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Help! Harddrive Corrupted

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madhandles

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I have two partitions on my harddrive and I was moving some data from one partition to another but it would stop in the middle of moving the data because it couldn't read it. So I suspected hard drive corruption. Soon after, a blue screen came up (I'm running Windows XP) and told me there was a fatal error. I restarted my computer and it wouldn't go past the windows xp splash screen and boot into windows. I recovered some of my important files using a boot disk and ran chkdsk. I tryed installing windows again but it would give me an error saying couldnt create c:\windows or some other folder. I then deleted one of my two partitions that has windows installed on it, created a partition again, formatted it using ntfs file system, and then attempted to install windows again. However, the same error occurred. Is there any program out there that I can run to possibly fix the harddrive problems? I think the harddrive got corrupted by me accidentely cutting off the power to the computer while it was on.
 
suggest you run memory test first (memtest86 on individual slots)
to verify that memory is not writing crap to drive.

After that you can run chkdsk or scandisk depending on OS
to check out drive.
Alternately, get drive manufactorers test program to verify drive.
 
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