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  1. lazuli

    boot sector data recovery danger

    The boy wonder is in Poland and so am I. It could be a bit too far. The end result of my hard drive problem was a hardware failure, electronic or mechanical I`m not sure. IBM`s own DFT program was able to recover the drive by resetting all the parameters to zero but it failed again a week later...
  2. lazuli

    boot sector data recovery danger

    Thanks for the reply. As it turns out IBM`s own DFT program was able to completely restore the drive, by resetting all the parameters to zero; after which it worked perfectly. For a week. Now it has gone down again, exactly as before, and is being returned to IBM for replacement. From this I...
  3. lazuli

    boot sector data recovery danger

    To kshugart, Thank you for your response to my problem. As you will note that I am also a technical user you will understand that I do know how to use such software and do understand the principles and workings of computer parts and hard-drive systems, software and hardware. My comments about...
  4. lazuli

    boot sector data recovery danger

    I recently suffered a hard-disk failure following a new Windows 98/2000 dual boot installation (Windows 2000 disk manager read the disk as healthy but of unknown file format) and downloaded several demo recovery programmes from the internet. These proceded to make matters worse, to a horrendous...
  5. lazuli

    boot sector data recovery danger

    I recently suffered a hard-disk failure (Windows 2000 disk manager read the disk as healthy but of unknown file format) and downloaded several demo recovery programmes from the internet. These proceded to make matters worse, to a horrendous degree, even though they were only supposed to be...

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