Hard drive is corrupted?

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I've been useing this drive for a long time. 160 gig seagate. Now I
get the prompt below. Do I need a data recovery program or is there a
simple less expensive fix. Any help from out ther is welcomed to sy
the least.


F:\ is not accessible

the disk structure is corrupted and unreadable
 
if you have something to boot with and it has fdisk utility--- go to the
dos prompt and do a fdisk /mbr

It may help
 
JAD said:
if you have something to boot with and it has fdisk utility--- go to the
dos prompt and do a fdisk /mbr

It may help
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ghost the drive first...and next time he should make BACKUPS!!!!


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can said:
I've been useing this drive for a long time. 160 gig seagate. Now I
get the prompt below. Do I need a data recovery program or is there a
simple less expensive fix. Any help from out ther is welcomed to sy
the least.


F:\ is not accessible

the disk structure is corrupted and unreadable
Click to expand...

Have you tried booting up with a W98 boot disk (floppy or CD) and see what's
on your 'C' drive? You can download boot disks from bootdisk.com.

Have you tried booting up with a OS CD (W2K/XP) and go into the recovery
console? See if you can do a dir of the 'C' drive. What happens when you
execute 'chkdsk c:' from the recovery console? I always try fixboot and
fixmbr from the recovery console.

If you're able to access the contents of the 'C' drive, then you can put
another hard disk into your computer and copy over whatever data you need
from the bad drive to the good drive. A BartPE CD with FileCommander will
make your recovery way easier. Another alternative is to have a spare hard
disk with the entire OS loaded and boot off that drive and jumper your
defective hard disk to a slave.

Check your hard disk with a manufacturer supplied diagnostics program to
determine if you need a new hard disk or simply format your hard disk and
reinstall.

While it's too late now, buy Ghost 2003. It's less than $8.00+shipping.
It'll save your butt in the future.
 
hold on a sec....."F" is not accessible? As in the CD ROM is not bootable?
What is 'F' drive? the primary boot drive? a partition on the Seagate?
Cd-ROM?
slave drive?
 
Your F: drive is not you main drive is it? Try resetting the BIOS to boot
from your primary(C:\) drive first.
 
Generally it means your drive has had a coranary and needs
transplant

One of my SATA Maxtors out of a raid array died "again" yesterda
after only one week after a disk replacement, the error message whil
different means the same thing, mine said windows/system/32/config ca
not start due to corrupted or missing data on a cold boot, select "r
at restart with your original o/s disk, while that works fine with
single drive it means your screwed with a striping raid array.

Your single drive may be able to be repaired, try it's repair s/
first, if not hope your warranty is good
 
If the drive can be seen by the bios and spins then the first thing to try
is spinrite. It recovers lost data and reconditions the drive as best it
can.

-g
 
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