billander wrote: |
What if I can't access the drive? Is there a way I could try and patch bad sectors and see if I can make the drive readable? |
billander wrote: |
so this obviously would mean a bad drive due to bad sectors? is there anyway to attempt to patch/block the bad sectors? |
Nonapeptide wrote: |
Just so you know, if you follow Tom Bair's advice, that would completely destroy all data on the drive. If you want to recover the information you may want to put the hard drive in a plastic, air-tight bag and place it in the refrigerator for a few hours and then plug it back into the computer. From there, boot into a recovered CD of some kind and begin transferring all the files off of it that you can. That drive is a goner and will completely fail in the very near future. |
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