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 Posted: Wed, 9th Jan 2008 15:05 Post subject: Must...recover...stuff!! |
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Ok so my 500GB internal SATA took a shit on me. I can turn it on and get stuff on it but only for about 5-8 minutes before windows starts giving me delayed write errors. I used a few recover progams including some drive to drive copy from WD and they all work fine till windows gives me that error. I got an external mybook re-formatted to NTFS waiting to be eaten up by my internal.
So what are my methods available?
And a future thanks to Sensi cause allah knows he'll be the one to solve it.
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Jan 2008 15:35 Post subject: |
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Tried putting your internal drive into the ebook and copying off of it?
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Jan 2008 15:42 Post subject: |
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can you copy for a certain amount of time or up to a certain point on the drive?
Have you tried it in a different system to make sure it is really the drive and not bad ram or similar?
Can you disable the onboard cache of the drive via the WD-tools? And if so, does it help?
What do the WD-Tools say on the drive status? [havent used their tools, but other manufacturers have hardware level error detection in their hdd-tools usually]
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Jan 2008 15:53 Post subject: |
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| Lutzifer wrote: | can you copy for a certain amount of time or up to a certain point on the drive?
Have you tried it in a different system to make sure it is really the drive and not bad ram or similar?
Can you disable the onboard cache of the drive via the WD-tools? And if so, does it help?
What do the WD-Tools say on the drive status? [havent used their tools, but other manufacturers have hardware level error detection in their hdd-tools usually] |
- ya I can copy fine untill windows tries writing something then fucks up then the backup software stops working as well.
- Dunno how to disable the cache with or without the tools.
- Status is sometimes unavailable etc. I used their tools once to scan the drive but got some cable error and to reconnect cable. So I tried a new sata cable and new port but nothing. I know it's not my connections cause my Games HD is a SATA too and works on them all.
| swingman wrote: | | Tried putting your internal drive into the ebook and copying off of it? |
that would void my warranty. Good idea tho :\
[Edit] I started transfering files as soon as I turned my computer on and so far so good. *knocks on wood* |
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Jan 2008 16:01 Post subject: |
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if you can copy fine till windows fucks up, try to copy untill that point, reboot, start copying from that point on and see if it freezes immediately (sector unreadable, hardware issues, bad file tables?) or not (windows fuckup, hardware overheating, random error, wtfbbq)
you could also try to copy from a different operating system like a linux-live-cd (or a windows PE cd, like BartPE) and see if it s helping.
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Jan 2008 16:40 Post subject: |
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I think it finally got fed up with fucking with me, cause it's been xfering fine for the past 40 mins or so.
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Jan 2008 04:00 Post subject: |
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in my whole life i had one WD disk it was a 850mb , died after 2 years - they make crappy disks , the funny thing about it is that my Samsung 550mb still works after those 12 years
so Samsung 4live
Did you tried those Linux live boot CDs or Hiren's BootCD , maybe they will help you recover those files ?
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Jan 2008 04:29 Post subject: |
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eh I got my games back just in time cause the drive started saying it isn't formatted lol.
WD doesn't make crappy disks and never has. All companies have their disks that fail, shit happens. This WD lasted 1 year and I was tough on it so no big deal. I've got an old as hell 80gig EIDE and a used 80 gig off of ebay and it's still running strong for 2+ years now.
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Jan 2008 11:57 Post subject: |
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in my experience Seagate offers the best drives when it comes to a long and fulfilled life 
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2008 02:18 Post subject: Re: Must...recover...stuff!! |
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| gingerninjaaaaaa wrote: | | SpykeZ wrote: | Ok so my 500GB internal SATA took a shit on me. I can turn it on and get stuff on it but only for about 5-8 minutes before windows starts giving me delayed write errors. I used a few recover progams including some drive to drive copy from WD and they all work fine till windows gives me that error. I got an external mybook re-formatted to NTFS waiting to be eaten up by my internal.
So what are my methods available?
And a future thanks to Sensi cause allah knows he'll be the one to solve it. |
Allah says throw it in the bin  |
Allah says it's under warranty so WD gives me a new one. |
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2008 10:10 Post subject: |
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Did you update your drivers recently for your SATA? If so you might want to go back a version. I had a similar problem with some intel drivers, but when I went back all was well.
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2008 19:58 Post subject: |
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| morpheus69 wrote: | | Did you update your drivers recently for your SATA? If so you might want to go back a version. I had a similar problem with some intel drivers, but when I went back all was well. |
the firmware is for a RAID setups.
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This firmware resolves an issue where a WD1600YS, WD2500YS, WD4000YS, or WD5000YS hard drive is dropped from a RAID set without reporting errors after a period of normal usage. This utility is designed to upgrade the firmware of the following hard drives:
* WD1600YS
* WD2500YS
* WD4000YS
* WD5000YS
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And since I've already said if 17 times already that I got what I needed and im returning the drive, why not another time. |
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