drshdw Posted June 25, 2002 Share Posted June 25, 2002 hi, i have a western digital ata66 oem 30 gig hd make 04 sep 2000. the harddrive recently died on me and i ran the wd diags. they said the harddrive have numerous sector problems which i believe to be near the front of the harddrive. is there any program that can lockout the first couple hundred sectors and not let it be detected so that when the bios reads the drive, it would start from where the sectors were not locked? thanks also if i had 3 partitions on it, is there any way that i could retrieve the information stored on the other two partitions? i cant seem to be able to read the hd though, i can see it in the device manager but in the system drive selection, no good. running winxp thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahodes1 Posted June 25, 2002 Share Posted June 25, 2002 Originally posted by aznx hi, i have a western digital ata66 oem 30 gig hd make 04 sep 2000. the harddrive recently died on me and i ran the wd diags. they said the harddrive have numerous sector problems which i believe to be near the front of the harddrive. is there any program that can lockout the first couple hundred sectors and not let it be detected so that when the bios reads the drive, it would start from where the sectors were not locked? thanks also if i had 3 partitions on it, is there any way that i could retrieve the information stored on the other two partitions? i cant seem to be able to read the hd though, i can see it in the device manager but in the system drive selection, no good. running winxp thanks If the beginning of the drive is dead, your FAT or MFT is dead. The data is fine, but the names are not. The drive is also dead if there is nowhere to put the MBR in the front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drshdw Posted June 25, 2002 Author Share Posted June 25, 2002 aww h*ll, is there anyway to recover it from the NTFS index? or create a new mbr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted June 25, 2002 Share Posted June 25, 2002 You could pay for data retrieval services, I am not too surprised by the fact it crashed since I've had 3 western digital drives fail on me in the last 4 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facktor Posted June 25, 2002 Share Posted June 25, 2002 Unfortuantly you would probably have to pay for data recovery, which is quite costly. That sucks you lost your data, but at least see if you can get it recovered and RMA the drive(dunno about their specific policy on OEM hardware though) I have had issues with WD drives in the past, but WD has been pretty good about RMA's. Backup your stuff, it's always critical and very important. Best of luck --Facktor-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drshdw Posted June 25, 2002 Author Share Posted June 25, 2002 can't get rma out of date =, thanks anyhow...no way to stop read of 1st few sectors? do markers work? =P.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahodes1 Posted June 25, 2002 Share Posted June 25, 2002 Originally posted by aznx can't get rma out of date =, thanks anyhow...no way to stop read of 1st few sectors? do markers work? =P.. Sure they do, but you need one of those special partitioning pens... lol You'll get it if you read the tutorial on April Fools Day on how to partition your HD. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CustardFD Posted June 25, 2002 Share Posted June 25, 2002 The only way I can think of is to put the hard drive into another machine and run chkdisk from that. It depends how badly your MFT is mashed as to what it can recover... There are probably 3rd party utils to do it though. I've never thought about it before, but my defrag software moves the MFT and pagefile on a relatively regular basis. I guess that reduces the stress on a partuclar part of the disk as a security precuation, althought it shouldn't be nessisery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drshdw Posted June 25, 2002 Author Share Posted June 25, 2002 oh hmm, thanks anyhow guys, getting a new seagate.........screw wd, too bad can't recover files though = maybe i could open it up and take out a platter? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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