Hard Drive has gone to RAW

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Manarius · #1 Post by **Manarius** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:17 pm

One of the partitions on my desktop's harddrive went to RAW after a power outage. I do believe the boot sectors are messed up. I have yet to find something FREE that can fix this. Any ideas?

#2 Post by **carbon_unit** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:14 pm

Google for "testdisk"

Manarius · #3 Post by **Manarius** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:54 pm

That won't convert the filesystem back to NTFS though - it'll just recover the data - not really what I'm looking for. Or, I haven't figured it out yet.

#4 Post by **carbon_unit** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:38 am

It should return the partitions to their previous state.

Manarius · #5 Post by **Manarius** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:33 pm

Running chkdsk with the /f parameter seems to have fixed the problem.

I put the HD back in the desktop and the PC boots right up..but the HD's shut off after 5 minutes

#6 Post by **carbon_unit** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:01 pm

Sounds like a failing drive. You better get you important info backed up right now.

DarkMark · #7 Post by **DarkMark** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:28 pm

Manarius wrote:I put the HD back in the desktop and the PC boots right up..but the HD's shut off after 5 minutes

carbon_unit wrote:Sounds like a failing drive.

I agree.

Had the exactly the same problem once with a desktop drive.

The only thing that worked in the end was linux-knoppix and I lost 2/3 of all my data. [/quote]

Manarius · #8 Post by **Manarius** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:24 pm

carbon_unit wrote:Sounds like a failing drive. You better get you important info backed up right now.

The only problem is that it only shuts off when trying to load into windows. I'm running a windows reinstall and it hasn't shut off yet (albeit, the computer has restarted like 10 million times). I smell a format coming soon.

DarkMark · #9 Post by **DarkMark** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:30 pm

Have you maybe got a faulty IDE-Connector cable?

I had one the other day on a dvd drive, installing Windows was no problem, but it hung up when trying to acces it or in a different computer didn't even fully load Windows.

#10 Post by **carbon_unit** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:52 pm

There is no cable on a thinkpad. The hard drive connector pins go into a connector on the motherboard.

Manarius · #11 Post by **Manarius** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:23 pm

carbon_unit wrote:There is no cable on a thinkpad. The hard drive connector pins go into a connector on the motherboard.

Well, this is a desktop and all.

That's an interesting conclusion. That cable is brand new, but inspection could be warranted.

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