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- Preventative maintenance for PCs: Four favorite utilities
- Here in Chicago, it's time to start thinking about getting the car winterized. Since driving in our winter snows can sometimes be pretty hairy, that auto check-up isn't really optional. Working at the help desk can be a little different, though. We can get so busy dealing with the emergencies...
- Tags: Disk, PC, Aida32, SpinRite, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, William Jones
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- External Hard Drive problem!
- Hi everyone. I will try to explain this the best I can.I have a 250gig External Hard drive, USB 2.0, that is a few years old. I never had any problems with this drive at all until recently. A few weeks ago, I brought the external to...
- Tags: Corporate governance, vincefesta@..., enclosure, SpinRite, tower, CD, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-06-17
- Creating a boot disk
- I am trying to configure SpinRite to see my external SCSI drive. I am told to create a boot disk with the drivers in it. When I boot XP I have no problem seeing this device. But when I create a bootdisk I can not see it.The device properties are:-SCSI...
- Tags: boot disk, boot-disk, gblossom@..., SCSI, SCSI Drive, spinrite, windows, windows xp
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- revive the harddrive
- i have a harddrive whose partition table is corruptedNow a need a software or mechanism or procedure which can help me repair the partition table/master boot record and revive the harddrive so that it can boot againOne option is Spirite:http://grc.com/spinrite.htmIt's not free-ware, but is pretty good.Depending on the age of...
- Tags: edwin.elifuraha@..., hard drive, SpinRite, windows
- Q&A 2005-10-11
- Spinrite 6.
- I just wanted to know if people used this software to repair hard drives and what their experiences were good, bad etc.Haven't used 6 but as for 5...It's a damned live saver. I used to use 5 on a regular basis to recover seemingly bad sectors on the old Fat...
- Tags: Spinrite 6
- Discussion threads 2005-07-25
- Bring Hdd Back Alive
- is there any software can bring back my HDD to life ?My HDD totally cannot detect.. I need my Datayou can transfer your data 2 another HD using a big magnetThere are companies that can do that for you. Google for "Data recovery hard disk" and you should get a...
- Tags: hard drive, kokwee_1867@..., POSTER
- Q&A 2004-11-10
Additional Resources
- SPINRITE 6
- Hi I have just joined and i just want to tell everyone about Spinrite 6 a brilliant data recovery program it beats all the others hands down, i have had three dead computers so far and used this program with great success on all three with full data recovery.Best wishes...
- Tags: Storage management, bommabaz@..., Spinrite 6
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- Spin Rite
- Anyone can state out the advantage and disadvantage of Spinrite 5 software ?I wan recover my data on Hddm how am i going to to ?http://www.grc.com/sr/testimonials.htmCheck this link out it will give you all the info you need. None of if are...
- Tags: Storage management
- Q&A 2004-12-03
- Disk Boot Failure...Twice
- I had my hard drive for about maybe 5-7 years. Just last week it had the boot disk failure. I fixed it with windows xp disc and it worked smoothly. But just yesterday night, the same thing happened. Just before this happened, The computer was freezing every 5-10 seconds, so...
- Tags: mountainduy@..., hard drive, disk
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Windows Checkdisk utility
- Are there any dos based hard drive utilities preferably free that work better than checkdisk? I have one hard drive I'm trying to back up but can't ghost it up to our server without running checkdisk. I ran checkdisk but the hard drive is still having problems when...
- Tags: bosston, hard drive, Microsoft Windows, windows
- Q&A 2005-07-15
- Acrobat Pro 8.0 possibly 7.0
- I had a situation that the user profile was corrupt. WXP pro SP2, ran spinrite and the pc booted. The user profile was missing some info. I copied from Docs and settings to the user but Adobe PDF Printer is missing. how can I reinstall the PDF Printer?re: adobe PDF...
- Tags: Casemaker, Adobe PDF, user profile, Adobe Acrobat
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Dell 8200 lost HD
- I have a Dell 8200 running XP pro. Over past week it had intermittent access/failures to find the hard drive at boot up. Seems that if it sits, like over night, off, it sees it in the morning for a short time, then not (get the press F1...
- Tags: BIOS, tedjeo@..., hard drive, Dell 8200, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-27
- Rescuing from a physically damaged HD?
- My relatives have Vista Premium installed, but now it won't load due to most definitely a physical error with a small part of the hard drive.Booting would start normally but won't go beyond a certain point. The drive would make a noise and Windows would try running something to recover,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Burg1, Microsoft Windows Vista, bad sector, Partition Magic
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- How to restore MBR
- After installing Service Pack 4 for Win 2K, i could not access my secondary hard drive even though the system has detected it. As soon as i click the secondary hard drive icon in 'my computer' a message saying the hard drive is not formatted and asked me if...
- Tags: eddiek, hard drive, MBR, Recovery Console, software, windows
- Q&A 2005-01-16
- Anyone know a good data recovery tool?
- Hi, I have a user whose laptop experienced some difficulties after attempting to merge 2 partitions (large C:, small E:) - the merge process failed halfway through, and now the partition with the good data (small E:) is in a dirty state and can't be read. I've tried booting...
- Tags: Storage management, OPEN SOURCE, smr19, data recovery, E, tool
- Discussion threads 2007-05-04
- Data recovery software
- Hello, can anyone recommend reasonably priced data recovery software. I want to be able to recover data from both FAT and NTFS file systems. I have found many softwares, but am having a hard time deciding which one to choose. Also, is is preferable a OS independant software, booting from...
- Tags: Borg7of9, data recovery, hardware, software, tool
- Q&A 2005-03-18
- inaccessible HD
- hello again and thankyou for the reply.ok now i checked under device manager and says the device is working fine,i also looked under event viewer/log and listed there is alot of red x (next to it >error )..and the log time is about the same time my HD became inaccessible.i...
- Tags: hard drive
- Q&A 2005-02-03
- How do I trouble shoot a failed RAID?
- I had a failed RAID I got it fixed by a Tech. I want to know how to work out which hard drive has failed? I'm running two 120GB SATA hard drive in a RAID. What tools I would need and how to diagnose it. I can't find any...
- Tags: disk, hard drive, hardware, manufacturer, RAID, rich1974@..., tool
- Discussion threads 2007-01-10
- External HD failure. Data recovery?
- I have a 4 month old, 250 GB external USB hard drive that suddenly started clicking. It was totally fine before. I can still access the drive, but it's very slow and several directories are missing or empty. A disc reading error message pops up if I try to copy...
- Tags: data recovery, DVD, hardware, tofuness@...
- Q&A 2005-04-23
- Software suggestions accepted here... PLEASE!
- Hi all you fellow techies. I'm looking for suggestions and comments regarding hard drive recovery software. I'm trying to decide which porgram to go with so and experience you might have both good and bad would be greatly appriciated! Go cheap? go expensive? is it worth the investment?!? Let me...
- Tags: Backups, Storage management, software, backup, data recovery
- Discussion threads 2005-06-22
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