Has my F3 1tb went down in flames with my porn stash?

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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!
 
The diagnostic tool said to contact dealer/manufacturer so i'm guessing it's screwed.

now the important question is how do i rescue my porn? Get another 1tb and ghost it?
 
Your data is probably gone, this is why you should always back up things that you want to keep
 
I did put my old hard drive in the pc whic.h does work but it runs extremely slowly while the f3 is hooked up for some reason. yes i should have backed up which is why i will get another drive to do so in future
 
One last thing to check before chucking it is the SATA cable. I've issues with my disk running exceptionally slow and when I replaced the cable everything was tip-top again. Tha SATA cable can cause issues between data transmission to the MB/disk.

Since you have two disks it's worth testing it.
 
I changed the sata cable and have the same problem.

On the plus side i got into windows on my old drive in safe mode and was able to access one of the partitions which happened to contain my stash :D
Te other partition seems to be out of bounds though.

I guess now i should buy another 1tb drive to transfer everything onto and then send off the screwed drive to samsung to get it replaced under warranty? i'm thinking i can then RAID the drives so 1 backs up the other.

Should i format the drive before sending it to them?.
 
I changed the sata cable and have the same problem.

On the plus side i got into windows on my old drive in safe mode and was able to access one of the partitions which happened to contain my stash :D
Te other partition seems to be out of bounds though.

I guess now i should buy another 1tb drive to transfer everything onto and then send off the screwed drive to samsung to get it replaced under warranty? i'm thinking i can then RAID the drives so 1 backs up the other.

Should i format the drive before sending it to them?.

Raid sounds good. I have two 2 tb drives in raid in a nas so built in some redundancy. I would perhaps wipe things you dont want other seeing, I would format to be on the safe side. Assuming it lets you?
 
I'm now seriously giving some thought to the crucial M4 256gb SSD. It's enough to help get most of the files off the F3 and then i can transfer back when the replacement arrives.

With the silly price of mechanical HDD I think it's about worth it? Obviously they will come down even more but the price drop won't be that much for quite a while and it will tide me over till HDD pricing returns to normal.

... Convince me!
 
Well the M4 is a good SSD. Whether you really want to splash that cash on an SSD for your clunge collection.. thats entirely upto you! I'd just buy a second hand drive from somewhere until the screwed one is RMAd or otherwise replaced. Its not like you need really fast random access :)
 
Lol the SSD would be for games and OS, i would transfer the porn onto it til the RMA came back then i would put the stash on that.

The tightwad in me just needs the luxury of an SSD justified compared to spending £120 on another f3
 
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