Windows Vista Damaged Hard Drive

wahn

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I have a hard drive that seems to be damaged. Is there any way I can perhaps get windows to overlook damaged sectors and use only what works? What can I do?
 
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Have you tried running chkdsk? Make sure you tick the box to fix broken sectors.. You can find chkdsk by right-clicking on your HDD, choose properties, tools and then 'check now'...
 
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the HDD doesnt isnt even recognzed by windows anymore. When I boot with the damaged HDD plugged in Chksdk starts but cannot execute what it does.

Should I play around with different master slave connection settings?

Should I bring this HDD in for repair (Theres nothing really important on it)

Ideas?

Many Thanks,
W.
 
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It sounds a a bit terminal if chkdsk refuses to run... I'm unsure how you would go about repairing it really..
 
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kemical said:
It sounds a a bit terminal if chkdsk refuses to run... I'm unsure how you would go about repairing it really..
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Buy replacement sadly, I had a segate let go, lucky I managed to backup once the fun started, because by the end of it it wouldn't even run chkdsk.
 
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I accept with information:the HDD doesnt isnt even recognzed by windows anymore. When I boot with the damaged HDD plugged in Chksdk starts but cannot execute what it does.
 
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