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Hard Drive Dying How To Rescue Data
Hi all, I have two hard disks in my windows box.
The disk with the windows OS is perfectly fine and boots normally.
The second disk is a 1TB Seagate SATA disk where I store personal files. I have about 160 gigs of files on it. This is the disk that has issues.
If I boot to windows with the second drive connected windows either doesn't boot or boots but runs extremely slowly and just doesn't respond.
If I disonnect the second drive with my personal files on then Windows boots normally and works fine which indicates the hard drive with windows on it is normal.
I used a Linux live cd to see if the failing second disk is there and its size to validate if there are any files on it.
In Linux on the live CD I can see the disk size and that 160 gigs is used so my files are there.
When I try to mount the disk in linx I get the following errors -
I can boot to windows with the disk connected to try this so I used the windows install CD and access recovery tools but it does not seem to reconize the disk is there as when I runCode:Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory.
It tells me the disk is write protected, which I am guessing indicates its referencing the CD I am booting of as it can not see my hard drive.Code:checkdsk /f
So couple of questions -
1) When at the command prompt with the windows repair tools what command can I issue to see what disks it has detected and drive letter paths mounted?
2) Is there anything else anyone can suggest?
Thanks!