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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. |
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Did the hard drive just not start up?
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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 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. |
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"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) |
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Please repost with more information, including the error messages you
receive when trying to access the drive. Ben "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=20 using the recovery disks that came with the computer, but the only = option is=20 to do a format, which I do not want as I wish to keep all the files = and data=20 that I created on my computer saved on the hard drive. I was wondering = if=20 there was a way to restart my hard drive and repair the corrupted = files on it=20 without losing the data on the hard drive. If this means that I need = to buy a=20 Windows 98se cd-rom to perform repair, I am willing to do that. |
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