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02-03-2005, 05:02 PM
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drive crash- please help me!!
Hi there,
Seeking some advice with a lil tech issue i got here. Im not holding out much hope for rescue here but willing to give anything a try. Went to bed the other night after an hour or so of online gaming, powered down in the normal way. Booted up the next day and zonk.. no boot.. freezing half way.. even in safe. Tried again later and it booted but everything was taking ages to load.. icons etc. Now i cant access anything on my secondary drive, its not finding the shortcuts and telling me drive d is not formatted!! Nothing i had been doing had needed access to drive d. Its my main drive for storage.. and although i backed up most of it about 2 months ago ive still got a few tracks i been working on, poetry etc that i really want to rescue. I have tried the drive in my bros pc with exactly the same result.. so the drive is certainly the issue. Ive done a full scan etc and can find no errors on my c that might have caused this. Like i said... even if i could just save a few mb of work id be happy. Ive tried accessing it using another pc in msdos (my pc has no floppydrive)and ive tried using spinwrite which seems to have no problems accessing the drive and reading it but i still cant figure out how to access the data and retrive it! Any suggestions how imight try to save this before i chuck the ****** thing in the bin!! Im running xp home, p4 2.8, 768ddr, MSI MS-6714 Mainboard (845GVM-L) Geforce mx440, the drive is a maxtor d540x-4d 5400rpm 60gb Im not that tech savy but with guidance i can manage most stuff. Any help will me met with great happiness, even if you just put me outa my misery and tell me to take out the hammer!! cheers in advance! Mark  |
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02-03-2005, 05:06 PM
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Welcome Marc!
First of all, is this a first time this happened? What PSU (power supply unit) do you have? Your HDD seems to have corrupted. If you don't mind formatting, that's what I'd recommend first. When you do format, make sure to update to SP2 first, all critical updates, and then install your mobo drivers, and then onto video card drivers etc. Good luck! Peter |
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02-03-2005, 05:28 PM
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Hi Peter,
thanks for the reply! Yep, This is the first time this has happened. I dont know wht PSU i have... how do i tell? theres a lil red window on it sayin 230.. is that it? I will reformat primary drive and reinstall if you think it might help. I hadnt updated to sp2 b4 as id been told the firewall was very unreliable and caused conflicts. Will do this time. Ill let u know how i go. thanks again Mark |
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02-03-2005, 05:44 PM
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Regarding PSU, what brand is it? And how much wattage (max.) does it claim?
Crappy PSU's can do loads of damage to several hardwares... If it's 230W like you suggested, that sounds way too low for a P4 system. good luck on your reinstall. |
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02-04-2005, 08:08 PM
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ok but not
k ive reinstalled and updated. All is workin fine cept i still cant access the secondary drive! It still says its not formatted. Somethins corrupted for sure...im sure the data is still there but ive no idea how to access it.
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02-05-2005, 10:55 AM
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Do you have any drive error checking programs that you can run in dos?
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02-05-2005, 07:39 PM
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Hi
Only one i have is spinrite data recovery (grc.com)...but as the damn machine didnt come with 3.5drive i cant boot to dos...less i use the recovery cd...but its not a clean boot. Cant see the drive in dos either from that. I ve run spnrite from cd iso on level 4 (took 18 hrs) but windows still wont see the drive. im gonna try it on another machine as a primary drive and boot with floppy to dos see if i can get at it. But i wont be able to save much of the 60gb with a 1.44mb diskette. thats if it even works. Am i tryin the right things guys? Any suggestions for a good error checker? Mark |
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02-07-2005, 11:02 AM
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Well if you can't see the drive from windows or dos... then you can't salvage anything from it. Unless you send it to a data recovery center, but believe me... it's not worth it. Waaay too expensive.
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02-07-2005, 12:20 PM
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marc im not gonna be much of a help....
but that is the best post I have ever seen looking for help. great description, model numbers, PARAGRAPHS......we gotta help this guy heh |
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02-12-2005, 10:15 PM
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You could have gotten some short of visus, of you may not have enoguh watts in your psu,, for a P4, i would recommand, at very minium 300watt and higher
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