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Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:56 am Post subject:
Damaged partition Table and data Retrival |
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Hi,
I have a IBM deskstar drive which I have been using as a slave drive
with Windows XP Home for several months with no problems. However about
a month ago the computer took a long time to detect the drive and once
it eventually did it kept trying to read it but this no luck. Thus
completely slowed the boot up process of a minute to about 5 minutes. I
have tried to gain access to the drive via windows explorer but when I
click on the drive it just constantly tries to read the drive with no
luck (I can hear the drive working). I think when I tried booting up in
safe mode it came up with a comment like can't access or can't find the
partition table.
I have a couple of question which I hope someone out there may be able
to help me with:
1.Is there a way for me to repair this partition table?
2.If i can't repair how can i format the dive when windows will not let
me gain access to the drive.
I have tried the drive both as a master and slave but neither work
I would be gratful for any help.
Thanks |
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GBH
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Sun Nov 06, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject:
Re: Damaged partition Table and data Retrival |
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<paul.batch@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a IBM deskstar drive which I have been using as a slave drive
with Windows XP Home for several months with no problems. However about
a month ago the computer took a long time to detect the drive and once
it eventually did it kept trying to read it but this no luck. Thus
completely slowed the boot up process of a minute to about 5 minutes. I
have tried to gain access to the drive via windows explorer but when I
click on the drive it just constantly tries to read the drive with no
luck (I can hear the drive working). I think when I tried booting up in
safe mode it came up with a comment like can't access or can't find the
partition table.
I have a couple of question which I hope someone out there may be able
to help me with:
1.Is there a way for me to repair this partition table?
2.If i can't repair how can i format the dive when windows will not let
me gain access to the drive.
I have tried the drive both as a master and slave but neither work
I would be gratful for any help.
Thanks
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With it set as slave, try running CHKDSK /R
Geoff |
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DaveW
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:23 am Post subject:
Re: Damaged partition Table and data Retrival |
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You will NOT be able to format the harddrive because it has failed. Time to
get a new harddrive, I'm afraid.
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DaveW
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<paul.batch@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1131224160.710092.100180@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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Hi,
I have a IBM deskstar drive which I have been using as a slave drive
with Windows XP Home for several months with no problems. However about
a month ago the computer took a long time to detect the drive and once
it eventually did it kept trying to read it but this no luck. Thus
completely slowed the boot up process of a minute to about 5 minutes. I
have tried to gain access to the drive via windows explorer but when I
click on the drive it just constantly tries to read the drive with no
luck (I can hear the drive working). I think when I tried booting up in
safe mode it came up with a comment like can't access or can't find the
partition table.
I have a couple of question which I hope someone out there may be able
to help me with:
1.Is there a way for me to repair this partition table?
2.If i can't repair how can i format the dive when windows will not let
me gain access to the drive.
I have tried the drive both as a master and slave but neither work
I would be gratful for any help.
Thanks
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Ian East
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:31 am Post subject:
Re: Damaged partition Table and data Retrival |
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On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:23:01 -0800, "DaveW" <somewhere@zero.org> wrote:
| Quote: | You will NOT be able to format the harddrive because it has failed. Time to
get a new harddrive, I'm afraid.
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Yep.. The IBM Deathstar hard disks were so unreliable they got hit
with a class action lawsuit and eventually sold off their disk
division to Hitachi. The Hitachi Deskstars seem ok so far though. |
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