My Harddrive Has Failed Me...........

airyKairyK Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11126Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">so lame, whats happening?</div> Well this is what happend. i was using my computer then all of a sudden my computer froze up. Then when i rebooted my slave drive showed nothing on it, showed it had no partition etc.! i cant figure it out. so i decided maybe the boot sector got screwed up -- ive seen it happend a few times, once on my computer and few more times on a friend's computer. so i threw in the XP cd went to the repair console Fixboot'ed it and now this is what it gave me * see attached screenie* what the heck happend? i cant figure it out........
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  • ArcadiusArcadius Join Date: 2003-04-14 Member: 15491Members
    Ok, just want to make sure I understand all that is going on before I try to offer help or anything. Is your C drive and everything else still good? How big is the D supposed to be normally? When you put in the XP disk did you by chance go into setup and see if the missing space on D is listed as unpartioned or anything like that?
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  • OrcristOrcrist Join Date: 2002-12-18 Member: 11050Members
    Ouch. I once had that happen to me too <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ConfuzorConfuzor Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2412Awaiting Authorization
    It's not gigs; it's megs...
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  • airyKairyK Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11126Members
    its a 80 GB harddrive, it didnt have a partition on it------- after it screwed up but it had fat32...im working on the situation...hopefully i can save it
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    My recommendation would be to buy a copy of PartitionMagic. That has a LOT more tools (as well as in-depth analysis) than the built-in windoze crud (and may even be able to salvage the 'dead' areas if it's simply a loss of the indexing tables). Also, SpinRite may be helpful in determining if it's the physical HDD that's failing.. at which point it's 'new disk time' anyway. If so, hope you kept your warranty papers.
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