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HD FAILURE: Data error (cyclic redundancy check) !!!

hey all, this weekend my hard drive seemed to die. It had A LOT of information on there and i need to get it back asap. What i did was i tried to load it onto another machine as a slave drive, and when i would go to the command prompt and cd to that drive i would get

Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

When you go to my computer and try to open up the drive, it wants to format it. It says that there is 100% free space on it, but there shouldn't be. how do i fix this? thanx all!!!!

engineroom

p.s. i'm running win2k

zephyr_hex (Megan)

if you are unable to retrieve the data when the drive is installed as slave, then you are in a bad situation. some drive failures make it impossible to retrieve data (unless you go to a data retrieval expert, and that is thousands of dollars).

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zephyr_hex (Megan)

if he is unable to access the drive when it is installed as slave, how will a program/application be able to do data recovery?

willcomp

Data recovery programs access the hard disk in RAW mode. They are usually at least partly successful if drive is recognized in BIOS.

Windows requires a drive with intact partitions and formatting to logically access it.

engineroom

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I'm running the runtime program now and it DOES see the drive. I see it reading off som of the content on the drive. So, hopefully everything works out. i'll keep you guys posted.

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