OT: Hard Drive Failure

GridIronGhost · Post by **GridIronGhost** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:33 am

I have a computer that has both XP and Win98, I also have a seperate hard drive that has been partitoned into 2 drives as a slave. The drive is fine in the second partition, but the first one is causing lock ups. I'm able to copy some of the data, but when trying to copy other parts it causes a system freeze. Win Xp will not boot because it trys to read the hard disk then it crashes. I can see all the files in explorer, I just can't transfer them or try to read them. Is my stuff lost or is there something I can do?

EDiddy · Post by **EDiddy** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:49 am

Might be FAT32 problem.

Can you copy First part to your second part, then copy 2nd part to the xP drive?

MAybe...
Install Win98 on second drive, flip xp to slave, boot to FAT32 win 98 drive copy 98 data to xp slave, flip XP back to master. and there you go

GridIronGhost · Post by **GridIronGhost** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:24 am

I can't copy anything from the bad partion on the drive. My system locks up and I have to power off to reboot.

vader29 · Post by **vader29** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:31 pm

Try running scandisk with Windows 98 on your bad hard drive, I had a similar problem earlier this year with running a dual boot of Windows XP and ME where XP would not boot and it showed no files on the hard drive in which it was installed, I ran scandisk with Windows ME on the hard drive to which XP was installed and everything came back.

MizzouRah · Post by **MizzouRah** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:25 pm

Yep, chkdsk /r works wonders.

GridIronGhost · Post by **GridIronGhost** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:33 pm

vader29 wrote:Try running scandisk with Windows 98 on your bad hard drive, I had a similar problem earlier this year with running a dual boot of Windows XP and ME where XP would not boot and it showed no files on the hard drive in which it was installed, I ran scandisk with Windows ME on the hard drive to which XP was installed and everything came back.

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Yeah, I tried that and the system locks up as soon as it tries to read the disk. Some good news, I kept messing with trying to copy from the disk, it would copy large and small chuncks of data before locking up. So 4 hours and hundreds of reboots later, I got the important stuff off the disk. Thanks!