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Vista deleting 2nd HDD

  • 28-04-2007 2:06pm
    #1
    Stephen P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭


    Another Vista problem...

    On 2 occasions now when I reboot Vista after installing drivers for something chkdsk kicks in on restart and deletes everything from a 2nd hard drive I have. The first time it deleted loads of video files the second time only 1 file. Now the drive is not accessible when I try to explore it. Is the drive corrupted beyond repair? The first time it happened I formatted the drive and it seemed ok, I don't want to go messing with it again incase I'm wasting my time.

    Any advice would be appreciated!


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  • #2
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    It could be the start of a failing hdd. You can get a hdd regenerator, I seen one recover a hdd not too long ago so that it could be ghosted to a new drive. I will find out what its called and post it here. How old is the drive in question?


  • #3
    Stephen P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Stephen P


    Hal1 wrote:
    It could be the start of a failing hdd. You can get a hdd regenerator, I seen one recover a hdd not too long ago so that it could be ghosted to a new drive. I will find out what its called and post it here. How old is the drive in question?

    Thanks mate. The drive is roughly a year and a half old.


  • #4
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Right, the program ████████ I mentioned to you earlier is from ████████, I dont know if you are familar with it. You need to download this and burn onto a disk, and set the cdrom or dvd to boot first by entering the bios program. That will load up the ████████. Navigate your way to the HDD Tools section and locate ████████and run it on the failing hdd. This is just one way to recover a bad or failing hdd and there are many usefull tools all on the████████t will save you having to google everytime something goes wrong with your pc.

    Hope you are able to follow all that. :)

    READ the charter on Crackz and Warez /CM


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    This is NOT a recomendation for this program - it's a link to the price.

    http://www.dposoft.net/
    HDD Regenerator 1.51 $59.95
    HDD Regenerator is a unique program for regeneration of physically damaged hard disk drives. It does not hide bad sectors, it really restores them!


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml - list of utils

    http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/
    http://www.ubcd4win.com/contents.htm - windows boot cd with utils


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  • #7
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    There is a list of freeware utilities on the site. I tought that particular item was freeware sorry for any upset or breech of forum rules. :o


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