A few days ago, my computer booted up *extremely* slowly. When I rebooted, it forced me to run chkdsk, which found a ton of errors on my D partition, and after that it wouldn't boot at all. I've used the Ultimate Boot CD to check things out, and it appears that there are a ton of file errors on the D partition that chkdsk can't repair. At this point, I'm assuming I'll have to buy a new drive. Here are my questions:
1. My motherboard is medium-old and only supports IDE. I know SATA is the wave of the future, though: am I crippling myself if I buy an IDE replacement for the hard drive now? (i.e. should I spend the extra cash to pick up the necessary PCI adapter for SATA drives? get a new motherboard even though I wasn't planning on upgrading? or will it be fine to stick to IDE for now?)
2. Is there a good way to figure out which files are affected by these errors so that I can recover some of them?
1. My motherboard is medium-old and only supports IDE. I know SATA is the wave of the future, though: am I crippling myself if I buy an IDE replacement for the hard drive now? (i.e. should I spend the extra cash to pick up the necessary PCI adapter for SATA drives? get a new motherboard even though I wasn't planning on upgrading? or will it be fine to stick to IDE for now?)
2. Is there a good way to figure out which files are affected by these errors so that I can recover some of them?
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