hard drive problem

worthingsaxovtr · 28 May 2007 at 23:33

hi

I have 2 hard drives on one IDE cable, one as master one as slave

the slave has decided to give up the ghost, as in windows still recognises, can copy individual tracks but any large amount of data it fails on

i have done the usual check disk defrag etc etc but it still doesnt want to know, so will throw it

however I have a large amount of material on there I want to save, would something like norton ghost allow me to pull all the material of

cheers

nigel

Olly · 29 May 2007 at 13:51

not sure if ghost will work, as it still has to read the data off it in the first place.

when you say large amounts of data, do you mean huge files or just lots of small files ?

if its the latter then you'd have to copy little by little.

If its huge files, im not sure...what does scandisk say ?

worthingsaxovtr · 29 May 2007 at 15:19

huge files as in albums

it will songs one by one, but anything more like 4 songs at a time just fails

tried it in another machine and it does exaxctly the same

Dr_Evil · 29 May 2007 at 15:25

have you tried running a checkdisk or norton diskdoctor on it yet?

make sure you do a full thorought surface scan.

worthingsaxovtr · 29 May 2007 at 15:30

I have run scandisk inside windows,

is that the same as checkdisk

cheers

nigel

Olly · 29 May 2007 at 15:36

scandisk is basically the same as chkdsk. if scandisk cant lock the drive it will schedule a scandisk on next bootup, which is chkdsk.

just interesed in seeing what it says

looks like your gonna be transferring songs one by one

worthingsaxovtr · 29 May 2007 at 16:08

it starts of and then never finnishes,

same with defrag starts never finnishes,

there must be some way of copying everything of, what about data recovery tools or such things

Dr_Evil · 29 May 2007 at 16:09

try UBCD (google) and run the HD diagnostics software for your HD manufacturer on there.

worthingsaxovtr · 29 May 2007 at 16:30

just had a look for UBCD

and wow cheers for that will be very very handy

nigel

worthingsaxovtr · 30 May 2007 at 20:14

right the results of my chkdsk /f /r

are it got to stage 4 of 5

and hung on 39% for at least 3 hours, so I killed it and rebooted my machine

Dr_Evil · 31 May 2007 at 10:21

copy your data off for as much as you can and replace it. It's broken.