HAY GUYS

seanne · Local time: Aug 20, 2007, 12:26 AM

Backuping, are these signs of a harddrive crash?

I doubt it's as serious as all that. I get CRC errors every now and then as well, when attempting to copy stuff. At worst it tens to mean that you won't be able to copy the files in question at all.

How ya doing, buddy?

seanne · Local time: Aug 20, 2007, 02:47 PM

How old is the drive? What's the level of fragmentation like? And have you run chkdsk at all? If check disk doesn't report any problems with the disk it shouldn't be that serious of a problem - yet. Specially if it turns out you've been lax with defragging.

Though, if you still want more reassurance you should download and run HDD Regenerator. This program will help you to repair any bad sectors on your drive. I've used the program many times in the past and I can attest to its effectiveness. If you download and run the free trial version it'll attempt to fix the first bad sector. It it was successful, hit up torrentspy for a cracked version and have it fix the rest of the drive.

However, in the event that it shouldn't be able to fix the first bad sector, as far as I know there's nothing you can really do. There must be something seriously wrong with the drive.

How ya doing, buddy?

seanne · Local time: Aug 20, 2007, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by LiquidAcid

Want to know what I think? This tool is fake. Anyone with a bit of hd technology knowledge knows that you won't get acess to the low level bits of the platters when using ATA commands. And you don't have anything else than ATA commands for access.

You calling me a liar?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

seanne · Local time: Aug 20, 2007, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Null

The only drawback might be the recovery time. It took me around 2 days to recover a 40Gb Maxtor HDD. This can be annoying if you have a huge Drive.

Hmm, last time I used it - on a crashed 200 GB Maxtor - I guess it took it about 12 hours to complete. So, as I guess the time it takes to recover any given hard drive depends on how many bad sectors it's got, it sounds to me like yours was in a pretty bad state =D

Oh, and that Maxtor drive has been working just fine ever since (must be a few years now).

How ya doing, buddy?