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Mounting bad sectors, that are ok..

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Name: alebowgm
Date: June 8, 2004 at 16:26:54 Pacific
OS: XP Pro Build 2600 SP 1
CPU/Ram: 1024 MB DDR
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Hey,

So my entire hard drive basically went corrupt and after some heavy investigating (including having to deal with a BSOD Display Adapter issue), but I have been able to get my computer back to normal except for this one hard drive. My 80 GB Primary Slave drive (F:), has Bad Sectors acording to the Event Viewer that is available in XP under Administraters Options. Using EasyRecovery Professional 6.03, I was able to get the program to view the NTFS Partion that was orignally setup on the drive and I have been sucessfully able to get files off of the drive.

My question though is while I can go and recover most of the files, from what it appears and put it on a new hard drive, is there any way I can re-mount this bad hard drive in XP? I would still like to use it to screw around with.

At the same time, I would like to be able to pull the current files off of their without using Easy Recovery so until I get the new hard drive I can still use this bad one.

Any ideas on how to do it?



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Name: XpUser
Date: June 8, 2004 at 18:01:35 Pacific
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First I suggest you take a look at this

Beginners Guides: Diagnosing Bad Hard Drives
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1583%20&page=3

This article includes info about how you can do chkdsk from Windows. Read it out thoroughly before trying it.

If no joy, you could try EasyRecovery. If still no joy, a factory low-level format may be warranted.

Good luck.


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