Hish Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Well, it me again. I had problems with my harddisk, the partition table to be more exact, but now that's fixed, now my other harddisk is screwing up my brain. It was all good until my brother installed a game i think (Conquer Online) and the harddisk could not be read. Every time I boot the computer now, i get this error screen saying that the harddisk is "BAD" and then i have to press F1. Then when trying to go into windows, it load and loads and loads, until i just disconnect the harddisk, then it goes into windows without anything unnormal. I've tried to check for errors in partition magic, and i got this: Error #1511 Bad restart record formatError #45 CRC error in dataOne important think you should know is that my harddisk it making some wierd noises. I have some very important files in there and i would not want it to be lost. Can anyone tell me what i can do? Harddisk = Fujitsu MPG3409AT E (40G)(Im running windows from another harddisk, and the other harddisk is not connected)thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big poppa pump Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 If the HDD is making wierd noises, thats a warning sign that the HDD is about to die. Try to salvage whatever your can from the HDD ASAP. You never know when the HDD is gonna bite the dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 If your HDD hangs the Windows boot and makes wierd noises, attempt to make a sector-by-sector image of its data. Copying files manually may aggravate the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hish Posted January 21, 2006 Author Share Posted January 21, 2006 If your HDD hangs the Windows boot and makes wierd noises, attempt to make a sector-by-sector image of its data. Copying files manually may aggravate the situation.Can you tell me how i can take the sector-by-sector image of its data? And i suppose that i should do it in dos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 The problem is that you need enough storage capacity to contain the image (another hard disk)It can be done from DOS, Win NT/2k/XP or Linux.Best option is to use a bootfloppy or bootcd on a machine that only has:1) the "damaged" hard disk2) a newish other oneSuitable FREEWARE apps:Windows:Roadkil's appshttp://www.roadkil.net/DSFOK:http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/DD for windows:http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htmBartPE:http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htmLinux:built-in dd commandhttp://www.partimage.org/http://ping.windowsdream.com/jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 The importance is that your Operating System must not attempt to write or read files from the disk during startup, as that can make it harder on an already failing drive. It is for this reason that I recommend it be done in DOS. Windows all versions will attempt to write or read certain files from the attached disks when it starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 LLXX I didnt know that. Cool bit of info.I would suggest a brand new hdd ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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