Advice on hard drives

right.......I tried to defrag the other week and found my hard drive got bad sectors now my computer wont even boot up.
Finds all my bits DVD, CD writer blah blah then shows Windows ME....and thats it.

Could the bad sectors have caused my baby to die?

 

yep, maybe the only way to get your data is to set it up as a slave. (2nd hard drive on another pc.

 

I'm lucky got second copies of my college work and the software I can get again not a big deal.

 

It's not a Maxtor by any chance is it? //spits

 

no actually a western digital hard drive

 

sounds like re-formatting might solve the problem. but thats going to be a bit difficult if it wont boot.

why not trying booting it from the boot disk you made, then re-formatting it.

and if that doesnt work... well buying a new hard disk is your only real solution.

 

did that before and it been working fine for two months and now killed over

 

try swearing at it. or threaten it with WD - 40 !

i dont know what you mean? what did you do? boot disk or new hard drive?

 

I've always had probs with the hard drive and it did this before when it wouldnt start so it got reformatted and worked til recently did this about two weeks back and decided after 10 times of me trying to start it to work.....now wont start at all

 

If you mean re-formatting then this could be expected. It is only a delaying maneuver until you get yourself another HD. The bad sectors always reappear, usually in greater number, spreading like a forest fire. I had a Conner disk pull that one on me.

 

well. youve had it then. sorry to be a bit negative

its not all bad. at least you can get to us.

why not make your own hard drive out of a frisbee, a sewing needle, and half a motherboard.

i saw it on blue peter. either that of i drank too much smirnoff ice too quickly last night.

 

lol only problem is it costs money I dont have alot of it, and I actually need to be on during the evenings as I am a moderator on another board

maybe I can sell myself for the money

 

oh bloody hell people.

reformat.
defrag.
Partition the disk (so that you don't use the bad sectors)
reload on your stuff



Voilaaa!



Ofcourse, it would be advisable to still get a new one and use this as a slave drive.

 

I'd buy if I had the funds myself.
You wouldn't be interested in a Conner HD, would you?

 

no lol

TC windows wont defrag with bad sectors I already tried that...

I'll just buy one somehow it be easier

 

if you do sell yourself remember:

1) ask for money upfront
2) put an advert in the local newspapers shop window
3) tory MPs are easy money
4) dont bother apply for a natinal lottery grant instead

 

This is how garrett gets his men...

 

lol

nahh hopefully the money from working on the bank holiday should cover it but that dont go in my bank til friday

 

women only... i do special offers...

//raises eyebrows

managers specials

//purrs

 

Get a parrot and train it to make the noises that hard drive make and put it in your pc case and it will work better then any hard drive you have ever had. It does need feeding though because otherwise it will make the noise of a bad hard drive and then you lose some data

 

lmao

nothing wrong with my 2gb its just very small, I have quite large files for projects and use lots of software for imaging and web creation so need slightly larger than 2gb

 

How large a disk do you need? - I can see what's lying around.

Also - don't use windows tools.

 

You get all the luck PC wise huh J?

First the BIOS, now this. Really, a new HD is the best way to go, once the sectors start appearing, that's it usually...

 

I want one thats gonna last as last I looked my thing was using 5gb on software and MP3s, I am looking now at a new 30gb hard drive may even get a larger one depending on how much I am paid on friday

 

Did I mention that my PC blew up last week?

The power supply went up in flames, knocking out the motherboard, both hard drives, the cd-writer, the dvd-rom and the sound card.

Waiting for the insurance firm to pick it up tomorrow.