[x]
Posted via EE Mobile

Search, ask, and monitor your questions on the go with EE Mobile. Visit Experts Exchange from your mobile device and never be out of touch again.
Question
[x]
Attachment Details
[x]
The Solution Rating System

With so many solutions, how can you tell which solutions are most likely to help you and which ones are not? To provide you with a tool to use, we rate our solutions based on various elements that most accurately determine if a solution is a quality solution. To explain what factors affect the solution rating, here are the elements we take into consideration when formulating our solution rating.

  • The Grade of the Solution
  • The Zone Rank of the Expert Providing the Solution
  • The Number of Author and Expert Comments
  • The Number of Experts Contributing
  • The Feedback of the Community

Your Input Matters
Because of the way the system is set up, the most important variable in this equation is you. As a member of Experts Exchange, you are able to cast your vote on the quality of the solutions in regard to how complete, accurate, helpful and easy to understand each solution is. When you provide your feedback, each rating is adjusted accordingly. So, if you see a solution that has a poor rating that you think is a good solution, let us know by rating it. As you do, the rating will be adjusted and will become more accurate for other members of our site.

If you have any suggestions that you would like to make for our rating system, please ask a question in the Suggestions Zone of Community Support.

Thank you!
7.4

HardDrive Failure

Asked by devaid in Miscellaneous Hardware

Tags: chkdsk, drive, errors

Hi Experts,

I know this question has been asked many times before, but I tired all the suggestions with so far no joy.

Heres my story-

Having filled both my 40 and 30 gig drives, I decided it was time to invest in a much larger disk - 160GB in the end.

I set the old boot drive to the secondary IDE channel and added the new drive on primary IDE channel as master.

Installed all the gibbons and was really happy with the fact that I didn't lose any data and could still access the old drive.

After a week I removed all the stuff from the 40 & 30 onto the new drive and was preparing to back up all my stuff on to DVD. Unfortunately I never got around doing it this week and guessing what - the new drive failed.

Don’t know if this is relevant, but it all happened after I downloaded a backup file from my server - .zip 2.4Gb. I then extracted the zip which contained a single 5.5Gb .bkp file. After the extraction completed, windows started moaning that system files were corrupt - I tried accessing the drive in my computer, but it said the drive wasn't formatted - Tried saving all my open files etc which all failed.

I then rebooted - still detects the drive in the BIOS, but wont boot.

I then put the drive in another PC to see if I could access any data. The result was drive not formatted.

Checked the Drive in disk management - partition exists but was being seen as *unix.

Booted the XP cd and chkdsk - failed more and one unrecoverable error.
FIXBoot worked, but now when doing DIR all the directories, files are in jargon
chkdsk than successfully ran and fixed some errors, but the drive is in the same state.

Any ideas would be really, really welcomed!

Thanks for reading
[+][-]06/19/04 08:50 AM, ID: 11351394Author Comment

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]06/19/04 10:04 AM, ID: 11351683Expert Comment

At Experts Exchange, members can ask their questions to thousands of technology professionals, also known as Experts. Experts compete and collaborate to answer those questions by leaving comments like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Expert Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]06/19/04 10:05 AM, ID: 11351687Expert Comment

At Experts Exchange, members can ask their questions to thousands of technology professionals, also known as Experts. Experts compete and collaborate to answer those questions by leaving comments like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Expert Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]06/19/04 10:42 AM, ID: 11351854Author Comment

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]06/19/04 10:48 AM, ID: 11351886Expert Comment

At Experts Exchange, members can ask their questions to thousands of technology professionals, also known as Experts. Experts compete and collaborate to answer those questions by leaving comments like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Expert Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]06/19/04 11:32 AM, ID: 11352062Expert Comment

At Experts Exchange, members can ask their questions to thousands of technology professionals, also known as Experts. Experts compete and collaborate to answer those questions by leaving comments like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Expert Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]06/19/04 11:48 AM, ID: 11352116Accepted Solution

View this solution now by starting your 30-day free trial. Setting up your free trial is quick, easy, and secure. We will return you to this solution, unlocked, when you're done.

About this solution

Zone: Miscellaneous Hardware
Tags: chkdsk, drive, errors
Sign Up Now!
Solution Provided By: nixadm
Participating Experts: 4
Solution Grade: A
 
[+][-]06/19/04 12:15 PM, ID: 11352213Author Comment

Often, when Experts are collaborating with members who have asked questions, they will request additional information about the problem. Askers respond with an author comment like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Author Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]06/19/04 01:17 PM, ID: 11352371Expert Comment

At Experts Exchange, members can ask their questions to thousands of technology professionals, also known as Experts. Experts compete and collaborate to answer those questions by leaving comments like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Expert Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
[+][-]06/19/04 03:30 PM, ID: 11352697Expert Comment

At Experts Exchange, members can ask their questions to thousands of technology professionals, also known as Experts. Experts compete and collaborate to answer those questions by leaving comments like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Expert Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
 
Loading Advertisement...
20091111-EE-VQP-89