[plug] hdd problem

[Brad Campbell]

Daniel wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 08:50, Darren wrote:
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>>howdy i have a problem with a 40gb drive (fat32) ,i cannot access the
>>drive it is not noisey and is detected by the bios ok.there is a  lot of
>>data on this drive that i would like to recover ,under win2k the drive
>>size is reported as unknown and 640gb. i suspect that both fats may have
>>a problem .can anyone suggest a method or software they use to firstly
>>repair the fats?  or to recover the data off the drive .thanks
>>Darren
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>Hi Darren,
>I'm not an expert on this, but first I would try to read it by manually
>mounting it with tomsrtbt floppy.  http://www.toms.net/rb/
>and failing that I am afraid you might have to resort to one of
>Symantec's Norton Utilities for Windows fix it tools.
>Let us know how you get on.
>Cheers,
>Daniel.
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Before you let anything else loose on it, use spinrite!
If you do any work with dos/windows machines spinrite is an invaluable 
purchase.
I have lost count of the times people have come to me with unreadable 
floppies that spinrite has been able to recover, and for early diagnosis 
of pending HD failure or just general fault diagnosis/repair, it's the 
eighth wonder of the world.

Even Norton disk doctor is a hammer driving a screw when you have a 
hardware problem.
Spinrite has even recovered dodgy hard disk sectors for me and put them 
somewhere else.
Shame it's fat only though.

Brad

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