XP keeps on killing hard drive. Please Help!!!

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Ron Deb

Hi,

I have XP on my home computer. I have two HDs; a 20GB
that has the OS on it and a 80GB one that is partitioned
into two 40GB sections with my programs and other data on
them.
Every couple of months XP keeps on giving me disk error
and won't read any of the data on the disk. It will do a
disk check on both the 40GB drives on startup and runs
really slowly. I have to reformat both the partitions to
get it to work properly. This time it told me one of the
partitions is not formatted properly (although I did
format it with NTFS format last time I had to reformat my
HDs).
Can I get the data on my disks back and how can I solve
this problem once and for all?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Ron D.
 
Hello

Well after reading your notes I think that maybe you should
look inot replacing your ahrddrives period. now about getting
your data ok. They are programs out their that will be able to
get some data back.

www.r-tt.com

But if you really need that data they are clean rooms which you can
send your hard to and they can recovery the data, but it gets expensive
and it's not cheap

www.actionfront.com



Alvin
 
Hi,

I have XP on my home computer. I have two HDs; a 20GB
that has the OS on it and a 80GB one that is partitioned
into two 40GB sections with my programs and other data on
them.
Every couple of months XP keeps on giving me disk error
and won't read any of the data on the disk. It will do a
disk check on both the 40GB drives on startup and runs
really slowly. I have to reformat both the partitions to
get it to work properly. This time it told me one of the
partitions is not formatted properly (although I did
format it with NTFS format last time I had to reformat my
HDs).
Can I get the data on my disks back and how can I solve
this problem once and for all?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Ron D.
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Hin, Ron!
Go to your HD manufacturer's site and get a utility to do a low level
scan and reformat. See what it says. If your drive is OK, reformat it
in Windows XP afterwards.
 
Robert said:
On 18/11/2003 Ron Deb wrote:
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Hin, Ron!
Go to your HD manufacturer's site and get a utility to do a low level
scan and reformat. See what it says. If your drive is OK, reformat it
in Windows XP afterwards.
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Also make sure that the drive cable is good (i.e. replace the one you've got
because it maybe the cause of the problem) and make sure that the connectors
on the cable are firmly attached to the drives. In short what you are seeing
is a hardware fault, not an OS problem.
 
Are you using the latest M/B drivers for your installation (specifically the
IDE drivers)? If not, you may be getting data corruption by using the stock
drivers.
 
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