Harddrive Problem

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ShadowIncline

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About a week ago i turned on one of my computers...It had a 250GB harddrive that has worked flawlessly since Feb. But when i Turned on my comp. it said Disk Read Error...So naturally i checked floppy/CD drives and nothing...I put the HDD into another comp as a slave and it says it is only 30 GB, and needs to be reformatted.. does anyone know why? or how I could possibly fix it??? :confused: :confused:
 
So you said it doesn't work on your PC while it's set on Master, but it works on another PC set as Slave?

Start > Run and type "Convert C: /FS:NTFS" (or whichever the non-working HDD's letter is) This will take some time to complete.
 
Try each IDE cable with different parts to understand what boots up and what doesnt.

It could be a faulty IDE cable or damaged HDD.
 
I'm guessing it's showing only 30GB of data becouse the system file is messed up, happened to me once, did the reconvert and it was all ok.
 
filip-matijevic said:
I'm guessing it's showing only 30GB of data becouse the system file is messed up, happened to me once, did the reconvert and it was all ok.
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That also happened to me with my old system. Suddenly it was only showing up half of my original space.

Try to reconvert the drive with partition manager.
 
ShadowIncline said:
So after it reformats my files should still be there, Right?
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no no no, it's not a reformat, when you reformat it deletes the whole HDD, when you reconvert it only changes your HDD system files, data remains untouched.

Do the reconvert.

Start > Run and type "Convert C: /FS:NTFS" (or whichever the non-working HDD's letter is)
 
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