Still need help

[Tgh]

Original thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=1069552

Ok, I got a new hd today, installed xp on it so far nothing else, cept drivers from cds.
The guy at bestbuys told me that I should bring my old hd to them and they will run a special scan disk to see if any files are corrupt on my old, so that i can fix/remove them, then transfer everything to my new hd and complete reformatt my old one. Does anyone know of a special scan disk I can use to do it myself. The dude there was telling me it was ran thru dos and costs $60 bucks to do at the store. Im not about to spend 60 bones. The old hd is hooked up as a slave right now, but im not going to touch a file on there. Any help?

 

[Tgh]

bump

 

[Lord Evermore]

The "special" scan they're going to do is probably just a full scandisk or chkdsk with it set to check for bad sectors. It may also be just the manufacturers software diagnostics. There's nothing Best Buy is going to have that's any better than what you can do. Just download the manufacturer software and have it do a non-destructive scan, then do scandisk/chkdsk on the drive.

By even having it in your system while it's running, you're changing files on it and accessing data, so you could be causing failure right now.

Why are you going to format the old hard drive, if it's dying?

 

[Tgh]

Well theres a chance that its not dying,its just thjat I am unable to do a full format of the whole hd because of my precious information onthere.. So i want to cleanitup and then reformat it fully. I am running disk check 2.1 and scaned my new hd. there is a sharing error on 48 files, mostly nothing big, stuff in the my documents folder, only thing that spooked me isn that the c:\windows\systtem32\confg\system file was on that list, and its the same file that has shown up twice on the screen saying thats thepath of the missing/cuorrupt file. so im doubting that my new c drive is good to go. any thoughts? can oneof u send me ur system file and ill replace mines with urs?

 

[Lord Evermore]

The system file is machine-specific, it holds information about your hardware. Can't just swap it with someone else's.

 

[shermes]

get some flavor of linux -- much better diagnostic tools

 

[Lord Evermore]

Installing Linux isn't the solution to everything.