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Geek Culture / My C drive won't register! My pc is really screwed this time! Anyone knows how to help?

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Megaton Cat
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Alright i know I posted dozens of annoying problems about my pc. But this time my computer is just messed. It won't start up saying the C drive won't register. I have tried FDISK but it gives me a "error reading disk" message, i have also tried reinstalling Windows but i get an error there too. Any one know wat wrong? I'll greatly appriciate it cause I am getting my upgrade tommoro( AMD Athlon 1800+) and i need my harddrive working.

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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 23:28
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Your hard drive could have gone complely, or the MFT is corrupt or you've got a loose cable.


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Posted: 19th Sep 2003 23:36
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yep sounds like your hdd is on the way out.

try:
reseating the ide and power cables on the hdd
check if the hdd is hot, if it is, stick it in the frigde until it's almost cold and put it back in the comp, it might actually work for a little while, then it will fail once it's heated up
if your computer is new and came with xp built in, then your hdd is ntfs, fdisk wont detect the partition and render it a blank drive.
get a demo of ntfsdos (read) if you have ntfs it will allow you to see the contents of the drive.
to diagnose the drive get a dos boot program called eurosoft pccheck (they have to email you the demo) if you go in the hdd options and do a full check. if you get 0,0,0,0 it means the hdd is dead.

i think i've covered every possibly way.

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usually the manufacturer of the HD has utils on their site. Find the make and model and see if they offer utils for your drive. If so these utils can determine if the drive is alive, half-dead, or dead. Please note that half-dead is as bad as dead...

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umm. Would u guys think it would be less hassle to just buy another 20 GB HDD?

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Why only 20Gb - you should be able to get around 40Gb for more or less the same price.


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get an 80GB, only about $70 I think.


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Posted: 20th Sep 2003 02:46 Edited at: 20th Sep 2003 02:48
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I only have around 30 $ to spend on another HD though.

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i dont think you can buy 20gb's anymore unless the businesses are clearing them out (end of line)

megatron shop around on major online shops and see if you can pickup a bargain!

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anything under 60 gig these days is pushing it IMHO

Western Digital drives are great, based on my years of experience with them.

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ibm deskstar drives are getting good reviews.

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You can get 40gb hard drives for $30 if you look around a bit. Try pricewatch.com.

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EBuyer is a good one, as long as you go for brand names.


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try a 60gig, it works, i forgot the price but i got it really cheap on sale at CompUSA
..i could of gotten 120gig for about like $10-20 more though....

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k thanks guys
i got a 80 gig! WOhoo

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Just thing of the extra amount of rubbish you can now store on your hard drive...


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yeah millions of dbpro snippets

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millions of my snippets


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I hope to be getting a 300Gb one soon, so I can start re-installing my games again (getting it mainly for Halo & Unreal 2004).


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thats right, all the crap I can now install....
My last one wuz sooooooo messyyyy I had god damn DB snippets in "my documents" game project folders, school related project folders in every drive and every folder. Couldnt find a single thing.

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if your snippets are all over the place then why not use my dark snippet pro

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wats that?

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ah it's a program i made ages ago when dbpro came out. only reason why it dont get plugged now is because no one cares about it.

anyway back to your hdd discussion.

if you have your new hdd test it with various benchmarking software see if it's upto scratch.

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