File corrupted

[how random]

Ok, i think one of my hard drives might be dying AGAIN!!

Windows is telling me that one of my Excel files is corrupted or unreadable. Ive also had music stuttering or failing to play when reading off this drive and windows runing chkdsk on it before widows starts up.

So is there any way that i can open this file?

Thanks.

 

[helmutcheese]

1 way possibily, it saved me for a HDD after mobo fried and claimed HDD was RAW and needed formated.

Lifesaver > http://quetek.com/prod02.htm

If small file you can get it back for free, I had gigs of stuff 1 week old and backup is weekly so it was worth the near $60.

 

[how random]

1 way possibily, it saved me for a HDD after mobo fried and claimed HDD was RAW and needed formated.

Lifesaver > http://quetek.com/prod02.htm

If small file you can get it back for free, I had gigs of stuff 1 week odl and backup is weekly so it was worth the near $60.

Thank you so much, that has saved my bacon
I'm gona keep a copy of that program, as i expet i might have to use it again.

Also another little question someone might know, is it possible for a motherboard to kill a hard drive? As ive had more than my fair share of them dying and this seems to be the only possible cause now

 

[helmutcheese]

Well my mobo fired and this made HDD corrupt, it ok after full format but it claimed it was RAW and needed format even though it was full of data, that apps is good not cheap but you need run the longest mode with inc deleted files to give it a fair chance, it even saves the DIR's so the file are not all mixed up like, once you find them you can change to a TREE view like in Explorer if you find that easier to grab blocks of files.

I really know this saved my bacon.

So did you actually get your file back with it as free use ? (think limits 64KB)

 

[how random]

Yeah i did it was only 18kb which was lucky

Now to sort out this stupid hard drive......

 

[helmutcheese]

Advise you do a "Full Low Level Format" with likes of Maxtors Powermax/Maxblast or a SIM tool, most HDD's manu's now have these avail on floppy or .iso, or even the Hirens Boot CD's which contains all these tools+more.

 

[how random]

Have you got a link to a pogram that will do a Full low level Format? I have a 500Gb Samsung by the way. (Its the second Samsung 500Gb i have had, the first one did a similar thing as well )

 

[helmutcheese]

Sure I like Maxtors but hard to get since Seagate took over, its simple to use but probably so are others.

I get confused between Maxblast and Powermax, grab both and see what one is for wiping HDD.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=65af7bb4d9391110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD (segate retained this)


http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1386.html (seagate no longer support)

 

[ByteJuggler]

Also another little question someone might know, is it possible for a motherboard to kill a hard drive? As ive had more than my fair share of them dying and this seems to be the only possible cause now

Possible but IMO slightly less likely. More likely culprits are power (PSU) or heat. What sort of temps do the drive run at?