hi there
My hard drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB Hard Disk Drive - 7200rpm and is split into 2 partitions:
-C: which has XP, apps and is 20gb
-D: has all my data stored and is 60gb
Last week my comp kept on hanging on the Windows XP Prof start screen, which is black with a moving bar at the bottom, and did not let me login.
So i took the HD out and put into an older PC as a slave drive. I was able to see all the data on both partitions of the HD the first time but the next time i rebooted, the "C" drive of the slave didnt let me in, saying "you need to format this disk" but this did not happen with the D drive on the slave.
Then i used recovery console on the XP CD using the CHKDSK /R. this stopped on 25% on the C: drive and on 75% on the D: drive.
I then reinstalled XP on the C drive (back in my new comp), thinking that i would solve my problems. However wen i booted the system XP started to check for file or disk consistency using CHKDSK and listed a number of "filerecord segments" which were deemed to be "unreadible". After this i decided to install Nero on the C drive and tryed to burn my stuff from the second partition D:. However, the burn process failed when i tried to burn some of the files.
It was clear to me that the HD was failing and verified this using PowerMax software availible from maxtor.com. This gave me a warning that the hard drive was failing as well as a "deada379" code which I couldnot use since my warranty on the HD has run out!
Obviously im gonna have to buy a new HD and am thinking of getting a 80gb Hitachi Deskstar 7K250. also i intend to make the failing Hard drive a slave and in that way slowly retrieve data from the D: drive by copying it accross.
-is this a good idea?
-how can i minimise the loss of data from hard drive since i noticed that wen trying to delete some files on the D: i get a "cyclic redundancy" message?
-im assuming that the less i try to modify any data the less it will affect the corruption, though does simply accessing the data effect the corruption?
-also, wen ive HOPEFULLY retrieved the data, deleted all partitions and formated the failing HD, is there any way of using/fixing it so i can boost my capicity to 160gb with the new one
(though this isnt essential but would be a big advantage)
???
Hope u read all that, SORRY for the long post and i hope u can answer my queries and give me some HELP!!!!
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE
My hard drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB Hard Disk Drive - 7200rpm and is split into 2 partitions:
-C: which has XP, apps and is 20gb
-D: has all my data stored and is 60gb
Last week my comp kept on hanging on the Windows XP Prof start screen, which is black with a moving bar at the bottom, and did not let me login.
So i took the HD out and put into an older PC as a slave drive. I was able to see all the data on both partitions of the HD the first time but the next time i rebooted, the "C" drive of the slave didnt let me in, saying "you need to format this disk" but this did not happen with the D drive on the slave.
Then i used recovery console on the XP CD using the CHKDSK /R. this stopped on 25% on the C: drive and on 75% on the D: drive.
I then reinstalled XP on the C drive (back in my new comp), thinking that i would solve my problems. However wen i booted the system XP started to check for file or disk consistency using CHKDSK and listed a number of "filerecord segments" which were deemed to be "unreadible". After this i decided to install Nero on the C drive and tryed to burn my stuff from the second partition D:. However, the burn process failed when i tried to burn some of the files.
It was clear to me that the HD was failing and verified this using PowerMax software availible from maxtor.com. This gave me a warning that the hard drive was failing as well as a "deada379" code which I couldnot use since my warranty on the HD has run out!
Obviously im gonna have to buy a new HD and am thinking of getting a 80gb Hitachi Deskstar 7K250. also i intend to make the failing Hard drive a slave and in that way slowly retrieve data from the D: drive by copying it accross.
-is this a good idea?
-how can i minimise the loss of data from hard drive since i noticed that wen trying to delete some files on the D: i get a "cyclic redundancy" message?
-im assuming that the less i try to modify any data the less it will affect the corruption, though does simply accessing the data effect the corruption?
-also, wen ive HOPEFULLY retrieved the data, deleted all partitions and formated the failing HD, is there any way of using/fixing it so i can boost my capicity to 160gb with the new one
(though this isnt essential but would be a big advantage)
???
Hope u read all that, SORRY for the long post and i hope u can answer my queries and give me some HELP!!!!
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE