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Hard Drive Failure imminent!!!!

  • 28-03-2011 12:33am
    #1
    cursai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭


    Hard Drive Failure imminent!!!

    Computer starts up with Warning: Hard Drive Failure imminent. Back up data now...and the quotes my hdd number!!!

    Is it beyond fixing. Have no way of backing up information as my computer wont copy files from the C: or D: drive!!!!!


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  • #2
    seithon
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭seithon


    Sounds pretty bad :(
    Still if it is booting up try copying data to a USB drive ?
    Or tell us any error messages that occur when you try to copy.


  • #3
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Download and burn the iso of Ubuntu and boot from that. See if you can copy files to an external disk then.

    http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Unfortunately, with a lot of hard drives, by the time you get this warning the drive is already at death's door. You can really only try using a live CD (as mentioned above) to see if you can get anything off it. At this stage, even trying to access the drive could make it worse.


  • #5
    cursai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    POOO!!!
    Don't know how to boot or burn from ubuntu.
    Can't copy over files as copying process stalls about a minute in!
    How does this happen. Computer is only about eight months old!


  • #6
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    This worked for me once

    http://lifehacker.com/#!5515337/save-a-failed-hard-drive-in-your-freezer-redux


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  • #7
    cursai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    Thanks im running a back up now. will ring the PC man tommorrow and see waht he says!!! The girlfriend will blame the whole thing on me!


  • #8
    ricman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭ricman


    Use windows system restore ,to go back to last restore point , or burn data to cds.You,ll lose all data made after restore point .
    Go to linuxmint.com ,download x86 ,mint iso file ,use imgburn to burn image file,reboot pc with linux cd in the cddrive .I ,t will load linux from the cd ,allowing you to browse drive c and copy to a usb drive.


  • #9
    cursai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    ricman wrote: »
    Use windows system restore ,to go back to last restore point , or burn data to cds.You,ll lose all data made after restore point .
    Go to linuxmint.com ,download x86 ,mint iso file ,use imgburn to burn image file,reboot pc with linux cd in the cddrive .I ,t will load linux from the cd ,allowing you to browse drive c and copy to a usb drive.

    Thanks but the pc man is looking at taking the info off it then ill drop the thing back to AaARvey norman to get a new hdd


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