corrupted beyond repair?

[Joe Camel]

i was stupid, i tried to OC a mobo that didnt have a PCI lock a little too far and corrupted the drive. :bang head

now, no matter what i try to do it BSOD's or says the drive is corrupted and quits. (format, clean install, chkdsk, repair windows etc etc)

ive given up on recovering the data, i just want a working HD again. can someone suggest how i can fix this HD?

thanks in advance!

[Jame Gumb]

If you mean it won't let you install again on the drive........ auto clave that bad boy. http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave-discontinued/install.html successor of boot nuke.

If it's 98 and above the data is still there (98% chance) and can be retrieved by hooking it up as a secondary drive. I'd drop the data to another HDD before I'd wipe it. Also a minute or two will be enough to wipe the boot header/sector.

[pscout]

I would think a low level format should fix it?

Haven't done one in years. I expect that hard drive manufactures would have some utility (perhaps specific to their drives only) that will do a low level format.

As I recall, i think i got mine from IBM. Also, it might need to be done from a bootable floppy -- ie no windows?

The low level format should make it look like a new drive.

I would not have thought the overclock would have damaged the thing permanently, just the mbr/data, but this is just a wild guess.

[Jame Gumb]

I thought about that too, the OC messing up the drive....but I've seen a HP HDD get jacked up over a power breaker switch being flipped. At least that's what they claimed.

[Joe Camel]

its win2k in NTFS.

i have it setup with 2x partitions. the original OS is (was) in partition #1, then when i installed a new mobo, i setup on partition #2.

while trying to OC the new mobo (NO BIOS settings so i used clockgen) i noticed no PCI lock, so i limited myself to 220 FSB (+20) and while running Sandra CPU benchmark, it errored and then dropped to a blank desktop.

now if i try to boot (normal or safemode) it BSODs

i booted from 2kCD and deleted partition #1 and tried to reinstall fresh win2K. got about 70% done and then went to: "drive is corrupted press F3 to quit"

booted from CD went to repair console, ran chkdsk on both partitions, it found errors and "repaired" them...still acts the same (listed above)

ill pick up a new HD so i have a working setup i can try to copy B4 i wipe the sucker...(2x FOLDing QMD workunits)


thanks guys! any more suggestions are welcome :)


EDIT:
wow, if this works, i might actually get to use my Raptor again...its been sitting on a shelf since it acts about the same as this dive does :rolleyes:

[Sonny]

Do a quick Zero of the drive, this will take care of any resident MFT & broken Partition Tables which is what is probably causing your problem.

[Joe Camel]

Do a quick Zero of the drive ...
(sorry) whats that? how do i do that?

thanks :)


EDIT:
dont let the post count and fancy sig/avatar fool ya, ... im clueless ;)

[Sonny]

To write Ones & Zeros to your drive, the HDD manufacturer will have a utility on their website for you to do this. Just make sure to do quick unless you want to wait 30mnts/Gbyte.

[Joe Camel]

excellent!

thanks again guys!!

[Silversinksam]

Joe Camel,

Here's info that will help :santa:

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/geom/formatUtilities.html

[Joe Camel]

sweet!

give a man a fish / teach a man to fish...

ill read up as soon as i get off work and get a new HD from Staples.
(i can always use another HD for the FOLDing Farm ;))

thanks for the link SSS!!

[Joe Camel]

got both folders off the drive and am in the process of "write zeros to drive" as i type...so far so good !! :D

[K15]

I would think a low level format should fix it?

Haven't done one in years. I expect that hard drive manufactures would have some utility (perhaps specific to their drives only) that will do a low level format.

As I recall, i think i got mine from IBM. Also, it might need to be done from a bootable floppy -- ie no windows?

The low level format should make it look like a new drive.

I would not have thought the overclock would have damaged the thing permanently, just the mbr/data, but this is just a wild guess.


Nope, you can't do a true low level format on a modern drive. The sectors and tracks are written at the factory and you can't change them. What people usually call "low level" is zeroing a drive. Zeroing a drive puts the drive back as it was new, but doesn't rewrite any sectors. Zeroing a drive won't fix any physical corruption or board damage.

[Jame Gumb]

Just to clarify.... boot nuke is the successor of autoclave..... all it does is write ones and zeros and it can write them to the end of the storage.

[Joe Camel]

new partition and OS is up and updating as i type.

didnt need to use anything other than the utility/diagnostic boot disk from WD but since i have a few other disks to fix, ill keep the autoclave program as a "last-resort".

thanks again guys :)

[pscout]

and thanks to all for updating my very dated knowledge :)

I am guessing the last time I did an LLF I was running os/2 :D

... and on 1GB or smaller drives!

[K15]

and thanks to all for updating my very dated knowledge :)

I am guessing the last time I did an LLF I was running os/2 :D

... and on 1GB or smaller drives!


lol no problem, I do know with stepper drives and early voice coil drives you did have to rewrite sectors often, errors were pretty common :eh?: