recovering a hardrive?

[adlianb]

one of my harddrive is suffering bad sectores. when i boot up the comp, window200 went into check disc and identify the bad sectors then it boot into window. when i tried to access the drive, it says the drive in inaccessible or possible corrupt. is there anyway where i can recover the data on that drive?

 

[KingofFah]

Try putting it in another system. See if you can copy any of the files, sometimes it's just one or two files that are actually corrupt.

 

[compudog]

Yep. The drive is probably going to fail real soon. If you can, take the drive and put it into another computer and copy off the data you need to save. I keep a spare PC just for this sort of thing. I take the failing drive, jumper it as a Master and connect it to the Secondary IDE channel. Fire up the machine, set the drive up in BIOS and then load my OS (Win2K). At this point I copy off what I can, then burn it to CD. Sometimes you just can't do it, but sometimes it works great.

 

[deepbluepenguin]

try booting to the Win2k installation disk
then from the setup program select Repair a windows installation
at the repair selection pick repair an existing windows installation
using the recovery console.

at the recovery console try the following command
chkdsk /r
see if that helps, compudog's suggestion is the best one
but you might wanna try this in case you dont have a spare
pc handy.

 

[adlianb]

the faulty HD does not have any os installed on it. i have 2 HD and the faulty one is just there for extra storage space. so i guess the booting from win2k disc method won't work?