Scarecrow Man Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 As the title says, I have a failing drive. At least that's what I am assuming.When the drive is in the original computer, scandisk starts, hangs for 20 minutes then reports there are FAT errors and scandisk cannot continue. Windows loads, but hangs every few minutes for about 30 seconds.So I made the drive a slave in a different computer and tried chkdsk. chkdsk will not work, and gives an error every time it is run. I have also tried DiskInternals Fat Recovery 1.2, with no luck. Is my drive dead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4may Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 Have you tried the Manufactures Utilities to test the HDD or return it to 'Factory Setting State'If these fail then your Drive is Dead as a Dodo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 I've tried http://www.nu2.nu/utils/#disktool but I can only do scans, and lists errors. There is no way to fix the error from within this program.EDIT: Drive is a Fujitsu MPE3064AT 6.4GB manufacturerd 09/99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 Tried this ?linkV 1.51 is the latest.Can the HDD Regenerator repair your drive? Almost 60 % of damaged hard disks can be repaired by regeneration. You can always download free demo version and try to regenerate the first found bad sector. The main purpose of the unregistered demo version is to display a report which contains information about the possibility to regenerate the entire disk by means of the registered full version. If the first found bad sector has been successfully regenerated, you can buy the product to regenerate all bad sectors on your hard drive. If the first bad sector has NOT been successfully regenerated, then replace your hard disk drive as soon as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 Boris that HDD Regenerator utility sounds a useful program to have so I have saved it to my favourites. You never know when it may come in handy and also you can try before you buy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Update:chkdsk stops at 25%...unrecoverable read errorsformat takes almost 24 hours and shows "trying to recover allocation unit ###" and after format is complete, windows setup does not work.I am going to try this drive in another computer, and thanks for the link boris. I will try that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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