Digital BW, The Print

Dear Paul and others,

I just ran across this post and in the past I have "recovered" disks 
that stopped booting by running the full CHKDSK (it used to be called 
so) now it is called "Error Checking". In windows right click on the 
drive (presumably hooked up to an open drive port) and select 
properties\tools\"check now" and you will see a box like this:



Check both boxes and and click "start". The next time windows boots it 
will run "CHKDSK," on the selected drive, this may take quite a while 
depending on drive size.

Hope this helps and that I  am not butting in on this topic.

Cheers

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On 5/17/2013 5:37 PM, Paul Roark wrote:
>
> Hi Tony
>
> Tony Sleep <TonySleep@... 
> <mailto:TonySleep%40halftone.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> > What kind of crash Paul? If it still spins up, is not making unhealthy
> > noises such as bearing gring or click of death (heads cannot calibrate ,
> > and is detected by the BIOS, there is a very good chance of easy 
> recovery.
> >
>
> I suspect the disc is still usable. There were no weird noises. Most of
> the sectors are still readable according to checkdisc. Unfortunately, the
> unreadable ones include the boot sector. So, I have saved the disc in
> hopes that I'll be able to use it as a second/data disc in the box.
> Unfortunately, the Dell tech people do not seem to be up to the task. (In
> fact, the 70% drop in Dell profit this last quarter is not a surprise at
> all. If they had actually stocked their shelves with parts and paid the
> license fees to MS and others, the reported results would probably be much
> worse.)
>
> >
> > If the disk appears in the BIOS, but does not mount in the OS, the 
> problem
> > is nearly always a corrupted MBR and/or partition table. The drivers and
> > OS cannot recognise the corrupt sector 0 as a drive.
> >
>
> That goes a bit over my head, but when the "bad" disc was still in, the
> diagnostics registered 2 SATA devices, which I assume was the C:/ 
> drive and
> the CD/DVD drive. And, as I said, many if not most of the sectors were
> reported as readable. It appears the system is capable of 4 SATA devices.
>
> What I probably need is the knowledge of how to get the disc back in the
> box as a non-boot disc (I have a new C:/ drive that boots well), and I'll
> probably need to know how to "cure" or work around the issues
> that caused this.
>
> I might add that for months before the disc "crashed" (could not boot), it
> was attempting and failing to configure updates, presumably to Windows 7.
> The Dell tech people said this often precedes what they view as hard disc
> failures.
>
> >
> > In 90% of cases everything can be recovered without data loss. The disk
> > can be returned to service as there is almost always nothing wrong 
> with it
> > at a hardware level.
> >
>
> That would be nice, as my total restore from my Seagate backup did not
> restore the software, Photoshop included.
>
> > It was only corrupted in the first place by
> > software/OS/drivers and/or power loss.
> >
>
> There are always warnings not to unplug a computer during the update
> installations. I have wondered if a blip in the power at one of these
> times was behind it. I don't have one of those devices that keeps the
> power going at such times, and being in a rural area, the power grid is
> prone to some very brief outages.
>
> .
> >
> > Provided you can get driverless access to them, ...
> >
>
> Can you translate this for a non-techie?
>
> It sounds like I have a good shot at this if I can find a good roadmap.
>
> Thanks for the advice. It is generally consistent with lay assumptions.
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>
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>
> 

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