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"frank" <frankmcma@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thingy,
>
> Good info thanks. I have two external Maxtor one touch 250GB firewire
> drives. Both have been working great but it seems as they are filling up I
> am getting more errors. The errors are fixed during XP boot up, but these
> fixes are randomly deleting and repairing bad sectors, so I am losing
> data.
>
> All the data on both drives I have duplicate copies on duplicate CDs (yes
> I am good!) so no need for recovery. Really I just want to somehow fix the
> drives, get software that can map out bad sectors so they are not used.
> Again the drives have been working great but it seems as they are getting
> more and more full I am having more errors pop up.
>
> Any suggestions are great..thanks
>
> Frank
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> "Thingy" <strokie2003@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> "frank" <frankmcma@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> Having some errors on external hard drives and need a good software
>>> program that can repair and get external drives in shape...any
>>> suggestions?
>>
>> Most decent hard disk repair software[1] will gost you about the same
>> price as
>> a new hard disk, so if this is for a home PC, it's not really worth it.
>> The first thing you
>> have to do is get as much of the data as possible off the hard disk
>> you're having
>> problems with - put it onto a different hard disk, not just a partition
>> on the
>> disk that is playing up. If you can get all the data off the drive, then
>> open up a
>> command window, and type in:
>> chkdsk z: /f /r
>> (where z: is the drive letter of the disk)
>> If that's no good, *AND YOU HAVE ALL THE DATA COPIED OFF THE DRIVE*
>> format the disk, but don't use a quick format, copy (not move) the data
>> back
>> to the drive and see if the problems happen again. If they do, then you
>> will
>> most likely need a new drive.
>>
>> I'm guessing this external drive is using USB or firewire. If that's
>> the case there's
>> a 99% chance it is simply an EIDE hard disk, which you can remove from
>> the
>> external case and simply replace the disk.
>> If the drive is a standard one, and you've managed to get the data off it
>> before it
>> starts throwing errors, you could take the drive out of the external
>> case,
>> put it internally and use a drive diagnostic tool to see if that can
>> detect anything
>> unusual - most manufacturers have these tools available from their
>> websites.
>>
>> I've got to also point out that before you do anything with that disk,
>> you have got to
>> see if you can copy the data off first, as some recovery programs can be
>> a tad aggressive
>> when trying to recover data - if the recovery program fails, then you
>> could wind up
>> with a dead disk and no data at all[2]. If that happens, I suggest you
>> find a soft wall
>> to bang your head against, because brick ones hurt.
🙂
>>
>> [1] Thinking specifically Easy Recovery Pro, here.
>> [2] Unless you want to spent insane amounts of money.
>>
>> --
>> Thingy.
>>
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