neonhomer
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Re: [hard drive] Drive looses its mind
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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neonhomer
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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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