Windows XP hard drive borks it.....

**jduffy** · 10-08-2006, 05:23 PM

I haven't posted since like Thursday or something. Have had two shaves during that time and they were both lousy.

I have been trying to save whatever files I could from the hard drive but not much luck. Somehow the thing got corrupted. What a royal pain! I have a back up but it's a few months old and I had been doing a lot of work during that time.

Don't know if it was a virus or a 4 year old drive just going bad. If I can't get some more of the files off of it, I'm going to take it to a data recovery place and see what they can do.

What a horrible week last week was. I need a shave!

**MasonM** · 10-08-2006, 05:27 PM

Sorry to read about your computer troubles. They can be a real pain.

**rvbert0** · 10-08-2006, 05:28 PM

Just happened to me... what a pain in the @ss. I forgot how hard it was to install WinXP, post SP1 disk, onto a SATA HD, when Win XP doesn't have native SATA drivers with it.

4 hours later I got it up and running.

**catatonic** · 10-08-2006, 05:30 PM

Hopefully it's just a corrupted table of contents for the drive, so the actual data is intact, just not in the places that the TOC is pointing to.

Those are a serious pain to recover, but can be.

I had to do some data recoveray on a hard drive with a failed circuit board a few months ago. It involved swapping in a good controller board, and swapping out the eeprom with the one from the bad board....huge pain in the rump.

**Jim** · 10-08-2006, 05:41 PM

I hope your day gets better Jim!

**Leisureguy** · 10-08-2006, 05:59 PM

Hope you can save everything. I read at some point the dictum "Every hard drive fails. It's a question of when, not if." I took it to heart, and I have a .5 TB Maxtor OneTouch II external hard drive connected to my XP Dell 9100 via USB 2.0, and Retrospect for Windows runs a backup automatically every day at 4:00 p.m. It does a smart backup, backing up only the changes, and you can restore not only individual files, but earlier versions of those files---though eventually it will purge the oldest versions to make room (all automatically). It has greatly reduced data anxiety for me, and it wasn't terribly expensive. I did try the backup software that came free with the external hard drive, but eventually purchased the backup software for more capability. (I think that was $65)

**MasonM** · 10-08-2006, 05:59 PM

Technology is great...when it works.

**JMT** · 10-08-2006, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by rvbert0

I forgot how hard it was to install WinXP, post SP1 disk, onto a SATA HD, when Win XP doesn't have native SATA drivers with it.

I can say with all honesty that I do not have any idea what any of this means.

Sorry to hear about your computer problems. I had a usb drive go bad on me last year, I could not imagine if the hard drive on my computer crashed...
...I think I am going to go buy some CD's tomorrow.

**rtaylor61** · 10-08-2006, 07:30 PM

Jim,

The important question is what you are going to do about those lousy shaves?

Randy

**sparky5693** · 10-09-2006, 01:51 PM

Those sata drivers can be a real pain if its your only computer thats down. If you havent already make yourself an emergency disk with those drivers and others.