Help with hard drive

[kodiak]

Ones you hook it up to your IDE or SATA vista should run chkdsk automatically on boot up. If it doesn’t fix the problem there is one other thing you can try. There’s a program called SpinRite it's the best HD recovery software I have ever seen. If you have any I.T. buddies they might have this program in there position, they can make you a SpinRite boot CD. The last time I checked SpinRite was still to expensive for the average user. It’s used mainly by data recovery firms and I.T. professionals.

[Kenny]

Ones you hook it up to your IDE or SATA vista should run chkdsk automatically on boot up. If it doesn’t fix the problem there is one other thing you can try. There’s a program called SpinRite it's the best HD recovery software I have ever seen. If you have any I.T. buddies they might have this program in there position, they can make you a SpinRite boot CD. The last time I checked SpinRite was still to expensive for the average user. It’s used mainly by data recovery firms and I.T. professionals.

Forgot about Spinrite, I've used that too with good success...

It's amazing, a zero in the wrong place in the boot sector and windows can totally ignore the drive.
So I mizspel a word, you still understand me... Windows is a retard. oops, uh-oh..

[Ldub]

So I mizspel a word, you still understand me... Windows is a retard. oops, uh-oh..

Hey...I resemble that remark !

Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk

[kodiak]

I had what seamed to be a completely unrecoverable HD I ran SpinRite on about 6 months ago. It only took 5 DAYS for the program to recover it. SpinRite can take a long time.

[nfpgasmask]

SpinRite can take a long time.

Yeah, TestDisk is the same. I think I let it run for 3 days when I did my revcovery with it.

Bart

[tom4bren]

Are Y'all trying to help me or scare me????

[nfpgasmask]

Are Y'all trying to help me or scare me????

Hey man, I would have let it run for 3 weeks if I had to. I lost like 6-7 months worth of digital camera pics, and for me, that is unacceptable!!!

Bart