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| Thread ID: 83329 | 2007-09-27 15:31:00 | PC slows to a crawl when dodgy HDD connected | george12 (7) | Press F1 |
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| 595806 | 2007-09-27 15:31:00 | My dad's 30GB hard drive has died, along with a rather cruical and rather un-backed up book he is writing. It's detected by the BIOS and Windows, and GetDataBack is finding files as I speak (with a LOT of unreadable sectors along the way). The drive occasionally spins down for half a second. An odd thing is, with the drive connected, the computer is ridiculously slow, and explorer crashes if I try to go into My Computer or look at the contents of the drive in Windows. The hard drive light is also solidly on. What do these signs mean? Anything I should know? If the errors, which come up every 20 or so files found, prevent me from accessing the one file I need off the drive, will Spinrite help? Is there any danger running Spinrite on the drive? Professional data recovery services are not an option. It's probably a few dozen hours of work that would be lost, but not the entire book, so it won't be the end of the world if it's lost, but it will be very disappointing to my dad. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 595807 | 2007-09-27 19:12:00 | And people say why back up :rolleyes: The drive is in horrible health, Windows it trying to read off it which is causing Windows to be unstable, it is VERY common in this situation... I thought you would have found that out by now... |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 595808 | 2007-09-27 20:17:00 | An odd thing is, with the drive connected, the computer is ridiculously slow, and explorer crashes if I try to go into My Computer or look at the contents of the drive in Windows. not unusual at all would you expect windows to read the drive without some 'extra effort' when its stuffed ? |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 595809 | 2007-09-27 20:54:00 | Thats normal - I'd back up everything possible, then copy the buggered drive to a good drive using ghost or acronis. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 595810 | 2007-09-27 21:18:00 | Thats normal - I'd back up everything possible, then copy the buggered drive to a good drive using ghost or acronis. Yep Done that a few times :thumbs: Whats really a pain in the Bu** is when you 3/4 of the way through and the drive thats being copied decides its hd enough :( As it says in the Toyota Ad BUG*ER! |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 595811 | 2007-09-27 21:29:00 | Yep Done that a few times :thumbs: Whats really a pain in the Bu** is when you 3/4 of the way through and the drive thats being copied decides its hd enough :( As it says in the Toyota Ad BUG*ER! :lol: Yes. I once had an EXTREMELY stuffed notebook HDD, an 80gig IBM. Windows wouldn't boot, couldn't even load the HDD diag up on it! Did a ghost with the force clone option, it took - wait for it - 62 hours!!!! But after it all, I recovered over 80% of the data that was on there, and all the owner of the laptop's documents, as the bit that was unrecoverable was program files/WINDOWS folders etc etc. The drive didn't spin up again after that marathon. I had 2 fans sitting beside it to keep it cool! lol. Just remember, the more you use the drive, the worse it's going to get. |
wratterus (105) | ||
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