• Hard Drive - Possible Failure
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I knew it was only a matter of time. I believe my desktop hard drive might have just died and on Christmas Eve of all things. [B]Hard Drive:[/B] Samsung HD103UJ (Spinpoint F1DT 1TB) The operating system used is Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit. [B]Problem:[/B] I'm unable to boot from the hard drive nor am I able to access the data located on it. This problem came when I booted up my desktop as normal only to be greeted by an endless booting animation of Windows. I eventually gave in and manually restarted the computer. My motherboard then reported, "Error loading operating system". I tried the hard drive on another motherboard only to be greeted by, "Hard disk failure is imminent". [B]Things I tried:[/B] - Used Windows install disk. It boots fine and loads files until it eventually hangs at a black screen. - Boot drive CD. Boot drive loads fine, drive diagnostic software isn't able to fully detect hard drive despite being detected by any motherboard it's plugged into. - Installed Samsung HDD in another PC as secondary drive and booted OS from a different primary drive (both uses SATA ports). OS fails to boot and instead hangs at a black screen. Removing Samsung hard drive allows OS to start up normally. - Same as above but instead used the Windows install disk. It boots and loads files until it either hangs at a black screen or just stays put with just the Vista background and cursor. Removing Samsung hard drive allows Windows install disk to start up and work flawlessly. At first I assumed I just corrupted the boot, but the fact that I couldn't even access my data nor perform any kind of maintenance is extremely worrying. The drive itself sounds fine and I can hear it spin up and work normally. Anyone have any ideas? I've already lost hope of putting the drive back in working condition. My biggest priority now is just getting all of the important data off the drive and onto somewhere else safe. I've had this hard drive for 4 years now so my warranty has expired.
Get Spinrite and run it on the drive, it should be able to get it to a "working well enough" state to get most of your data off of it.
[QUOTE=bohb;33884409]Get Spinrite and run it on the drive, it should be able to get it to a "working well enough" state to get most of your data off of it.[/QUOTE] Sorry for the delay. I ran SpinRite but around 60% through the recovery process it had to stop due to a critical error. This is what I got: [code]Division Overflow Error! A critical error occurred at: B022 from which SpinRite CANNOT recover. The system has been halted! PLEASE record the location shown above, and the information given below, and report it to us so we can find and fix this problem... eax: 3A7F91DF esi: 00000000 ebx: 00000025 edi: 0010003F ecx: 00000000 ebp: 00BA0000 edx: 00000154 esp: 00003FEE ds: 1063 es: 1063 fs: 6FE8 gs: 3F2E ss: 33F2 fl: 0246[/code] I was given no other option other than to manually restart my computer. I think I can safely say this drive is pretty much dead despite being detectable, shame I can't even access any data on it.
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