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Topic: Static...OUCH !!!!!! |
Bill Ford
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Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 24 Jan 2011 8:01 am |
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Be extremely careful around your computer if you are bothered by static discharge. My reason for posting this,I fried my desktop when I plugged a flash drive,serious arc from me to computer,it messed up the OS, and would not boot...I am in process of serious grounding for electrical service, also am installing a groundpad,and wrist strap at my workstaton. Cold dry climate along with carpet in this room make for big problems.I have been told that spraying carpet with fabric softener will help.
Wiz, Is there a way to correct this without reformat? The drive apparently has most/some of my info still accessible(reading through a dock on another computer) Plans are to install a new HD with OS, and installing damaged HD as secondary drive and try to retrieve info then reformat it.
As always, your advise is appreciated..Bill
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 24 Jan 2011 8:49 am
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Bill;
Try slaving the damaged drive to another PC running the same OS, or to the same PC after you reinstall the OS and update it. Then run Chkdsk on it, fixing bad file tables and bad sectors.
You can get to Chkdsk in two ways:
- My Computer > Right-click on C drive > select "Properties" > "Tools" > "Error-Checking" > "Check Now" (check both option boxes and proceed)
- My Computer > C drive > Windows > System32 > Chkdsk.exe (might need to right-click and Run As [administrator])
Chances are 50% or better that Chkdsk will fix the problems with the old hard drive. If not, all data on it is lost (see last paragraph below).
How to run Chkdsk without new OS (XP)
If the OS is Win XP AND you have the licensed XP CD AND it contains the same service pack as is installed on the PC, proceed as follows.
- Insert the XP CD, containing the same Service Pack as is installed on the bad drive (SP 3 is current)
- If your BIOS is already set to boot from a bootable CD first, restart and boot from the CD.
- If the BIOS tries booting from the hard drive, restart and tap repeatedly on the Del key, or whatever key the first info screen says to hit to enter "Setup." Once you are inside the BIOS Setup, find a tab labeled "Boot" or similar and use the arrow keys to go to it and open it for editing. The bottom section will define which keys do what tasks. Find the Boot Order and arrow down to it. Press Enter to open it to re-order the boot sequence, so the CD drive is before the hard drive. Save by using the key designated to Save Changes (F key, maybe F10). Reboot and the CD should start up.
- When the CD loads, use arrow keys to select Setup and press enter key).
- Under Setup select Repair Using Recovery Console and press Enter
- When Recovery Console stops loading it halts at a Command Prompt, asking you to select the Windows Installation to log onto. Press the #1 key then press Enter
- If your PC has an Administrator password, type it in at the Password prompt, then press Enter
- Now, type this command: CHKDSK /R
- Press Enter and go do something else for a while.
- When Chkdsk finishes it reports that and "found errors on this drive." Since you ran it with the /R option it also checked for bad sectors. If bad sectors were found, Chkdsk tries to read the data from them, move it to unused good sectors, recovering the data, then marks the bad sectors as off-limits.
Quite often, running Chkdsk /r on a hard drive with scattered files will fix it. If it doesn't fix the drive, consider it to be a paper weight. If the data on the drive is valuable, consider paying a professional data recovery company to extract it directly from the platters and transfer it to a new hard drive. Prices for these services vary, from around $500 up to $1500 or more.
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 24 Jan 2011 10:24 am
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Wiz, Sorry I didn't post enough info...Vista,home premium..It is licensed. I already have a new HD to install. I think I will slave it, and get all info possible. You stated that, if Chkdsk fails, it is a paperweight. If chkdsk fails, can it still be formated, and used? If not I will retrieve the info and then format.
Thanks..Bill
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 24 Jan 2011 6:51 pm
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If Chkdsk can repair the file system errors and deal with any bad sectors, the drive is savable and usable. If chkdsk cannot fix it, it probably can't be formatted either. However, I think you should try to format it if the data can't be retrieved at all. There is nothing left to lose.
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