Earlier today I had a couple of lockups while playing games. I decided to try and defrag the drive, but it kept hanging up at the same spot. So I ran SeaTools (it is a Seagate drive) to see if it would detect any problems. It came up with quite a few errors, and could not correct any of them. I booted back into windows and tried to move as many of my files as I could, and eventually it locked up. I rebooted and windows 7 x64 would hang at the loading screen. Tried safemode, did the same thing. Tried XP on another hard drive and it did the same thing. So I used some program on the Ultimate Boot CD that was based on Linux to see if I could have it check the partition, but it could not mount the drive. As it stands now, I took out the drive and my computer is running fine.
The drive is a Seagate ST3500 and is sata.
Is the drive beyond recovery? If it is recoverable, what should I do?
Whether the drive is recoverable or not, I will need a new one. I plan on getting another Spinpoint f3, and was thinking maybe I could clone the drive and get the data?
XP on another Hard drive doing the same thing leads me to believe it may not be the hard drive. Have you overclocked or anything recently?
[QUOTE=Shadaez;27450889]XP on another Hard drive doing the same thing leads me to believe it may not be the hard drive. Have you overclocked or anything recently?[/QUOTE]
I have already found it to be the hard drive. When I used seatools it came up with many errors on the drive it couldnt fix, and when I used GParted it couldnt mount the drive. After I removed the drive, Windows 7 boots fine, I haven't tried XP yet.
I decided to mess around in PartedMagic and am using TestDisk to rebuild the MFT and MBR, could this fix it?
Well you guys are sure helpful
Rebuilding the MFT and MBR failed, so I deleted the partition and repartitioned it.
Now I can boot into windows and access the drive.
Now I just need to recover my files.
I am using Recuva, but it seems to hang at a certain spot everytime.
Will it eventually continue on, or is there a better data recovery software I could use?
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