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Hard Drives - help required with non-responding HDD... posted in the Hardware forums; Originally Posted by zugolg yes, that is good news. It means that your HD is alive but needs to reformat beacuse its corrupt (NOTE: DON'T REFORMAT until you have a ...

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Originally Posted by zugolg

yes, that is good news. It means that your HD is alive but needs to reformat beacuse its corrupt (NOTE: DON'T REFORMAT until you have a backup of files)

1. use the prog you have and start to make backup of the files.
2. when you got all the files reformat the HD
Note any interception during format is deadly to HD, so be careful
How would it become corrupt then, when it has been fine before? Nothing happened as far as I can tell to make this happen.
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Originally Posted by zugolg
yes, but using raid (thin cable) instead of IDE (a wide flat cable)
but since you can access toy HD using programs it would mean that it is detected by bios so ...
Do I disconnect one of the 250GB disks and connect this one instead? Will that cause any problems to the others, or will it simply detect it as a 200GB disk instead of a 250GB disk if it works?
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Do I disconnect one of the 250GB disks and connect this one instead? Will that cause any problems to the others, or will it simply detect it as a 200GB disk instead of a 250GB disk if it works?
no, you should use this as a slave drive. Anyway you should not attempt this stage yet. As this might cause further problems. Backup you files first before you do anything.
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Originally Posted by Aquaboy
How would it become corrupt then, when it has been fine before? Nothing happened as far as I can tell to make this happen.
many reasons for it to corrupt, examples could be improper disconnection of your HD. To be honest, i'm not sure why your HD is corrupted though. but things like this happens



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