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Hard Drive appears to have failed

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  • 04-04-2013 3:44pm
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    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭


    I got a computer and the hard drive seems to have failed, Windows was not booting and would not boot into safe mode etc. My initial suspicion is a failed hard drive.

    I just removed the Hard Drive now and put it in the dock and I'm just getting an option to format it from Windows. I choose not to format it naturally but I am just wondering if it would be bad sectors etc. as I'd like to try recover the data.

    Any ideas??


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    Torqay
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    Stinicker wrote: »
    I am just wondering if it would be bad sectors

    If you're lucky, it's just a shot partition table. If so, EaseUS Partition Recovery should be able to do the job.

    If you want to test the drive for bad sectors, use HD Tune.


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