Is my Hard disk screwed?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 - 12:16pm
Yeah so I was downloading stuff and I decided to drop my laptop from like 3 feet, and immediately it stopped recognizing my C: drive...
It's just one hard disk, and it has 2 partitions, and the D: partition seems to be fine...
I ran chkdsk /r yesterday and it's been running for like 24 hours... and it's at 63% =P
Do you think my disk is f*cked, or what? I tried reformatting with the windows install disk it but XP kept giving me errors.
I think I just lost a lot of porn : (
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Dude, that stuff needs to be backed up on at least one external hard drive.
Chumpy wrote:
Malor wrote:
Is the percentages still moving (even if slow)? Does the drive sound like it is moving? If it stays at 63% for another hour I'd say it's time to start looking for a new drive.
Do you ever walk alone like a drifter in the dark?
Yeah, it's moving at a rate of 1% every couple of hours...
What I don't understand is: If it's 1 disk, with 2 partitions, why is one partition fine?
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Probably has a lot to do with where the drive heads were positioned when it was dropped.
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*Legion* wrote:
When the laptop hit the floor, the slider/head probably slapped against the disk and damaged the area underneath. A slider is roughly 1mm x 1mm in size, so anything underneath it would most likely be damaged/lost data. Assuming that the slider itself is okay, the non-damaged sections should be useable. But I can imagine the damaged section preventing you from accessing the data "on the other side".
But I would buy a replacement drive as soon as possible in case the slider was damaged. Once that looses the ability to read/write data, you can't recover any of your data. Some modern hard drives can sense when your laptop is falling and move the slider/head away from the data so you won't physically damage the disk (but you can still hurt the laptop).
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Mex, I strongly recommend stopping the CHKDSK and run SpinRite. If the disk has physical damage, running CHKDSK could very well make it worse and it stresses the drive. SpinRite has the potential to put your drive right enough for you to get your stuff off it though after you retrieve your data, I would recommend replacing it.
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I'll second PA on SpinRite.
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Long answer: I'll third SpinRite
Short answer: Yes
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Well, I just gave up... SpinRite does seem like it would recover the data, but it would take about a week to do so... And really, I don't mind looking for new porn
A friend checked the drive and apparently it is well and truly screwed, something about the reading heads or something. I'll see if I can get a replacement for the warranty at least n_n
Thanks Parallax for the Spinrite recommendation! =)
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