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@Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 01:38:55 +1000
Subject: Re: OT-DFSee Help for Catastrophic Disk Failure
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Jimmy wrote:

>Hello Friends
>    Yes it appears one of my 2 IBM "DeathStar" 75GXP drives
has gone "screech mode" and naturally Murphy's Law demands it be
the system's 1st HDD which houses Boot Magic, WinXP, Xandros Linux root
partition, and OS/2 system files as well.  I have good backup on the OS/2
and Linux partitions but I'd prefer to recover as much as possible and it
appears there may be some reason for hope.  When I employ a Win98 Boot
Floppy instead of the Caldera Dos boot floppy and then launch PQMagic it
can not only see all the partitions ( as it also does w/ the Caldera boot )
but it reports the proper Label names for each Fat and NTFS partition, so
it isn't hopelessly corrupted.  However, no floppy or cdrom chkdsk/scandisk
utility I have tried seems to be able to deal with the bad sectors. 
PQMagics chkdsk says all is fine but the "advanced" sector check
returns a "CRC error" that it cannot
>fix. 
>
If you have CRC errors on the disk that means that they are 'hard" 
errors and those sectors cannot be reliably written to/read from and 
will have to be marked BAD - permanently so that they will never be used 
again.

> I even tried the 4 diskette Win2K recovery console.  So finally now
>I've booted from XP-Pro's CDROM and followed instructions to get a
Recovery Install.  It seems no different than any other as far as I could
detect and left me with a system that required an
"NTLDR/Boot.ini" floppy to launch XP on the HDD, where I
recovered the NTFS partition but have so far had little luck with the
Fat32's.  Before I get any further, especially to the point of recovering
or restoring OS/2 I recall that XP default install enables a little
"grenade" that seeks to format every partition in sight....
>especially OS/2.  I can't recall for certain ( it's been a few years )
but I seem to remember that DFSee fixes this problem.  I downloaded the
newest version and man! has that app grown!  It was always cool but it's
grown hair and biceps..... and a pricetag.  IN any case, I surely would
appreciate any sage advice regarding defusing the XP grenade, or also any
stories of other "DeathStar" owners trials with these drives. 
I'd like to not go for the class action suit, except as an absolute last
resort since these drives have been good to me as long as they've been kept
cool... or so I have thought.
>I am hoping that IBM's Drive Fitness Test which appears to have a low
level formatter might be able to return this drive to use.  So since I have
limited access to the net now it may take me awhile to respond but I would
appreciate any comments or advice so I can get up and running on my own
machine ASAP.
>Thanks in advance
>!Happy Holidays!
>  
>

Hi Jimmy,

Most important step - sign up with 
 to get peer support.

HTH

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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