Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Sunday 1.12.2024 / 01:14
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > pc hardware > other pc hardware > can i salvage a corupted hdd
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
Can I salvage a corupted HDD
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
dalecore
Member
_ 		24. March 2011 @ 18:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
About maybe two years ago I lost a great deal of data on a 500GB My book Western Digital external HDD. Lately I've been broke and hurting for space and I'm wondering if it is possible to salvage this HDD. It still runs I can still access it I just don't trust it with holding any new data lol. I wanted to erase everything start clean but is that really going to make a difference?

For extra detail basically when I would restart my computer the chkdsk would automatically start and once that was over and I arrived in windows either a file would end up missing or be corrupted.
[ + quote]
LDee
Senior Member
_ 		25. March 2011 @ 09:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Windows starting and running checkdisk everytime is quite common if the drive is flagged as dirty. You can still use a disk like that.

The problem may be with the bridge that connects your (sata I assume) hard drive inside the case to the usb port on the case. You could try taking it out of the case and putting it in a new enclosure, which are cheap. However, the problem may be with the hard disk itself, in which case you should chuck it.

Test it by formatting it with a full (not quick) format and then copying a large amount of data, say 100GB or so to and from it a few times and check it you get errors such as "Windows Write Delay Error". Try to copy lots of both small and large files. If you are confident with it after testing then it might be fine for use although don't blame me if it goes wrong again.

The other thing is, external drives are pretty cheap right now, 1TB or more for around £40 so it might not be worth messing about with it at all.
[ + quote]
pcrepair
Senior Member
_ 		29. March 2011 @ 02:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
or run the hard disk regenerator on the hiren boot disk this often fixes drives that haven't actually died, and just got themselves confused
[ + quote]
i7 3770 12GB ram terrabyte sata drive 1 750Gb sata drive 285GTX graphics Sony dvdwriter same NZXT Nemesis case
Still playing Black Hawk Down why did I upgrade?
afterdawn.com > forums > pc hardware > other pc hardware > can i salvage a corupted hdd
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2024 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork