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my HD asplode....

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MrUnexpected

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i have a major problem, and i would appreciate any help.

i built up a new rig a couple of months ago. i put in a WD raptor sata drive in there. a small one, 36 gigs. i also put in my old 60 gig maxtor. the idea was wait until some really good deals on a big, probably slow, drive. i basicly have all progs and windows installed on the raptor, and all my 'stuff' on the 2 partitioned maxtor.

now the problem: my maxtor is dying. or, at least i think it is. it takes forever to navigate through one of the partitions, and it wont read or caopy anything over about .5 mb. this is no good. i have all my music, my images, and and so on all on there. can i rescue this stuff?

please help.
 
Could be a number of things. Possibly just a logical problem that could be sorted out (AFTER you copy off everything you can) with a reformat. Or, worse, it could be a sign of trouble on the area of the drive where much of the slow partition is located - in that case it isn't going to get any better and will continue to degrade. Tough call.
 
yea, the thing is i CANT copy hardly anything off of it. if i try it gives me a "the request could not be performed becuase of an i/o error." if i try with any file more than 500kb.
 
Well i'd try one of two things.

Pull the drive and pop it into another machine and see if you are successful in reading/copying the files off of the affected partition.

Or load up Knopix live CD linux and see if you can read the contents and maybe burn them onto a cd (as far as I know Knopix is only capable of reading NTFS permissions but if you had another drive with Fat32 you could conceivably copy to that).

It doesn't sound too good though. I'd get whatever you can and run the Maxtor drive diagnostic on it and that might give you an idea of whether the drive is failing or not.

I wish to you the best of luck in getting your data back but unfortunately this is something that will ALWAYS happen if you don't backup you data...
 
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