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07-18-2007, 12:03 PM
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| Mod-O-Rator  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Finleyville, PA | Hard drive issues Been having these a lot lateley..  Came into work to find my station non-responsive. Long story short, secondary hard drive was getting a "The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read. The data might be missing or corrupted." error. Something I can fix by swapping drive controllers and using data recovery software to get the data back, or is this thing just toast. No click of death, just seems to keep reading the same section of the disk over and over. (Not a lot of data on there except all the drivers and utitlities for the machines in the office.) 
__________________ Bryan "Azzy" Spiegel Riverside Renegade Paintball / C.C. S.V.S. Plankowner - LPPC#6 "It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, “This I have done.” - Dean Alfange |
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07-18-2007, 12:26 PM
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| MCB Member  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntsville, AL   | what brand of hard drive it it? at work when had a bad CASE of Maxtors, i personally had to replace at least ten of them. i though maybe it was just a fluke that somebody had dropped the box at some point, but then i bought a brand new Maxtor and it went out within a month. i thought Western Digital was supposed to be the bad one... if it is just one bad block your SMART feature should relocate that data somewhere else on the drive and mark that block as bad, if you keep getting bad blocks it might be the drive going bad. i would backup anything you need off of it and let it run a surface test over night and see what that comes up with |
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07-18-2007, 12:31 PM
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| See Matt Mod.  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bethlehem CT | That sure sounds like a dying drive. If you need to recover the data, I've got a bunch of file recovery utilities that I can send you. If it's just drivers and such, recovery probably isn't worth your time other than doing a basic chkdsk with a fix. |
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07-18-2007, 12:54 PM
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| Mod-O-Rator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Finleyville, PA | Its also got my personal graphics files on it, along with some photos. The photos, are backed up at home. Everything else... nope. I have some utilities, but windows wont even reconise the thing. Not like I can do a surface scan on it, as it freezes up anything that tries to touch it. May have another samsung drive around here of the same model though.
__________________ Bryan "Azzy" Spiegel Riverside Renegade Paintball / C.C. S.V.S. Plankowner - LPPC#6 "It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, “This I have done.” - Dean Alfange |
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