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hey folks.. I have an ABit KT7 raid motherboard with 1g Athlon and a pair of 45gb IBM 75GXPs in a striped RAID 0 setup.
Recently got a bad sector (or at least I think it is) where if you access a given sector, it'll make a whirring noise and just sit there. The computer doesn't lock up, but the drives just sit there.
Silly me, I try to run windows 98 console (dos) scandisk, and it finds the sector, asks me if I want to fix - after I hit yes, it just sits there. After a few hours, I reboot the machine only to find ONE FREAKING FILE - scandisk.log.
Used 2 different data recovery apps, none work - they all scan the drive, hit that "bad" sector and hang. Tried norton disk doctor - it hit that sector (always 93% of the way through) and then the HD light went off, and it starts going through it at a pace of about 100 sectors per minute (out of 180 million). Does this even SOUND like a bad sector? OR is there some kind of physical damage to the drive(s) ?
Am I screwed? Does anyone know of a way I can get my data off? Can I UNraid the drives and run ndd separtely on them?
If anyone has a solution, I'd be very grateful. I'm a starving college student and can't afford one of those data recovery services.
Thanks!!
Recently got a bad sector (or at least I think it is) where if you access a given sector, it'll make a whirring noise and just sit there. The computer doesn't lock up, but the drives just sit there.
Silly me, I try to run windows 98 console (dos) scandisk, and it finds the sector, asks me if I want to fix - after I hit yes, it just sits there. After a few hours, I reboot the machine only to find ONE FREAKING FILE - scandisk.log.
Used 2 different data recovery apps, none work - they all scan the drive, hit that "bad" sector and hang. Tried norton disk doctor - it hit that sector (always 93% of the way through) and then the HD light went off, and it starts going through it at a pace of about 100 sectors per minute (out of 180 million). Does this even SOUND like a bad sector? OR is there some kind of physical damage to the drive(s) ?
Am I screwed? Does anyone know of a way I can get my data off? Can I UNraid the drives and run ndd separtely on them?
If anyone has a solution, I'd be very grateful. I'm a starving college student and can't afford one of those data recovery services.
Thanks!!