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recovering a hardrive?

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adlianb

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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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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