10 months old F3 1tb drive split into 2 500gb partitions with Win 7 64bit on primary partition and XP on secondary.
Worked fine yesterday, no indication of impending doom flicked it on this morning and it kept restarting just as it got into windows, tried booting from xp but same thing.
Shoved in my old 160gb drive and booted from that but it runs extremely slowly with the F3 still attached, takes bloody ages booting into windows and doing anything once inside.
Only thing i could think to do was run check disk by right clicking on the partitions in XP and using the tools to run scandisk and checking fix automatically.
managed to do it with the primary partition after some trying but i don't know the results from that as i was AFK when it finished and don't think it had a summary. When i right click on the secondary partition i get the shell options but the menus just freeze when i click on properties.
Is there any way i can run chkdsk on the 2nd partition?
If the drive is screwed how do i rescue the data off it, can i buy a another 1tb and ghost everything off?
I have over 300gb of filth on the 2nd partition that i would give my right hand (lol ok left) to save!
Worked fine yesterday, no indication of impending doom flicked it on this morning and it kept restarting just as it got into windows, tried booting from xp but same thing.
Shoved in my old 160gb drive and booted from that but it runs extremely slowly with the F3 still attached, takes bloody ages booting into windows and doing anything once inside.
Only thing i could think to do was run check disk by right clicking on the partitions in XP and using the tools to run scandisk and checking fix automatically.
managed to do it with the primary partition after some trying but i don't know the results from that as i was AFK when it finished and don't think it had a summary. When i right click on the secondary partition i get the shell options but the menus just freeze when i click on properties.
Is there any way i can run chkdsk on the 2nd partition?
If the drive is screwed how do i rescue the data off it, can i buy a another 1tb and ghost everything off?
I have over 300gb of filth on the 2nd partition that i would give my right hand (lol ok left) to save!