My current harddisc became corrupt and the machine wasn't bootable. System failure message was 0x0000007A
After a short harddisc check ( F12 while boot sequence) it showed me - fail error 7 or something like that.
With the Windows disk in the DVD drive i was able to run the DOS prompt and to command chkdsk /r. After this was done, it showed me the message: one failure found and repaired.
I restarted the machine and it worked again.
1. Next days i will get a new harddisc, because me still have a warranty for my machine. Will it be absolutly necessary to exchange the harddisc with the new one, or will the current one work after chkdsk repaired the failure? I will exchange. Just want to know.
2. As soon as i have the new harddisc and Windows XP SP2 installed, will it be easy to connecte the old one with the new one to copy all important files from disc to disc? I have two harddisc slots and two sata plugs.
i had corrupt HDDs 2 times. and both times i had to completely replace the discs and try to safe as much data as possible. i guess there are several causes that damage the harddisc, a damaged harddisc can sort of spread over the whole disc. allthough its repaired there is a chance that the damage goes to more sectors.
i d suggest not to use the harddisc anymore and replace it with a new one asap - that way you have a good chance to safe as many of your files as possible.
once you have a new HDD and windows installed, just switch the jumper of your old one to "slave" and transfer what you need from it. sometimes - if you make a partition, you can isolate the damaged sectors, too - ( fdisc ) but i wouldn t be too sure of that. if you do have sensible data on your disc ( exams, college stuff etc ) make sure to get them on a disc, cd, dvd or the new disc soon.
I would replace the corrupt drive with a new one. You can use the old drive as a second Hardisk, but when it starts corrupting sectors and headers, it can fail any day any time.
If you have the money for a second one, replace the one you have under garantue and buy yourself a fitting new drive. This way you will have 2 new harddisks and both will last way longer then your current one.
When you have installed your new drive, just install XPsp2 on that one and keep the old one connected. it will automaticly show up in your Explorer window and you can copy all you want (at least, if it isnt corrupt)
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you drive is going bye bye... back up....like yesterday....(i dont want you to lose your ships)
If it fails... here is a trick that some times help.
Take a sandwich back that is sealable...put the drive in there and put it in the freezer for 30 minutes.
As hardware components cool they allow for the parts to move again. Your drive may work for 30 minutes after that (no guarantees)
BTW, Staples has 300 gigger for sale for 69 bucks. www.staples.com
The easiest thing to do, is to plug your new drive into slave. Next use a program such as Symantec Ghost or any other drive cloning program. It will take a few hours but then you don't have to re-install anything. It will be exactly like your old hard drive.
Well, this is what I do for a living, data recovery that is. Depending on the size of the HDD they are very inexpensive these days. As opposed to using your warranty, I would just buy a new HDD, as depending on who you bought your computer from most of them want the old HDD back. Install the new one as the master, install XP on it and connect the other as a slave. Then move all of you important files over to the new one. I would then trash the failed one as it sounds as if it is on its way out.
You are very lucky you got it up and running again with chkdsc. That is pretty rare with the error code that you got. And as far as data recovery goes, you'd be looking at a minimum of $1500 USD to get your data back. This is my suggestion to all: BACKUP YOUR FILES REGURLARLY!
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Yes, would've helped one dude that had his whole business running on a desktop PC. He figured that his pc should be fine and he didn't want to take the time to back the files up. One day, boom. PC not bootable anymore, so he asked my Dad to fix it. My dad ran check disk, tried ghosting it, and everything (besides data recovery cuz the dude didn't want to pay a lot of money) In the end, my dad (or I) couldn't get off a single file off of the old hard drive.
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Single Damaged cluster generally is a hint for things to come. besides he talked about two incidents, not one.
I probably am being conservative and selfish (I would like to see his ships in the mods in the near future)
Unless he has a hard system shut down, he should not be developing bad clusters.
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