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"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
... most likely you have a bad sector (physically) on your hard drive, bad enough within the boot sector. Most likely your harddrive is short before dead. Download test tools from your harddrive manufactor and check your harddrive Constant seeking like that described suggests a problem with the servo platter (which the drive uses as a reference for head position). If the reference is bad, there's no way any utility software can recover from that. Furthermore, having the drive powered on trying to fix it just increases the chances that the drive will get further damaged (especially if the problem with the servo platter is that a head crashed...there's probably debris floating around in the drive at that point, which could lead to further head crashes, as well as cause the servo platter to be damaged even more). If the data is backed up, and there is 100% no chance of taking the drive to a recovery service, then there's no harm in messing around with utility software. And there's a remote chance it might help. But otherwise, the best course of action is to leave the drive powered down. Pete |
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