Trying to recover some files that disappeared after playing with partitions.
The laptop hard drive seems to have a lot of bad sectors however and is probably damaged. (Problems copying files, slow, etc.)
Should I try to to do data recovery first or try to fix the damaged drive. Will fixing the bad sectors affect the data recovery software?
2007-03-19 12:11:55 · 2 answers · asked by Novaman 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
if you've got bad sectors and running chkdsk (win xp) or scandisk (win 98) it will mark the sectors so the operating system won't use them you can't repair them.
bad sectors are usually a sign of an impending disk failure so if I were you I'd try data recovery first save everything then try to repair the disk and then get ready for a disk failure although it may be quiet a while coming but it will
some very good and free data recovery software is PC inspector you can get it here http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
2007-03-19 12:21:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Before Repair, and do it on Startup (Reboot) So that the Recovery Application can work in Low Mem, and Low Overhead Mode. Good Luck
2007-03-19 12:16:30 · answer #2 · answered by Devil Dog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋