PC help!!! (Hard drive question)

[*turtleb16a]

Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 5:16 pm

This is the issue in short. My hard drive crapped out on me... tried to reboot in safe mode with no success.

Used another drive reloaded everything and tried to use the messed up drive as a slave... When my PC is using the new drive, its fast as hell… but when I add the crapped out one to the secondary… it hangs for minutes before anything comes up… tried to bring up the control panel and it show the second drive but can’t access it..

When I try loading with just the crapped out drive, it hangs for 2 minutes at verifying DMI pool then asks me to enter a “technical parameter”.


This is the question:

Is there anyway to retrieve the data?
Is the drive still good and how can I check?

And yes, I changed the crapped out drive from Master to Slave…any help appreciated

[*BobP]

Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 11:59 am

Your hard drive is most likely gone forever. There are some companies that specialize in getting some data from these drives. If you really need what's on that hard drive, find one of them. I think there's a company called data doctors, but I don't know if they are national. Sucess depends on what happened. If there was a head crash, recovery of anything at all is unlikely. Good luck.

[*dkerr]

Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 1:19 pm

I agree, this does definitely sound like a hard drive failure. You most likely will never be able to recover anything from the old drive. Unless your are in a business that absolutely needs the data on the old hard drive , I would bit the bullet and simply take the loss and throw the old drive out. There are data recovery business out there that specialize in data recovery of failed hard drives but don't expect it to be cheap, and no-one can guantee the degree of sucess even with those data recovery business, it depends on the nature and severity of the hard drive damage, it is pain-staking proceedure and that is why it is not cheap.

Anyone can lose a hard drive, that is why it is always very advisable to backup inportant data , off the hard drive, such as burning to cd, zip drive or other backup devices