On a windows 98 machine with bad sectors after running scandisk. Do I need to plan for the end? Options?
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Hi, you will want to install a new hard drive. You can leave the old one in. You will have to move the jumper on the old one and set it to "slave" Put your new drive where the old one was. Put the jumper on the new drive where the jumper was on the old drive initially. This will make the new drive "master" It is probably like this by default.\n\nYou can now throw away the one that is about to break completely.\n\nNow you will install windows fresh on your new drive. Once in windows, you have an extra drive(old one). You can now move any information you need from the old drive to the new drive without having to boot to it.\n\nhope that helps....if you need more assistance, edit your post or feel free to shoot me an email. It's not very complicated to do this.  No need to stress!
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Well the drive may be bad. Know that.\n\nYou can use a few tools to boot and scan disks and even reformat them.\n\nStart with BartPE... it is a windows environment loaded from CD.\n\nFrom there you can launch all sorts of drive utilities.\n\nStart with a scan, then reformat, then buy a new drive...
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Yes, but if you've already written over the sectors where the data was stored, it's most likely beyond doing it yourself. STOP using the drive immediately and you may still be able to recover some data. There is a free data recovery program called Zero Assumption Recovery that you can try. Another program called Getdataback For NTFS ($100) is a better option than a freeware program.
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If you do delete them, use a Data Recovery Software (it works if the sectors weren't zeroed or other)
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Scandisk shouldnt be on your system. If you ran chkdsk i hope you ran it by the following:\nAt a 'command prompt' type; chkdsk /? said will give you the\ncommand-line parameters for 'chkdsk'.\nOr (from Windows) go to the 'properties' sheet for the drive (right-click\ndrive and click 'properties'), there select 'Tools' menu where you will see\nthe 'Error checking' heading\n\nOtherwise, see the manufacturers website of whomever made that hard drive and see if you can find any tools to use. You may have bad sectors.
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insert your windows xp cd in your cd rom \ngo to start>>run>>command\ntype : SFC /scannow\neach & every file missing, corrupted , deleted whatsoever is retrieved & restored and your OS is just like recently installed.
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well seems u have done everything, almost. here is something u can try. if u have a winxp cd, try sfc/scan now
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There are software utilities out there that can scan each individual sector without the need of the file allocation table, which is what you've destroyed by deleting the partition.\n\nHowever, such utilities are pretty expensive.  Unless you plan on doing a lot of recovery and making some of that money back, none of the utilities you need are worth it.  Instead, you can probably spend around $300 - $400 having a Backup/Restore company look at the drive for you.\n\nYou have to ask yourself, is the data really worth it?
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turn off you restore feature, re rerun the scan in safe mode, delete the offneding file\nreboot\nscan once more in normal mode\nonce safe renable restore
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There are two ways that immediately come to mind, fixing it yourself with Norton Utilities, or sending it to a company like DriveSavers.\n\nNorton Utilities has the ability to scan a crashed hard disk and allow you to copy the contents to another drive. This works well with hard disks with "soft" crashes (The FAT table is corrupt, the drive forgets where files are)\n\nIf the drive has physically crashed, your only option may be a company like DriveSavers. They actually take your drive into a clean room, remove the platters, and put them into a new mechanism, then try to recover your data. They have a high success rate, but they often charge hundreds, if not thousands to recover your data.\n\nAs for preventing this, other than not kicking or dropping your computer, there isn't much you can do to prevent a hard disk crash. Always make sure your critical data is backed up!
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First step would be to defragment the troublesome partition.  If the problem still persists try a 'Restore' point where the computer was behaving itself.
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If you really dont care of the contents on your cp just do what i did when i had all problems: Get ur disk thats ur home like windows xp or watever and put it in when the cp reboots. But you gotta know what your doing. Also if you have some spar cash look in the yellow pages for computer repair
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There are so many tools present about bad sectors remover but these are best . You can use sea map tool or partation magic also retest the bad areas if can be correct then he correct them.\n\nwhich bad sectors can't be removed you can make partition by leaving that area un-partitioned with partition magic.
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sorry man....but only an Ablolute Disk Sector reader program can read your disk now.....and it will need to be run from a DIFFERENT hard drive....\n\nContact a 'data recovery' professional, but you may find the cost to not be worth it.  several hundreds of dollars US.
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if this is a win 98 system . boot up in dos or with a boot disk get to the dos prompt type  get to the root directory and type Fdisk/MBR , might work not guarenteed . depends on damage .Oops a little more info. sorry had to go. but anyway after enter this command you will not see anysignificant activity . just reboot again...hopefully fdisk will have fixed the problem and you wont have to worry about file recovery.
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Run scandisk. This is quite a common problem and scandisk usually makes windows report the correct disk space.
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you need to run scanreg from dos, and ler it replace the registry with a good backup copy