- Oct 17, 1999
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Hey there so I'm troubleshooting a computer after a friend went to boot their computer only to find a veritable bootmgr missing error. So I pop in a win disc and proceed to try to rebuild BCD and auto repair but no dice then discover in the bios the HDD has taken a hit in lifespan via SMART. Apparently the resident two year old loves to rapidly flick electronic devices on and off including a $1200 computer. So even in the command prompt the partitions are incorrectly reported I know this HDD is pretty much toast but since it is recognized I'm going to try to see what spin rite will do. What I'm wondering is from prior experience spin rite may refuse to proceed on this drive or freeze on one area of the disk and I've got to tryy darndest to recover irreplaceable images of the said two year olds early life (perhaps this kid is craftier than he appears and is destroying evidence his parents can embarrass him later with). Does anyone think I should wait to get a fresh hard drive in there before attempting recovery? What's your experience with spin rite?