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Trying to recover failing HDD
I wonder if anyone can advise please?
I have a failing IDE drive which I need to stabilise just long enough to copy off some data.
[Memo to Self: Do more backups during the day!]
On start-up the HDD no longer appears in the BIOS drive listing.
However, Win 7 does detect it at start-up and goes through a CHKDSK routine and whilst some "File record segment xxx is unreadable" warnings are displayed, it does seem to read some of the files because it re-indexes them and displays the file name.
After this is complete, Win 7 works as usual, but the drive does not appear in either Explorer or under Disk Management.
Are there any tricks to force Win 7 to perform a full CHKDSK /R repair at startup, even if the drive cannot be 'seen'?
Desperation looms!
Many thanks for reading this!