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Main HDD is dying :(

vbt - Sep 3, 2006

		vbt		Sep 3, 2006
			My 82 GB IBM is al most dead I cannot bot on W2000. The only thing I managed to duplicate is mails I will surely loose all collected games and other things.

		Pyrite		Sep 3, 2006
			When you boot windows with another drive and set that HD to slave can you read the content? I managed to save some data this way when my old 3GB HD was tripping but this was a very long time ago.

		vbt		Sep 3, 2006
			That's what I did, that's how I wrote here ( I know NX pass but not SX) I didn't manage to save everything from W98(took hours and sme reboot,shutdown) and then went to buy a new HDD of 300Go. I restarted to to try to save data without success. I tried Windows 2000 scandisk/chkdsk,windows98 scandisk and also OnTrack FixIt utilities before and it fixed nothing... My last try was DOS scan disk It found a sector dead on another partition and now my HDD works again as new, I don't understand why another partition gave so many problems, HDD was alsao doing "tac tac tac ..."

		Pyrite		Sep 3, 2006
			Yeah when they start to make those sounds its a sign they are ready to hit the trash bin.

		vbt		Sep 5, 2006
			Pyrite said: Yeah when they start to make those sounds its a sign they are ready to hit the trash bin. Yesterday I wasn't able to copy program files and winnt so I won't do update while I have not moved everything to the new HDD(not yet plugged).

		vbt		Sep 6, 2006
			HDD installed I only have to plug my old hdd to get files of my old FTP.