help

[daf]

i came back home this evening to find my pc in a sorry state.
my main hard drive keeps giving me this error:


i have tried everything i can think of to make it work again [restarting windows, scandisk, checking the IDE cable & power cables, shouting at it, moving it from one IDE slot to the other] but all to no avail :(
i ran partition magic in the hope that it might be able to help... it told me this:


the disk in question had something in the region of 100GB of information on it which i really don't want to lose.
don't know if it makes any differnce or not, but i'm using is windows 98.
if anyone has any ideas as to how i can fix this problem, please let me know.

Comments

[panzerbjrn.livejournal.com]

That does look pretty bad.
It looks like it's probably a hardware fault, but you might want to try to install Windows 2000 or XP and see if they can read it.

The size of the harddrive makes me think that maybe you've run into the size limit built into earlier versions of Windows. If you try to install windows 2000 you can get a patch for it (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013). I believe Windows XP already has the ability to read large drives.

Good luck...

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

yeah... unfortunately, i don't think my processor's not really up to the demands of XP or 2000... it's only a p3 450 and struggles quite a lot with windows 98 :(

[mildseven.livejournal.com]

I have a crack team working on it right now.

well

[gommog.livejournal.com]

drop me an e-mail tomorrow just after 12 and i'll connect to your pc and take a looksee but from the look of things you've lost stuff. You coming to norwich on friday?

Re: well

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

er... i don't know your email address...
no, am not coming to norwich on friday.

D:\ is being feculent

[mildseven.livejournal.com]

This is what I've discovered.

Chances are 50/50 that the information is gone. Usually when a drive
appears unformatted, you can only use it by formatting - which results
in data loss anyway. My suggestion to you is to find a buddy's
computer who is running WinXP. When you boot the drive as a slave in
his/her computer, WinXP can detect it as a drive that has
malfunctioned and will request to run a checkdisk on it. If WinXP
runs a checkdisk or a repair on the hard drive, you should be able to
view all the data. (It will take just a few minutes)

Other than that, I would test it in a few others with more recent
Operating Systems to see which one can read your drive. If that
doesn't work...well....the unspeakable might have occurred....

Re: D:\ is being feculent

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

thank you very much james
i shall make it my aim to befriend someone with xp this week.

Re: D:\ is being feculent

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

i have xp, but would have fuck all idea what to do with all that computery ballcoks, seeing as all i do is use msn, media player and abc bittorrent.
therefore this is an entirely useless post. go me!

Re: D:\ is being feculent

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't say entirely useless...

Re: D:\ is being feculent

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

well ok, so its added 3 to your recieved comments list, therefore making you look more popular...

Re: D:\ is being feculent

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

and it made me add you to my friends list... thus returning the favour ;)

w00t

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

waeeeeey...!
do you approve of this pic more than the last one btw? :P

Re: w00t

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

i can't remember what the last one looked like well enough to make a decision...
post 'em and i'll tell u which one is best

gah

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

oh the effort!
old::

new::

aaah!

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

MY FACE IS HUGE AND ON THE INTERNET! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... *trails off and starts sobbing*

they're a bit small

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

can you make them bigger? ;)

i think the new one is the best.... but it still doesn't look that much like you. and what's with the funky lense flare? is that your camera that did it or did someone play around with them in the old potato shop?

oh youre just so funny

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

im so anti-photogenic... and i dont want photos that look like me anyway, then people would be repulsed :P
i have an obsession with lens flare cos in my lil brain they look like fairies...

you fuckin' knows it

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

i don't think people would be repulsed by a picture that looks liek you... i mean, it's not as if you look like these people:

it's called sarcasm hun

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

AAAH!
*cries*
although... woman1 just needs to get off the smack...bloke2 wouldnt ming if he took that rubberband off of his foyce... bloke3 has had a skin graft...er... thing4 just needs some lipo and a facelift... woman/thing5... i have no suggestions.

oh... :(

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

i think no. 4 is a woman

well

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

i wouldnt assume. i thought... 'someone' was a girl when i first saw his picture, but was proved wrong.
*coughs*

Re: well

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

who?

um...

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

cant reeeally say. might be slightly insulted.

now you're teasing me

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

oh pleeeease tell me

but i like teasing :P

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

well do you have msn/email? i cant post it here!

you're a bad girl.

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

yes i do... but why can't you post it here?

i am, and you (and everyone else) love it.

[smithshours.livejournal.com]

stop being awkward. just because. im going to bed now anyways, my alter-ego email addy is on my userinfo (then if its not someone i like i dont have to talk to em :p) so just add that and ill tell you tomorrow.

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

ok... have emailed you