"Joe Boon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks Joep and Colin for replying. Indeed, I should have given
> more info. On reflection, the harddisk is not actually dead as small files
> can still be recovered under 'safe mode' and sent to floppy disk. But
> I have problems saving large files and programs. Thus my thoughts
> on whether I could use the failed harddisk as a slave assuming it can
> be recognized as such after installing a new harddisk. Sorry for the
> misleading word 'crashed'.
>
> Here is a repost. As far as I can recollect my computer was running
> normally. I then connected a thumb disk to the USB and the system
> froze. I shut down the system and rebooted. Scandisk then took
> over and automatically went into Surface Scan. While doing so there
> were knocking sounds (tok, tok) now and then.
>
> 'Problem Found' msgs appeared about data stored in an area was
> about to fail, it has become unreliable, and Scandisk could fix it.
> This went on for about 2000 clusters or so and it stopped. It has
> to examine 1,727,558 clusters (my harddisk is a Maxtor 60GB).
>
> After exiting Scandisk the system froze. Pressing CTRL/ALT/DEL
> brought up following message (a bit out of screen):
>
> ".... Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0: Maxtor 6L060J3 - (PM).
> Warning immediately back-up your data and replace your hard
> disk drive. A failure may be imminent "
>
> Would appreciate any help.
> Please also advise how to get to Safe Mode as I forgot how I got
> there the last time under this condition.
>
> Many thanks.
> Joe
>
Best option - but no guarantees at all, the disk may be FUBAR:
- Get a disk that's at least same size as 'bad disk'
- Clone 'bad disk' to 'good disk' using a sector-by-sector clone tool that
can handle bad sectors on the source (CloneDisk from
www.invircible.com, or
DiskPatch from
www.diydatarecovery.com, or ByteBack from
www.toolsthatwork.com)
Then:
- From the destination disk get all files you still can get
- If needed files can't be copied get data recovery software ala
www.Runtimes.org GetDataBack, EasyRecovery from
www.ontrack.com or iRecover
from
www.diydatarecovery.nl, in other words software that 'ignores' damaged
system structures
- once you have tried all that, then you may try and see if Scandisk is
still able to fix damage
Good luck!
--
Joep
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http://www.diydatarecovery.nl
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