pogox
01-21-2009, 12:04 AM
I'm pretty much just about to give up here, so here is what I've done so far in failed attempts to a solution.
First and foremost, this 2.5 harddrive is corrupted, and starting to believe it's a manufacture failure. when trying to boot, it would say Press F11 for recovery. Then MBR error. Then no Operating system. repeated. Bios can recognize the hdd
1. I've removed the hdd and connected via usb external to another laptop, vista will try to read but no responding until usb is removed. My computer, ms dos, Admin Storage manager all not responding. The hdd is detected by the bio and windows device manager, but any attempts to access both the C: and recovery partitions will hang until removed. Device manager properties reports this Device is working.
2. Tried booting directly to DOS only chkdsk, couldn't fix anything. Tried UBCD (fdisk, super fdisk, boot partition etc) I've notice it would say LBA cache flush write error. I'm able to use FDISK to preview the partitions. Tried to delete the recovery and make C: as the active prim. Unsuccessful. Tried to Forcefully boot into c:\, XP logo will show..and Black screen.
3. Tried Acronis true image. Managed to create an backup image of the important docs to another hard drive. Then used the recovery option in Acronis, could not retrieve any docs as all were corrupted and unreadable.
4. Ubuntu would see the disk, still unmountable even after trying to use Terminal to mount the disk.
5. Try Vista install disk, froze black right after the vista logo loading screen. Win XP install disk, refused to format any of partitions.
I've pretty much thrown in the towel here. Replacing the hard drive is not the problem. It's the docs inside that are important. Shelling out $1000's for in-store data recovery doesn't seem like a viable solution for me. If there isn't another solution other than in-store data recovery, I'll just toss it in the can as the docs are important but i can live without them.
There is one thing I've yet to attempt, is to buy a 2.5 to 3.5 ide converter and install it onto my desktop computer. booting into dos and try to manually copy one by one or useing UBCD again(sometimes lucky to access the c:, but couldn't copy anything due to not having Dos USB hdd drivers)
Can anyone give me some tips, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
Update: Gateway system recovery disk doesn't work, comes with Hard drive Write error.
First and foremost, this 2.5 harddrive is corrupted, and starting to believe it's a manufacture failure. when trying to boot, it would say Press F11 for recovery. Then MBR error. Then no Operating system. repeated. Bios can recognize the hdd
1. I've removed the hdd and connected via usb external to another laptop, vista will try to read but no responding until usb is removed. My computer, ms dos, Admin Storage manager all not responding. The hdd is detected by the bio and windows device manager, but any attempts to access both the C: and recovery partitions will hang until removed. Device manager properties reports this Device is working.
2. Tried booting directly to DOS only chkdsk, couldn't fix anything. Tried UBCD (fdisk, super fdisk, boot partition etc) I've notice it would say LBA cache flush write error. I'm able to use FDISK to preview the partitions. Tried to delete the recovery and make C: as the active prim. Unsuccessful. Tried to Forcefully boot into c:\, XP logo will show..and Black screen.
3. Tried Acronis true image. Managed to create an backup image of the important docs to another hard drive. Then used the recovery option in Acronis, could not retrieve any docs as all were corrupted and unreadable.
4. Ubuntu would see the disk, still unmountable even after trying to use Terminal to mount the disk.
5. Try Vista install disk, froze black right after the vista logo loading screen. Win XP install disk, refused to format any of partitions.
I've pretty much thrown in the towel here. Replacing the hard drive is not the problem. It's the docs inside that are important. Shelling out $1000's for in-store data recovery doesn't seem like a viable solution for me. If there isn't another solution other than in-store data recovery, I'll just toss it in the can as the docs are important but i can live without them.
There is one thing I've yet to attempt, is to buy a 2.5 to 3.5 ide converter and install it onto my desktop computer. booting into dos and try to manually copy one by one or useing UBCD again(sometimes lucky to access the c:, but couldn't copy anything due to not having Dos USB hdd drivers)
Can anyone give me some tips, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
Update: Gateway system recovery disk doesn't work, comes with Hard drive Write error.