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ernie
Joined: 16 Feb 2006
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| I'm having trouble with a malfunctioning hard drive, it reports an "un-mountable boot volume" and Windows won't start. I tried hooking it up as slave to a second system to see what's wrong, but it reports 0 bytes present, as if it all got deleted (which I'm sure is not the case, because there's at least the attempt of booting the OS). I'm thinking I should download Linux, the CD-start version, and try using that to recover the drive, since I heard Linux does a much better job at that than Windows. It's just that I don't know which distribution to get? Any advice? |
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allan
Joined: 06 Mar 2006
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| Posted: 04/27/07 - 01:46 Post subject: |
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| Well, I don't really think adding a different OS will do much of anything. You should try and restore the data as it is at the moment… there's very good data recovery software available to download (on any OS), you should try getting some of that and repairing the HD. The tools are more important in this case than the operative system. Oh, and BTW, when you attached the faulty HD to the other machine, did you remember to set the jumpers properly for its new position? |
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