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 Member 524 Level 28.48 Mar 2006 |
Computer failing to boot up -- Hard Drive problem?
My parents' computer has decided to not boot up, and I was kind of at a loss for the cause. From what I could tell (and via phone, my uncle as well, who is a computer God) it seemed like it was from a corrupted Windows file. However, when I finally got CHKDSK to run, it instantly started listing off lots of corrupted sectors on the harddrive.
I'm not exactly a computer wizard. I do pretty well for myself and fixing 'everyday' computer fuckery with my own computers and my friends' computers, but this has me rather stumped. I pulled out the harddrive in question and slapped it in an enclosure to see if I could get anything off of it through my laptop, but alas -- nothing. It appears that my laptop tries to mount the drive (ie: it makes the sound when a USB device is connected), but then makes the disconnect sound without ever registering that a disk was ever there. The drive goes on, it spins... but that's about all it does. I don't know if that's enough information to go on, but I appreciate any advice you can give. I would like to know if the hard drive is completely toast -- and if it is, I still need to either take it to my uncle or a data recovery place, because there's an awful lot of stuff on it that I would kind of like to have.  Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 524 Level 28.48 Mar 2006 |
What about the whole "put the hard drive in the freezer" thing? Does that hold any water?
In the meantime, I'll go look at that SpinRite. I really don't want to lose more of the stuff on the drive than I have to, and I'd rather not have to pay for data recovery (especially since 95% of that stuff was free to begin with  )...thanks for the reply! Most amazing jew boots |
Member 524 Level 28.48 Mar 2006 |
Well, I got my parents a new HD and slaved the failing drive...as of right now, I used GetDataBack to access the folder that had all of my stuff on it. Lucky for me, the only folders with massive corruption (that I cared about) were affiliated with DC++ downloads. I had to get around some previous password/ownership issues to get to my stuff, though -- hence, using GetDataBack.
I've almost copied everything of importance to a backup drive. Thanks so much for the comments and suggestions!  This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
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