Judaeus Apella
09-01-2005, 04:15 PM
I have this hard drive I want to get all my stuff off, which used to be in my old system a few years back, mostly artwork I did in college, documents, mp3's, the usual, wedding pictures, the usual. The problem is that when I try to transfer or open certain files, the OS crashes. I get this error giving me this stuff about if I have any new hardware, to remove it and disable memory cache, blah blah blah. I took a picture of it if you guys need the numbers/code. I have XP Pro SP2, and when it tries to scan for bad sectors, it can't find any! Then after the scan, the OS doesn't load, instead it crashes again, then it loads the next time, or crashes again until it either scans it and doesn't find anything or finally loads properly. I tried scanning the disk using windows error checking software, but when I tried that, the OS crashed with the same result. I also tried this software called Flobo HDDBadSectorRepair, but that just crashes the OS too! The hard drive does not make any unusual noises, and DOES work. I've been getting files off it all day yesterday and today. I just can't go into certain folders.
Does anyone know how to restore this hard drive? I'm not sure if this is important or not, but it was formatted by Win98 SE which is what my system last year was, and was browsed with another computer recently that had XP (not pro), and sometimes I get errors saying I can't transfer or delete a folder because of a problem with a thumb file... which is a hidden file that I think is an artifact from the other XP machine. I don't remember this many problems with this hard disk when I tried to pull some stuff off of it on the other XP machine. I was thinking, is there a setting that’s shutting down the OS that I can uncheck, that will not damage my machine or software?
Is there some kind of software you guys can recommend, or something hardware related? I was thinking that maybe if I made it external, the OS might not crash since its not directly attached to the motherboard. Would that work? And no, I’m not paying hundreds of dollars to get any of this stuff back. It's not worth it, but it is worth it to try and do it for under $50. If there's any freeware you guys can highly recommend, I'd really appreciate it!
The small partition I'm trying to recover is about 3 megs, and is a FAT partition. The large one is not detected, except by that program I tried and is NTFS. I was thinking that maybe some stuff on the FAT partition may be linked in some way to the NTFS partition, and when XP tries to reference to it, it crashes? I don't know, I'm guessing long shots cause most of my knowledge is on other components and cooling. *shrugs* I haven't had that much experience with hd's
Does anyone know how to restore this hard drive? I'm not sure if this is important or not, but it was formatted by Win98 SE which is what my system last year was, and was browsed with another computer recently that had XP (not pro), and sometimes I get errors saying I can't transfer or delete a folder because of a problem with a thumb file... which is a hidden file that I think is an artifact from the other XP machine. I don't remember this many problems with this hard disk when I tried to pull some stuff off of it on the other XP machine. I was thinking, is there a setting that’s shutting down the OS that I can uncheck, that will not damage my machine or software?
Is there some kind of software you guys can recommend, or something hardware related? I was thinking that maybe if I made it external, the OS might not crash since its not directly attached to the motherboard. Would that work? And no, I’m not paying hundreds of dollars to get any of this stuff back. It's not worth it, but it is worth it to try and do it for under $50. If there's any freeware you guys can highly recommend, I'd really appreciate it!
The small partition I'm trying to recover is about 3 megs, and is a FAT partition. The large one is not detected, except by that program I tried and is NTFS. I was thinking that maybe some stuff on the FAT partition may be linked in some way to the NTFS partition, and when XP tries to reference to it, it crashes? I don't know, I'm guessing long shots cause most of my knowledge is on other components and cooling. *shrugs* I haven't had that much experience with hd's