Repairing a hard disc

 
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:16 pm    Post subject: Repairing a hard disc Reply with quote

I bought a 300gb HD a few weeks ago to work as an external in a USB box. The problem is that it's suddenly stopped working and now says 'the directory is corrupt' when I try to look at it.

So, I got the NTFS recovery program from www.diskinternals.com and it seems to work, but I'm not up for paying for it, so if anyone knows a similar freeware program I'd appreciate it. I've looked about, but there's so much guff to wade through.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

spin rite -- I'll look it up ...


http://isohunt.com/download/29343463/spinrite.torrent

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

should do the trick Smile

I downloaded the torrent and nod says it's clean ...
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nice one, I'll give it a go - over the past couple of weeks I'd been filling the thing up with all sorts of movies etc so it would be a bugger to have to start again.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what version is diskinternals ... ?

spinrite looks very complicated ..

http://www.restorer2000.com/

http://w16.easy-share.com/1700017096.html
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I couldn't get that download working from that site - it keeps timing out. Any chance you could put it on humyo?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 6:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll leave it there until you say you have it ...

gone ...
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cool, got it now
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