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Hard drive was fine, now it's not?
Ioargra:
I'd suggest the ultimate boot cd, it has memtest on it, as well as piles of other useful tools to help test/diagnose issues, and a bunch of hdd testing tools.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
ark_ader:
Could be the electronics on the hard drive. Find another hard drive that is identical and then use the other drives electronics.
Its a pain but it can solve your issue.
Ioargra:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on October 04, 2008, 12:12:11 pm ---Could be the electronics on the hard drive. Find another hard drive that is identical and then use the other drives electronics.
Its a pain but it can solve your issue.
--- End quote ---
Its also generally a last resort since it can also have negative effects, like differant firmware, differant drive table, etc.
Turnarcades:
I have two 160Gb drives in my new machine, and found after much programming (and no backing up) the main one went funny on me and would only boot 50% of the time. Luckily I caught it on a good day, cloned the drive to the second drive and now I have them on a constant ghosting cycle so if one goes down the other is ok. This prevents much tears if you've done a lot of custom work on your software and one drive eventually gives up.
davidrfoley:
If there is data on there that is difficult to replace, you may want to try HDD Regenerator. It's the best program we've ever found for fixing hard drives. Another useful tool is SpinRite from Gibson Research. In both cases, I would recommend duplicating the drive as soon as you have run the repairs on it to back up your data. Once hard drive errors start, they rarely go away.
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