Trying to fix a drive for a friend of mine, a western digital 120 GB IDE. Original problem was it wouldn't boot anymore, and recovery console would say 'an error occurred during directory enumeration' if you tried to use DIR on it. So, after some research, I found this could be fixed by fixmbr, fixboot, and chkdsk /r. Unfortunately the drive said it had some physical problems while this was running, and would stop checking it.
I tried slaving the drive, but this would cause the computer to slow down to a crawl. I mean it literally took 15 minutes for the computer to finally get into Windows, and after all that the drive wouldn't even show up in explorer, so forget using data-recovery software. Finally, after trying a few different things, the drive started making the dreaded click-of-death sound when turning on the computer.
So I'm guessing this drive is just dead, but maybe someone has an idea? Data recovery centers charge an arm and a leg so that's basically out of the question.
thanks all
I tried slaving the drive, but this would cause the computer to slow down to a crawl. I mean it literally took 15 minutes for the computer to finally get into Windows, and after all that the drive wouldn't even show up in explorer, so forget using data-recovery software. Finally, after trying a few different things, the drive started making the dreaded click-of-death sound when turning on the computer.
So I'm guessing this drive is just dead, but maybe someone has an idea? Data recovery centers charge an arm and a leg so that's basically out of the question.
thanks all
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