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Secondary drive is giving me trouble. :<

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PlayJade

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I've been using this drive for years for storage and it has never gave me any trouble. I reformatted and installed Windows 7 (from XP) and now it's like the drive is dead.

I can view the drive in the Device Manager and in my BIOS, but Windows won't let me format or "initialize" into an MBR partition table, whatever that is. It gives me this error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

Yeah... :'(
 
From command prompt, run CHKDSK /f on that drive and go from there.
 
Boot to a CD containing a disk maker's diagnostics test and do an extended (read) test of the disk.

Offhand, I'd guess the disk has had it, with CRC errors in Sector 0, which as I understand it, can't be "fixed".
 
RebateMonger said:
Boot to a CD containing a disk maker's diagnostics test and do an extended (read) test of the disk.

Offhand, I'd guess the disk has had it, with CRC errors in Sector 0, which as I understand it, can't be "fixed".
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Okay, tried SeaTools... it failed the tests. -_-

I just don't understand what happened in that one day span. Arghhh.

Thanks guys.
 
PlayJade said:
I'm not hoping for much, but is there any way I can recover data?
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Hmmm...since you were trying to Initialize the disk, I didn't figure you had data on it.

You can try one of the many free and paid data recovery softwares. If the data is VALUABLE, your best course is to get it to a professional data recovery service. If its value is limited, install the data recovery software on a working PC, hook up the disk (either as a secondary disk or via USB, eSATA, etc) and see what the data recovery software finds. Even the paid software has a "trial" mode. It'll find the data but won't recover it all unless you pay for a software license. Most cost less than $100.

If you run data recovery software: Before starting anything, know EXACTLY what you want to recover and in what order. The disk may get worse and you don't want it to fail while you are copying Windows System files or other useless files while those photos of Grandma haven't been copied yet.

And DO NOT run any more diagnostics programs or "disk repair" tools. Get off all the data you can and THEN you can mess with other diagnostics tools.
 
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