![[H]ard|Forum](/styles/hardforum/xenforo/logo_dark.png){kind=logo}
Problems with Hard Drive
- Thread starter nauxolo
- Start date
The service partition on a lot of the big name computers is a special partition that does not always play nice with most utilities. I forget what that type of partition it is called, but it really does play havoc with people when the normal recovery routine does not work.
I guess the good news for you is that the drive was prolly going bad anyway if the onboard recovery routine failed. You didn't make it any worse. Unfortunately, you prolly just need to break down and buy a new drive.
If you know who built the drive, then you can try running the diagnostics from the OEM. They boot from a CD so you don't need a good OS on board to run them. Boot it up and run the long or complete test. But then again, if it doesn't even detect it's presence, then you are SOL.
Don
I guess the good news for you is that the drive was prolly going bad anyway if the onboard recovery routine failed. You didn't make it any worse. Unfortunately, you prolly just need to break down and buy a new drive.
If you know who built the drive, then you can try running the diagnostics from the OEM. They boot from a CD so you don't need a good OS on board to run them. Boot it up and run the long or complete test. But then again, if it doesn't even detect it's presence, then you are SOL.
Don