Help! Hardrive Options and Recovery Software
polycounter lvl 18
Long story short, my windows partition on my hardrive has gotten corrupted. The partition itself seems fine, but my back up Windows wants to reformat it even though it is NTFS. Partially luckily I keep all my programs and most files on other paritions. That and a "pure" copy of XP for emergencies (such as this).
This drive Im using is going bad.. or at least I think it is as its been acting funky.
Soo..
A: Whats a good solid hardrive under $100 thats a pure serial ATA? Fast, reliable, with a nice big cache. I would rather have a smaller MB per volume drive (IM fine right now with just 80 gigs), with more data integrety features than one with lots of space I would never use. I was looking at some Western Digitals? Maybe one from a company that still has(gasp), five year warranties.
I will be buying from Newegg.
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As per my problem, I really need to get into that windows or at least its registry. Things like my Steam licence are on it. So I would have to try reinstalling and updating from disks just to get that (not only that I think I forget my login information for it). That and my email data, resumes, and a project I was doing for tweak.
So anyone know of a free or shareware utility dos/linux (bootable)/xp based that can recover files/volumes on NTFS file systems? The ones I have been trying would charge near $100 to recover the information. While some of them charge even more to recover compressed data. Understand something like Norton wouldnt work, because Norton would have to be able to read the file system first.
This drive Im using is going bad.. or at least I think it is as its been acting funky.
Soo..
A: Whats a good solid hardrive under $100 thats a pure serial ATA? Fast, reliable, with a nice big cache. I would rather have a smaller MB per volume drive (IM fine right now with just 80 gigs), with more data integrety features than one with lots of space I would never use. I was looking at some Western Digitals? Maybe one from a company that still has(gasp), five year warranties.
I will be buying from Newegg.
Second
As per my problem, I really need to get into that windows or at least its registry. Things like my Steam licence are on it. So I would have to try reinstalling and updating from disks just to get that (not only that I think I forget my login information for it). That and my email data, resumes, and a project I was doing for tweak.
So anyone know of a free or shareware utility dos/linux (bootable)/xp based that can recover files/volumes on NTFS file systems? The ones I have been trying would charge near $100 to recover the information. While some of them charge even more to recover compressed data. Understand something like Norton wouldnt work, because Norton would have to be able to read the file system first.
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i've had a huge corruption problem every time i hit 80% full total with that, xp doesnt seem to do it (superior ide driver?)
also hddhealth is very cool
I think part of the problem is the ide hardrvive I have been using with a serial adapter. I think the drivers et all have gotten "beyond" its recognition to deal with this. Like last week my HD disconnected and the system BS, and I had to turn off the computer and jiggle the adapter to get it to reconnect.
It would be safer from this point out just to have a real Sata, and use this ide for backup/photoshop swap.
When I have that all set what command prompt tools should I use in it?
It sounds like I might have a corrupted boot sector on that partition. Im trying a program called iRecover to see what it pulls up, but its been over a hour and still only 22% in! That and its still $50 to purchase if it even can repair it.
This is like the HDD's i have.
Its 250gb, fast (cant get much faster with SATA unless you buy Raptor), has 16megs cache and under $100 from newegg it seems.
Now.. to my disk recovery... Help me Obi Won Polycount!
23% now...
I recommend Ontrack Data Advisor because I've seen it work many times.
It's funny - hard disk drives have been around what, 30 years now and people still don't back up.
I could tell more IF I could gain access to that partition. I mean you do realize I am using that same hardrive right now? Its one partition thats being naughty.
Didnt do it before because I didnt have a floppy and figured if a normal Windows wouldnt see it, why would the CD version?
So again, being shallow...
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