitely
> come
> to the conclusion the Hard Drive IS faulty !. It always stops at 49%
> whether
> i'm reformatting, Scan disking etc. I have even plugged it in as a USB HD
> and tried Scandisk from there, again it sticks at 49% !!!!
>
> Cheers
> Andy
>
>
>
> "Chelsea" <gallium1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uHLdSFTgFHA.3788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Anna is right Andy, don't give up on your hard disk too soon One last
>> thought, look in your system bios and see if something described as
>> S.M.A.R.T is enabled. That is hardware level code that will talk to the
> IDE
>> controller on your hard disk. The idea is for the sensors in the hard
>> disk
>> to tell the system via SMART that the disk is about to fail or is
> faulty-if
>> that is the case SMART warns the user on startup and this gives the user
>> time to save data and maybe backup. Almost all hard disks made in the
>> last
>> 2-3 years use SMART. If SMART is on and there is no error and if you
>> still
>> want to persevere with that drive try finding a copy of Partition
>> Magic-there are trials around. Partition Magic formats a hard disk
> thousands
>> of times faster than Windows. I have no idea how it does this, it just
> does.
>> Good luck
>>
>> Chelsea
>>
>>
>
>
.
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