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| Thread ID: 22256 | 2002-07-15 09:19:00 | XP HDD access lockout. | nz_liam (845) | Press F1 |
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| 62811 | 2002-07-15 09:19:00 | I have 2 XP PRO based systems, earlier today I tried to defrag one only to have defrag grind to a halt, sent critical error reports to ms etc. When I tired to boot the system again I found it would not boot, detected HDD all right, displayed config screen ok, but hung before the XP is startup screen. I tried to reboot several times, got a HDD boot failure once. What I need help with is getting my data off the drive and on to my other XP machine, then I will try and see what I can do to repair the damage (if possible). I plugged it in and got it running as a slave on my good XP system, XP detected it ok, and it shows in device manager but not in my computer (I am logged on as administrator with etc etc). Both drives run on NTFS, How can I get access to my damaged slave drive from my computer?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Liam. |
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| 62812 | 2002-07-15 09:26:00 | did you set the jumpers on the drive to "slave" if you plugged it into a slave position on the IDE cable? | godfather (25) | ||
| 62813 | 2002-07-15 09:31:00 | Cable select. | nz_liam (845) | ||
| 62814 | 2002-07-15 09:46:00 | Ok its running on slave now, no diff though. When it goto device manager > st340016A (the drive) properties > general its location is "Location 1 (1)", while my other drive is "Location 0 (0), dose this affect drive access?? Cheers Liam |
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| 62815 | 2002-07-15 09:56:00 | In case anyone was wondering about the drive, it is a 6 mth old Seagate barracuda 4 (40gb), running on UDMA 100 and lives in a 2 fan removable case, so I am not expecting this failure to be age/heat induced. Cheers Liam |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 62816 | 2002-07-15 10:38:00 | ok, from what I tell I have hit a bad sector (or something like that), the drive is making that constant (low) crackling sound like when you hit a bad sector and it tries to read it, and this is gobbling up all my system resources (like when mozilla mail 1.1a crashes) Any help anyone can give me will really be appreciated as I need to use files off it first thing tomorrow morning, I have about half my stuff backed up on Zip 250, but I really need the other half urgently! Thanks. |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 62817 | 2002-07-15 12:11:00 | Seagate strikes again.. hehehe Anyway hope your drive won't crap out on you too soon. Since it's on NTFS and it's not accessible in windows (no idea why), you might have to convert it into FAT32. Before doing that let me ask a few questions. Do you have any encrypted files/folders on that drive? Have you had any othe problem before you ran into this problem? Try going to disk management and see if it reads your drive as a healthy drive. This is my idea. Get yourself partition magic latest version (and no this software is not crap like everyone says) and convert your drive to FAT32. You might loose your encrypted files/folders though. FAT32 will turn encrypted files into chunck files, then see if you can access your drive from there. I'm wondering why you can't see the drive in windows since it's deteced in device manager. I'd say return the drive if it's got warrenty. |
boom23 (176) | ||
| 62818 | 2002-07-15 12:34:00 | Have you tried using the XP CD to Repair the Windows Installation? Boot from the CD, don't press R the first time it asks you, but press Enter (I think) to go to the next screen to set up a new installation...and then you highlight your current installation, and press R there...and it should (if possible) repair Windows. -- Hervard |
Hervard (405) | ||
| 62819 | 2002-07-15 12:40:00 | Thanks for your help, I ran Seagate SeaTools diagnostic utility which told me that the HDD was f***ed, and that it would need to go back to Seagate. This is a really pain in the a** as there was a pile of data (all 13Gb of it) only stored on that pc. What really annoys me is that it’s the second drive that system's burned, It killed an IBM 30 GB (but that was IBM’s fault, they shipped them before they tested them, then found their entire shipment was screwed (bad sectors)). To top it all my motherboard has IDE raid (which I was not using) and I also have a CD writer and a zip 250 to back up on. Cheers Liam. |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 62820 | 2002-07-15 12:43:00 | Hervard, tried that, repair utility told me my drive had “un reparable” errors and that it couldn’t help me on that one. Will be couriering the drive back to Gamma first thing in the morning. Thanks for your help. Liam. |
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