Hard drive crashed -- need advice

[fido123]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

I also need to re-mention that the boot manager is totally borked and throws all sorts of lovely errors when I try to boot Windows (my WUBI installation is also ****ed)

EDIT: If I buy a new laptop I am destroying this one with a hammer

Bad sectors are often a sign of the nearing death of a hardrive. Buy a new one I guess. If you want to recover data DO NOT boot your hardrive. Boot a liveCD of whatever and already have your backup media connected and back up stuff from there. You can access all files from your liveCD assuming you don't have any encrypted partitions.

I'm not really one for looking up deals but laptop hardrives are easy as hell to replace: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136278

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

There's no point in replacing the HDD -- this laptop sucks and the hard drive is all I care about (I don't want to lose my files).

It's just dumb because this problem should be entirely fixable but it's like everything's ****ing out and tossing errors/problems every step of the way.

Right now I'm loaded into PartedMagic/GParted trying to see wtf I can do here

[fido123]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

Read that article I sent you and I suggest backing up any data you can ASAP. If you get errors just google or ask here. I won't be able to answer any questions now until ~6PM tomorrow though.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

Looks like it's too late anyway -- third partition's ****ed, too. Doesn't even show a number under how much room is used/unused. No files show up in the manager.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

Wow it doesn't even let me do a full wipe/reformat on the thing

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

Welp there goes all mah pronz.

Time to get a better laptop anyway

[fido123]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

Your hardrive has crashed. If you have super important shir on it don't touch your laptop at all and you can spend ~$800 to scan the data but that's kinda crazy. But yeah it's dead.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

I feel like I just witnessed someone dying of cancer within a day... started out as one obvious problem and soon became worse and worse and worse and worse until everything died off. lol

[supermousie]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

rip Marcus' laptop.

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I just waited for you to post again so I could congratulate you on reaching 3141 posts.
Congratulations on hitting 3141 posts.

[UserNameGoesHere]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

It was a Seagate wasn't it? Open that sucker up, take the drive out. Seagate? (Seriously do tell)

And no, my commands do exactly what I said they'd do, no more and no less. If you enter it wrong, yeah you can really botch things up (dd is powerful) but it can be used for precise filesystem surgery as well. The seek parameter was to skip to the desired sector, bs was to select block size of a sector (which is usually 512) and count set to 1 to say only one sector. But you better get that seek number correct.

fido123 I don't appreciate implications that my commands were somehow damaging. Entered correctly and with the right values, they do exactly as instructed. I appreciate any complementary advice given but I am not here to damage anyone's machines and resent your implications to the contrary.