hard-drive trouble - please help

[silentthunder]

i have file system (ntfs) errors on my seagate barracuda st3120022a
drive. i tried running chkdsk with all possible options, from windows
and recovery console, to no avail. the only thing chkdsk is able to
tell me, when run in read-only mode, is that i have errors on the drive,
but it doesn't fix them. i also tried seagate's disk checking and
repair utility: seatools, but the software hangs when it finds the first
error.

i contacted seagate's tech support but their recommendation is that i
replace the drive, which is still under warranty so it wouldn't cost me
anything beyond shipping it to them but it would leave me without a
computer for a few days, and so that is only a last resort.

so, is there a way to fix file system errors on an ntfs partition?
ideally without losing data.

i have a second (slave) drive in my pc. is it possible to boot to that
drive, without having to open the computer up and changing jumpers, and
run a disk checking tool, like chkdsk and seatools? the errors seem to
be in the file tables at the beginning of the drive. i was thinking i
could copy some basic system files and the disk tools to the other
hard-drive, boot to it and try that way.

please help.

thank you. have a great day.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

i have file system (ntfs) errors on my seagate barracuda st3120022a drive. i tried running chkdsk with all possible options, from windows and recovery console, to no avail. the only thing chkdsk is able to tell me, when run in read-only mode, is that i have errors on the drive, but it doesn't fix them. i also tried seagate's disk checking and repair utility: seatools, but the software hangs when it finds the first error.

i contacted seagate's tech support but their recommendation is that i replace the drive, which is still under warranty so it wouldn't cost me anything beyond shipping it to them but it would leave me without a computer for a few days, and so that is only a last resort.

so, is there a way to fix file system errors on an ntfs partition? ideally without losing data.

i have a second (slave) drive in my pc. is it possible to boot to that drive, without having to open the computer up and changing jumpers, and run a disk checking tool, like chkdsk and seatools? the errors seem to be in the file tables at the beginning of the drive. i was thinking i could copy some basic system files and the disk tools to the other hard-drive, boot to it and try that way.

please help.

thank you. have a great day.

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http://home.eol.ca/~rysb/


Make yourself a Bart boot CD (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#download)
so that you can boot into a CD-based version of WinXP. This will enable
you to copy any file from your problem disk to your slave disk, provided
that the file is still readable.

To make a Bart boot CD you need a WinXP Professional CD (but no
licence key!) plus a CD burner.