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October 12, 2006 at 05:29 AM
mjwx

Dying Hard Drives

by mjwx . Updated 19 years, 9 months ago

I?ve got a WD 200GB SATA disk on its last legs, BIOS sometimes will not pick it up, sometimes it does and the disk wont boot in to either of my OS’s, just sits there with a blank screen. This disk has 2 windows installs on it but the active partition is on another disk.

I?ve run the WD Diag tool over it and came up with nothing, what other tools do people use on sick HDD’s. I used to use WataDiag but haven?t bothered to re-download that yet. I’ve got a suspicion that only the first part of the disk is buggered.

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