Crashed harddisk

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Please help me to recover my files from a crashed harddisk.
If I put in a new harddisk in my computer as C: drive will
I be able to copy files from the crashed harddisk assuming
it can be installed as D:drive? What other ways are available?
Would appreciate any help. My OS is 98SE
Thanks
 
Joe Boon said:
Please help me to recover my files from a crashed harddisk.
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What the heck do you mean with crashed harddisk? Be more specific and
describe actual symptoms!
 
Joep said:
What the heck do you mean with crashed harddisk? Be more specific and
describe actual symptoms!
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Did it make a lot of noise when it died (like mine) or did it go quietly :-)
 
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
 
Joe Boon said:
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
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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

D I Y D a t a R e c o v e r y . N L - Data & Disaster Recovery Tools

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl
http://www.diydatarecovery.com

Please include previous correspondence!

DiskPatch - MBR, Partition, boot sector repair and recovery.
iRecover - FAT, FAT32 and NTFS data recovery.
MBRtool - Freeware MBR backup and restore.
 
Thank you very much for the detailed advice. Your help is much appreciated.
Best regards.
 
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