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My hard drive crashed but it is still partially readable. My PC freezes whenever Norton Disk Doctor scans the directory structure. Does anyone know any good DOS programs that can recover files from my hard drive, without freezing, and without copying over the bad sectors? As long as it's freeware, I'll try anything. Thanks
Are you certain it's a hard drive problem?
Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @8x210mhz
512mb PC3200
Ti4200/8X 128mb
WDC 60GB
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Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience
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I think the internal command 'copy' might do the job. It's certainly in your price range!
Scandisk at the DOS prompt might help, however I doubt it. Worth a try anyway.
After this amount of time is there really anything on the disk worth saving? Or is it just a collection of crappy old DOS games?
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Quite a history to this drive:
Possibly following up any one of the 4 previous posts may have led somewhere - I guess we're due for another in January(?)
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience
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Hard to be sure. The thing is, pretty much the same advice will likely be rendered, and when the OP fails to respond (yet keeps posting back sporadically)... is there any point?
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience
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Hello orangutang, I had a look through the links supplied by other members here. There is probably one thing you have not done yet, but should have done first. Before you run any diagnostics, you should verify the system memory.
Memtest86 which is "freeish"
Hopefully the memory has problems and with trial and error, (test each ram stick individually?) you can remove the faulty sdram stick from the system.
Once that is done, use powermax again to see how the drive tests.
After that is done, you may or may not find any problem with the drive.
If you did have faulty memory, there is a chance that some files will be corrupted, generally the ones you were working with a lot.
If your drive still tests faulty, your best chance of recovering files will be to use a second hard drive. It is not logical to recover files without a second hard drive, as at some point, you will need another hard drive. Install the Maxtor as a slave. Use copy to get files that are the most important and all your personal files.
Don't hesitate to ask any further questions. As far a data recovery programs in general, there is no magic program that will be excelent in every circumstance.
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