neonhomer
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| [hard drive] Drive looses its mind
I have a 160GB Maxtor drive... the only Maxtor left in my system (everything else is either WD or Seagate). A year or so ago, out of the blue, the drive lost half of its contents. Tried CHKDSK, and it suceeded in just screwing the drive up more. (Went from seeing it and a few file in Windows to it appearing as unformatted.)
Was able to save it by running Spinrite on it for a couple of days to get the first few blocks recovered, and then was able to offload 99% of the data. Formatted the drive, ran it through the battery of tests that are on the Maxblast disc, and it gave it a clean bill of health. I chalked it up to an oddity, and reloaded my data.
Fast forward to today... same exact problem. Like an idiot, I ran CHKDSK and it screwed the drive.
I am now running Spinrite on the drive, and it is stating it will take about 890 hours to complete the Level 2 scan.
If I get this drive to come back to life, I am offloading the data, and then pulling the drive and putting a .40 S&W round through it.
So, if Spinrite fails, is there anything else I can do short of sending the drive to be recovered. The data is not that critical. I don't know what actually failed, if it was the FAT table, MFT, or what.
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neonhomer
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| Some additonal info... After running Spinrite and Testdrive on it, I still can't see the partition in Windows. I am also not able to see the partition at the command prompt level. When I type in the drive letter to switch to it, I get a CRC error (Data Errorr ).
However, if I run CHKDSK on it, it sees the partition without problem.
Any ideas?
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No worries... I figured it out. |
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neonhomer
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1 edit | Used Spinrite to recover the first 1% of the drive. Then used FixDisk (I think) to recover the partition info from the backup that is made automatically on the disc. Recovered MBR data.
Used CHKDSK /f again on the disc, and it came back.
Quickly got my data off the drive... all 160GB of it...
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1 edit | said by neonhomer  :Used Spinrite to recover the first 1% of the drive. Then used FixDisk (I think) to recover the partition info from the backup that is made automatically on the disc. Recovered MBR data. Used CHKDSK /f again on the disc, and it came back. Quickly got my data off the drive... all 160GB of it... Is it possible, since you actually sound in your first post like you know what you are doing and that your problem was somewhat odd, that no one had anything of use to offer before you found the solution yourself, less than 24 hours later?
I read your initial post the same day you posted, but couldn't think of anything useful to help you, so chose not to post at all. I suspect I wasn't the only one.
Thanks for posting back your solution. It might help someone else who runs into a similar situation.
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Re: [hard drive] Drive looses its mind
The only time I had seen this was when a customer had a strategically placed bad sector in the MBR. I was unable to recover it using standard means, I had to run get data back on it and recovered all of the data. The next time I have an issue like that I will try your method.
Thanks for the info! 
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