HDD regenerator 2011 stops working.
I am using HDD regenerator to repair my hard drive it says it has regenerated several sectors but every time it stops saying HD not ready restart and changed Sata to compatible. I have done that several times but it stops in the same place.
Any ideas will be helpful
Any ideas will be helpful
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Thanks for responding. There were a lot of sectors regenerated before it kept hanging. This is my 2nd Toshiba with a hard drive problem. ( another question in the que. ) what do you think the next move can be?
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You have helped me greatly in the past so it is what it is. That's the answer. So I buy a new drive and reload?
The disk has PROVEN to you that it is more than willing to destroy your data. Absolutely replace it & reload. Then once you are booted to the replacement disk, and you have restored what you can, let HDD regen run for as long as it takes and then maybe you'll get some more files.
I've seen such programs run for well over a week. You are no worse off letting it do that, as long as you don't try to reload the O/S on top of that disk.
WRite off that drive. It can no longer be trusted. Personally, I would buy TWO drives and set up host-based (software) mirroring. Then bad blocks won't result in data loss, and you will get a nice performance boost in the process. -- assuming this is a desktop system and not a laptop that only supports one internal HDD
I've seen such programs run for well over a week. You are no worse off letting it do that, as long as you don't try to reload the O/S on top of that disk.
WRite off that drive. It can no longer be trusted. Personally, I would buy TWO drives and set up host-based (software) mirroring. Then bad blocks won't result in data loss, and you will get a nice performance boost in the process. -- assuming this is a desktop system and not a laptop that only supports one internal HDD
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It is a laptop. I wasn't able to get any info off the drive before it went bad. I can't get past the windows screen and when I could the system recovery wouldn't work. I have paragon running on the other Toshiba laptop that has a drive problem also. Not talking bad about Toshiba..yet.
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all goods points, thank you. (I need to asses points and start a new set of questions that are related) You all have been very helpful. I have been a member for several years. I have asked some pretty infantile questions BUT I have been able to do some pretty astonishing things just by the direction of this forum.
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Art
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Art
tx for the feedback, Art
You COULD try Spinrite on the same drive -- they use slightly different algorithms, so there's a chance Spinrite will work where HDR won't ... but it's not very likely that's the case.