John Keswick 119 Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 If it wankered both drives at the same time, it could have been a power problem (spike) OR WORSER it could be something more malicous that has fecked the drives intentionaly. The trouble with the second scenario is: if you recover any data from these drives then you run the risk of burning the new one. Better to let some tech wizard retrieve your naughty photos IMO Now THATS got you thinking hasnt it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 14,284 Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Ok I'll start again. Originally there were two hard drives in my computer (the memory that stores your pics, music etc and holds all info that windows or mac software or linux or whatever uses) One is a slave the other is a master (the master is the c: drive on your my computer) The master is the one which is booted from when you start your computer. This had a corrupt start up so basically the windows program stored on it is fooked hence it needs formatting but not before I retrieve the data stored on it (my data not windows). My slave which I store pics on and stuff is mechanicaly fooked it is clicking and making a hell of a lot of noise for no result. So I have bought a new hard drive today to use as a new master, re-installed windows on it. Then plugged my old master hard drive back in as a slave then I have managed to remove all uncorrupted data off it and stored it on the new drive. The old slave will not do this the data is on it uncorrupted but physically the drive is unable to access it. So I can't plug the broken hard drive into anything to retrieve owt because the drive is physically incapable of getting the data. need to remove the actual disk (it looks similar to a VHS video head) from the hard drive as this is what stores the data and get it from that somehow. Rekon it's PC World and a ton lighter tomorrow i,d say your pretty much fecked then If it wankered both drives at the same time, it could have been a power problem (spike) OR WORSER it could be something more malicous that has fecked the drives intentionaly. The trouble with the second scenario is: if you recover any data from these drives then you run the risk of burning the new one. Better to let some tech wizard retrieve your naughty photos IMO Now THATS got you thinking hasnt it Wasn't me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
davyt63 1,845 Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 could it be the library? regards davy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest jt750 Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 PC World charges the earth for repairs ..take it to a local small computer business and see what they can do Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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