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Hard drive fried, a few questions

J

JavaTenor

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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?
 
Assuming you're ok with the resulting data loss, you should try formatting your hard drive before giving up the ghost. File errors found by chkdisk dont necessarily mean the disk has bad sectors.

If all else fails, try a low level format.

SATA drives offer performance simiar to their IDE counterparts. If you do end up buying a new hard drive, just buy the biggest drive possible.
 
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