"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.

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)