Any IT/Computer people out there?

[torinsmom]

My DS's computer crashed. It has happened before; I hooked the hard drive up to my laptop, but it wasn't able to open the drive to backup the data. Ran chkdsk/f/r to try and help it. Found some bad sectors, and took the whole night to finish, but still no luck with reading the hard drive. I started running chkdsk again several hours ago, and now it is finding "File record segment unreadable" started at 185954 and has been consecutive up to 186252 so far. I am assuming this is a bad sign. The drive is vibrating as normal, no clicks or anything. My son has music and MineCraft files on there he really wants to get off.

Should I interrupt the chkdsk or would that be bad? At this rate, it could take a month to complete. Anything else I can try to save the data?

TIA Marsha

 

[frijolefrito]

Well from an IT perspective I'd run checkdisk once. If that doesn't fix it I pull the harddrive put it in another computer or I run some other software that recovers the whole operating system keeping your files. Interrupting things can be tricky. I usually wait till it freezes or sometimes leave it over night.

 

[HotDiggityDog]

Sounds like your hard drive is on its last legs. So...

Get another hard drive. Install it in place of your current drive. Re-install windows. Add your old drive in as secondary drive. Copy files from old drive to new drive.

Personally I have my system configured for RAID 1 so that the files are mirrored between two drives. That way if one drive ever fails the second is there to takeover until I can get a replacement drive. I also make sure my most important files are backed-up to an online storage service.

 

[torinsmom]

The drive can't be read. Right now chkdsk is still running. It found a lot of files unreadable and now it is daying insufficient disk space to hotfix unreadable file #### for every one it said that about. I'll definitely be getting another hard drive; just hoping to salvage some files on this one.