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bad hard drive

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sedgy

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Mar 19, 2004
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AU
hello
my secondary hard disk is screwed and i want to know how to fix it. first of all i think i know why it screwed up. i was running kazaa overnight and was downloading a large file. the file exceeded the size of my hard drive and when it did get to the last of the space on the drive the computer restarted, with the drive's contents gone and the drive now RAW instead of FAT. i did run a data recovery tool and got half of it back. i decided to get the rest of the data later. the next day i ran error check on the drive and a few weird files popped up on the drive. ever since i error checked it when i try to recover files it freezes, and the hard drive keeps dissapering and reappearing. HELP! to recover files and fix the hard drive
 
I suspect a virus or ad-ware came with kazaa. Also try fdisk /mbr on the problem drive, the large file may have overwritten the mbr.
 
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