-=PCTechTalk=- Re: HD Companies
- From: "~OoO~" <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 07:52:45 -0400
Nope... no magnet. First few years I had all my systems in a dedicated room,
and definitely not much in there that could damage magnetic media.
Although, now, due to the baby, that room is no longer a computer room. And,
the all my systems are cluttered up in my living room. Only thing next to it is
my 40-inch tube TV, and even that is at least 6 feet away.
I think it probably has more to do with the much handling I do on the hard
drives. I do a lot of switching drives from one system to the other, and tend
to pull the towers out from there stationary spot to work on 'em. So, maybe
that's the blame there.
I still find it odd that my drives would go bad so often. Even with magnetic
interference, I would just lose data... all that would be fixed after I format
the drive. In my case, the physical drive has gone bad.
hmmm...
---Troth
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From: Barnstoneworth
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Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:11 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: HD Companies
----- Original Message -----
From: "~OoO~" <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PCTechTalk" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:49 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- HD Companies
> Let's talk about hard drive manufacturers. Just today... the 4th time I've
had a hard drive go bad. My first and second drives were Maxtors, my 3rd was
an IBM (oem), and my 4th, today, was a Maxtor. Today's however, came up with
the most damage... a wopping 6GB bad sectors. Luckily, it was in an unused
area of the drive, so I lost no info, but it has taken up a considerable
amount of my time, cause Windows scan disk didn't want to work... just kept
freezing up at around 95%. Norton Disk Doctor was freezing up too, but after
reformatting the drive from scratch, Norton was able to secure the bad
sectors.
> So... question... what sort of luck has everyone been having with hard
drives? Any streaks on drives going bad? What brands?
>
> Next question... anyone know how I can go back and see specific data on my
drive? It seems that after you do either Scan Disk or Disk Doctor, it tells
you at the end report that you have so-and-so sectors bad, but after the
report is gone, there's no way to pull up the info to see how much is bad
and how much is good? Any way to do it in Windows? Or, maybe another program
I can buy?
>
> ---Troth
Wow..don't have a huge great magnet sitting next to your PC do you? I've not
lost a hard drive in the 8 years I've been using/abusing PC's.
As far as accessing the data, was it FAT32 or NTFS? If it'sFAT32, you could
try KNOPPIX. It's a big download, but it's basically a flavour of Linux that
boots and runs from your CD ROM drive-that will give you access to anything
on your PC's hard drives if it can still be found.. I've found it VERY
useful
Andy
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