hard drive problem

[Mad Cow]

okay so here we go, i was playin far cry installed on my secondary hdd and then i got a bosd? and then now i cant access the harddrive at all it says its corrupted or something. Another thing is that device manager says that its working fine so i really dont know whats going on. or if i burned it out. any help would be appreciated.

its a 74gb raptor if it helps + a 120 mm fan cooling both they stay really cool so i dont know what the problem is.

i would also like to know if data is recoverable cuz i had alot of games saves and music on there and would be nice to get it back if possible.

edit * games are in a way still installed though like in add/remove programs and when i insert a disk in in gives me an option to play it but nothing will come up

 

[newmodder]

never do that.

you should always have your games and software installed the same h-disk as the operating system, never on a secondary harddrive:shadedshu

 

[newmodder]

never do that.

you should always have your games and software installed the same h-disk as the operating system, never on a secondary harddrive:shadedshu .try your harddrive on another pc if you have one around, turn on the pc and see if you can feel it spinning

 

[Deleted member 3]

you should always have your games and software installed the same h-disk as the operating system, never on a secondary harddrive:shadedshu .try your harddrive on another pc if you have one around, turn on the pc and see if you can feel it spinning

Why? Don't see how it makes any difference, besides that your swapfile is most likely on the same disk as the OS and when needed during loading the disk has to read and write at the same time slowing it down.

 

[Mad Cow]

does anyone actually know whats wrong? i cant uninstall anything that was in the drive which is really weird. is the hd broken or something

 

[Deleted member 3]

Getdataback might help you recovering. If you can boot with it of course. As for checking the disk, try a tool like DFT on it.

 

[Poisonsnak]

I agree with Dan, I have BF2 on 1 drive and WinXP on the other and have had no problems whatsoever.

What is telling you the drive is corrupted? If you go to My computer (right click on it, go to Manage), then click Disk Management (under Storage) on the left does it say the partition is healthy?

 

[Mad Cow]

when i try to open it to see the files in it it says its corrupted and yea in disk management it says its healthy. i was wondering where i could get the programs? Getdataback and dft thx

 

[newmodder]

have you tried to defrag or do a disk check from windows or go into safe mode and try it there?you never know it might work

 

[Mad Cow]

well most of the disk tools wont let me defrag/check it/ clean it up ect. and how do you force a safemode boot up. if its just kind of a pain because windows read that i still have the games installed when most of the data is gone now i believe

 

[Kougar]

Sounds like the drive had a head crash or something broke. It's still being detected by the system but it is unable to read/write anything...

Are you actually able to read or write anything off the drive? I'd back up what you can, and run SpinRite http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm It'll attempt to fix and recover as much as possible, but it sounds like the drive has had it. (SpinRite is not free)

And I know of no reason NOT to have XP on it's own drive, especially for performance reasons.

Madcow, google the motherboard/computer maker of your system and throw in "safe boot" to figure out which key safe boots your system at startup.