Can I haz a halps?

[UUD-40]

 

funny noises coming from your computer are never good. 

[[BTF]adam]

Pfffft, it was as good as a backup drive I could afford, student life aint easy y'know!

Quadz, when I do run chkdsk from windows, it tells me it has to be restarted and done while booting up, when done while booting up,it bluescreens and restarts my PC.

ah well, im sure I can get all my music back off my ipod somehow. 

[X'tyfe]

Pfffft, it was as good as a backup drive I could afford, student life aint easy y'know!

you call getting paid to goto college hard? you should come here and do it

[console]

Quadz, when I do run chkdsk from windows, it tells me it has to be restarted and done while booting up, when done while booting up,it bluescreens and restarts my PC.

Hmm.

Do you know what kind of filesystem is on that drive?  Probably FAT32 or NTFS?

If it's FAT32 you might be able to boot off a linux CD, like Knoppix, and try to fsck the bad drive.  (fsck is Linux version of chkdsk.)

Here are some supposedly free disk repair links for Windows:

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Search/disk_repair.html

However, this is not an endorsement.  I have no idea if those apps are legit or not or even any good.  I just googled for stuff...

Here's a commercial one: (Hard Drive Mechanic)

http://www.highergroundsoftware.com/


Regards,

quadz

[[BTF]adam]

pretty sure when I got my new system ages ago I wiped both disks clear and redid em NTFS.

cheers for the help though i'll just have to redownload my pr0n again and get the songs off my ipod.. probably a good thing this happened, had a lot of shit on the drive music-wise, only got good stuff on my 'pod ^^

[reaper]

there is actually a "windows live cd", so you could boot to that and run chkdsk and on the ntfs partition.

[chacal]

Hello Adam....

Each problem is different, but something similar happend to one of my users. What i did was to create a boot CD with knoppix (i don't know if i spelled right). then I booted with it. And I was able to read the contents of most of the info of the drive... you can either connect another 'backup HDD'... to pass the info.... or a jump drive...or connect it into share and pass the info.

'gud' luck....