WD Caviar SE SATA HDD Wont Boot to XP
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Jan 15, 2010 at 08:00 PM
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Jan 15, 2010 at 08:00 PM
If the SMART system tells you the drive is bad there is little chance the you can access the files. It's time to replace the drive and re-install Windows. You might be able to use the drive as a secondary drive and be able to salvage some of the data. Sorry for the bad news.
Its time to be replaced I know that.
But I wanna know how to recover the data from this ailing drive. There is no sound so, physically it seems in better state than other sound making drives with ba sectors. The drive wont even let the primary drive to boot to XP Desktop. so you know how bad the situation is.
Once I had the same typa problem and i hooked this drive as slave with a Mastr drive and Norton System Works reinstated the broken partition. But now I dont have the hold of that software. Anyone else with any other suggestion?
But I wanna know how to recover the data from this ailing drive. There is no sound so, physically it seems in better state than other sound making drives with ba sectors. The drive wont even let the primary drive to boot to XP Desktop. so you know how bad the situation is.
Once I had the same typa problem and i hooked this drive as slave with a Mastr drive and Norton System Works reinstated the broken partition. But now I dont have the hold of that software. Anyone else with any other suggestion?
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Jan 16, 2010 at 01:15 PM
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Jan 16, 2010 at 01:15 PM
You might try this program
https://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Free-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html?tag=mncol
Good Luck
https://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Free-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html?tag=mncol
Good Luck
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Jan 17, 2010 at 03:44 PM
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Jan 17, 2010 at 03:44 PM
This sounds like a logic board problem - some people have transferred the circuit board from another drive and been able to read the data from the broken drive. The problem is in finding an exact matching drive.