Hard Drive Deintialized
 

Two months ago, my hard drive on my windows 98se computer deintialized
following after when the pc power on/off button was pressed twice. I tried
using the recovery disks that came with the computer, but the only option is
to do a format, which I do not want as I wish to keep all the files and data
that I created on my computer saved on the hard drive. I was wondering if
there was a way to restart my hard drive and repair the corrupted files on it
without losing the data on the hard drive. If this means that I need to buy a
Windows 98se cd-rom to perform repair, I am willing to do that.

Did the hard drive just not start up?

How big is your hard drive? Do you remember, or can you repeat, the
error? Details of such errors can go a long way towards diagnosing them.

How big is your hard drive, and do you recall how much free space it
has?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"intoeverything90" wrote in
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Two months ago, my hard drive on my windows 98se computer deintialized
following after when the pc power on/off button was pressed twice. I
tried
using the recovery disks that came with the computer, but the only
option is
to do a format, which I do not want as I wish to keep all the files
and data
that I created on my computer saved on the hard drive. I was wondering
if
there was a way to restart my hard drive and repair the corrupted
files on it
without losing the data on the hard drive. If this means that I need
to buy a
Windows 98se cd-rom to perform repair, I am willing to do that.

"intoeverything90" wrote in
message ...

Two months ago, my hard drive on my windows 98se computer deintialized
following after when the pc power on/off button was pressed twice. I tried
using the recovery disks that came with the computer, but the only option
is
to do a format, which I do not want as I wish to keep all the files and
data
that I created on my computer saved on the hard drive. I was wondering if
there was a way to restart my hard drive and repair the corrupted files on
it
without losing the data on the hard drive. If this means that I need to
buy a
Windows 98se cd-rom to perform repair, I am willing to do that.

After this sort of failure, any operation on a single
hard drive may do more harm than good. The safest
course is to instal a new hard drive as C:, instal
Win98SE to the new C:, add the old drive (which
becomes D:) and then copy over essential data
and config. files. You may also get special
diagnostics from the drive manufacturer that
may tell you if the drive can be repaired.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Please repost with more information, including the error messages you
receive when trying to access the drive.

Ben

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using the recovery disks that came with the computer, but the only =
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to do a format, which I do not want as I wish to keep all the files =
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that I created on my computer saved on the hard drive. I was wondering =
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without losing the data on the hard drive. If this means that I need =
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Windows 98se cd-rom to perform repair, I am willing to do that.