HDD 'died' cyclic redundancy error

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Hitachi probably made that drive for IBM. Download the Hitachi Feature Tool. From it, you can create a floppy boot disk with programs that access the drive in DOS bypassing windows. If the drive has a data problem F tool will enable you to format and I think rewrite the MBR. If it is a hardware problem with the disk, F tool will hang also. bg

I`ve swapped out plenty of failed Fujitsu and Maxtor drives, and not only in PC`s. I try to only buy Quantum and Seagate drives these days but I`m sure everyone has their own tales to tell.

RonUK

restarted

restart.

I never buy cutting edge hard drives. I chose somewhere in the middle of the curve, and have never had an in warranty hard drive failure, in over 10 years of using them.

restart.

I thought Quantum was gone?

restarted

restart.

Home/SOHO use is a bit different than where I placed these servers in industrial/commercial applications.

Brilliant. I should have thought of that. Thanks.

Graham

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martin

well if it's a cyclic redundancy error that means that the key that windows has on file for the data on the drive no longer matches what the drive is reporting ergo drive is corrupted. Deskstars of that age are notorious for dying randomly (my uncle went through 2 pairs of drives in his raid 0 before switching to seagate 320GB SATA with a controller card earlier this year) Desktars are known in the computer world as deathstars for a reason. I've never personally had one die on me but then again the 2 laptops I had previous to this one (a thinkpad I series and a dell latitude (don't flame I was in college when I bought the first one and it died on me and the dell was purchased by my parents as a replacement it was used and I sold it to buy the acer dual core i'm typing this post on) . back on point junk the drive unless you really really need the data and go with a seagate, WD or Maxtor drive all better drives and with prices now falling (I live in Canada and 500GB drives are now $130) you can get ~

Strongly seconded.

disktools with

formatted

Boot win98's DOS from a floppy and see if you can "see" the drive. Win9x is much better at dealing with imperfect drive issues than is NT/2000/XP and plain DOS is even better than win for drive funnies. But try SPINRITE first.

It's hardly worth $89 to resuscitate an old 20GB drive.

Graham

disktools with

formatted

Thanks for that advice.

Is there a trial version ? It's $89 to buy.

Graham

No, but they'll gladly refund your purchase price if it doesn't work for you. This happened to me... I had a partially-dead hard drive, and after trying various options, bought a copy of SpinRite. It couldn't do any better, so I e-mailed them and they did immediately credit the purchase back to my Visa.

Steve Gibson (the author) has been around forever, and while he's definitely something of a character, he is completely honest.

That's excellent service.

Graham

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:56:00 -0400, Spehro Pefhany put finger to keyboard and composed:

In Win9x you can enable command line history by typing "doskey".

- Franc Zabkar

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:23:02 +0100, Eeyore put finger to keyboard and composed:

As I said, I'm basically ignorant of XP, and what little I know about it I learnt from watching alt.msdos.batch, and by working [reluctantly] on friends' machines.

In any case other XP users have suggested that you would be better off using cmd.exe. In fact, if I were to include just one feature of XP in Win98SE, it would be XP's extensions to batch language.

- Franc Zabkar

Points to them for inventing Winchester technology. That said, their so-called fix for the Deathstar drives didn't work. I got hold of one early, lightly used and long before its first click of death. I applied the fix and sent it home. The friend brought it back inside of a year, clicking away, and though we managed to salvage a little data, most of it went the way of the Deathstar.

Command.com is NOT "stripped". It has never had a history function without running a TSR to manage it. That would have been (not anymore) DOSKey.

Thanks! I guess that I just imagined the computer room with our Prime mini-computer and racks full of Compaq servers.