Solve : Recover Partition is C:\ ?????

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Answer» Quote from: Allan on April 10, 2010, 02:37:26 PM It was intended as HYPERBOLE BC - Wow - can't get anything past you heh, yah that's what it seems like doesn't it.. Sometimes when I post a suggested fix for someone and BC is looking at the THREAD afterward, I wonder if I will pass the test. (you may be good, but can you pass the BC test) I'll have to ask the in-laws what they want to do. I'll also have to compare the price of a new HDD as to the cost of SpinRite (first time purchasers = $89).Quote magnets don't affect hard drives. Just ignore that remark.Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 10, 2010, 07:50:36 PM Just ignore that remark. Go ahead, try it. take a magnet, run it over a hard drive. Nothing happens. Agreed, You would NEED an electro-magnet or a rare earth magnet to affect the contents of a HDD....Quote from: Puter Moron on April 10, 2010, 07:05:07 PM I'll have to ask the in-laws what they want to do. I'll also have to compare the price of a new HDD as to the cost of SpinRite (first time purchasers = $89). I didn't say it was free; I have a copy licensed to me. When it was first released, drives were much more expensive. It's now more useful to repair a drive that is not backed-up for some reason, i.e. process control devices. Newegg lists 9 ATA laptop drives, an 80GB is $50, a 120GB is $55; 250GB is $90, 320GB is $95. Get a 5400rpm, not a 4200rpm.I figured SpinRite would need to be purchased. I was just HOPING it would be cheaper to go the SpinRite way as opposed to getting a new HDD. Thanks for searching on Newegg. Any manufacturer that would be better than others? Quote from: Puter Moron on April 11, 2010, 06:04:42 PM ...Any manufacturer that would be better than others? Any of them are good. Samsung is relatively new to the hard drive market. Hitachi bought the drive business from IBM. I do not favor Maxtor. Look for the best warranty. http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287#samsung Quote from: patio on April 11, 2010, 10:16:04 AM Agreed, You would need an electro-magnet or a rare earth magnet to affect the contents of a HDD.... Are we talking about running a magnet directly across the hard drive platters, or merely setting a magnet on top of the protective casing ?Quote from: EEVIAC on April 12, 2010, 09:34:14 AM Are we talking about running a magnet directly across the hard drive platters, or merely setting a magnet on top of the protective casing ? Since running a magnet across the platters directly would entail disassembly of the drive and therefore make the drive pretty much completely unreliable it stands to reason how such a method would be a good way of wiping a drive that one intended to use. Yes though, I am referring to the platters themselves. you would need a very powerful magnet- one at least as powerful as the one that set the particles polarity- (the write head) to scramble or change the ordering of the particles enough so they may not be properly read. perhaps if you leave a strong magnet sitting on the top of a hard drive for 8 to 10 hours you may find some slight file system issues that chkdsk can still resolve but aside from that you aren't going to be wiping a drive with a magnet at all.Quote from: BC_Programmer on April 12, 2010, 11:32:50 AM Since running a magnet across the platters directly would entail disassembly of the drive and therefore make the drive pretty much completely unreliable it stands to reason how such a method would be a good way of wiping a drive that one intended to use. I believe it's relative. Some drives, from what I gather will still work after the protective casing is removed, although I wouldn't consider the drive "reliable" at that point. As you know, even a drive protected by the case can still go bad, but is more reliable than one that's not covered. All drives fail at some point..Quote from: EEVIAC on April 13, 2010, 12:46:30 AM I believe it's relative. Some drives, from what I gather will still work after the protective casing is removed I know.... I've taken them apart before and used them, and they worked fine. I wouldn't consider them "reliable" simply because a tiny speck of dust or air currents in the outer air can CAUSE a catastrophic head crash.I've tried to take one apart before, but I didn't have the right type of screw driver and I stripped the heads on some of the screws.. I ended up using a pair of needle-nose pliers to bend the plate back and forth until it broke off, and I could access the inner goods.. Sorry, I thought I had thanked everyone for the help but I obviously did not. Thanks for the help.

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Quote from: Allan on April 10, 2010, 02:37:26 PM

It was intended as HYPERBOLE BC - Wow - can't get anything past you

heh, yah that's what it seems like doesn't it..

Sometimes when I post a suggested fix for someone and BC is looking at the THREAD afterward,
I wonder if I will pass the test. (you may be good, but can you pass the BC test) I'll have to ask the in-laws what they want to do. I'll also have to compare the price of a new HDD as to the cost of SpinRite (first time purchasers = $89).Quote

magnets don't affect hard drives.

Just ignore that remark.Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 10, 2010, 07:50:36 PM

Just ignore that remark.

Go ahead, try it. take a magnet, run it over a hard drive.

Nothing happens.

Agreed,
You would NEED an electro-magnet or a rare earth magnet to affect the contents of a HDD....Quote from: Puter Moron on April 10, 2010, 07:05:07 PM

I'll have to ask the in-laws what they want to do. I'll also have to compare the price of a new HDD as to the cost of SpinRite (first time purchasers = $89).

I didn't say it was free; I have a copy licensed to me. When it was first released, drives were much more expensive. It's now more useful to repair a drive that is not backed-up for some reason, i.e. process control devices. Newegg lists 9 ATA laptop drives, an 80GB is $50, a 120GB is $55; 250GB is $90, 320GB is $95. Get a 5400rpm, not a 4200rpm.I figured SpinRite would need to be purchased. I was just HOPING it would be cheaper to go the SpinRite way as opposed to getting a new HDD.

Thanks for searching on Newegg. Any manufacturer that would be better than others?
Quote from: Puter Moron on April 11, 2010, 06:04:42 PM

...Any manufacturer that would be better than others?

Any of them are good. Samsung is relatively new to the hard drive market. Hitachi bought the drive business from IBM. I do not favor Maxtor. Look for the best warranty.
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287#samsung
Quote from: patio on April 11, 2010, 10:16:04 AM

Agreed,
You would need an electro-magnet or a rare earth magnet to affect the contents of a HDD....

Are we talking about running a magnet directly across the hard drive platters, or merely setting a magnet on top of the protective casing ?Quote from: EEVIAC on April 12, 2010, 09:34:14 AM

Are we talking about running a magnet directly across the hard drive platters, or merely setting a magnet on top of the protective casing ?

Since running a magnet across the platters directly would entail disassembly of the drive and therefore make the drive pretty much completely unreliable it stands to reason how such a method would be a good way of wiping a drive that one intended to use.

Yes though, I am referring to the platters themselves. you would need a very powerful magnet- one at least as powerful as the one that set the particles polarity- (the write head) to scramble or change the ordering of the particles enough so they may not be properly read. perhaps if you leave a strong magnet sitting on the top of a hard drive for 8 to 10 hours you may find some slight file system issues that chkdsk can still resolve but aside from that you aren't going to be wiping a drive with a magnet at all.Quote from: BC_Programmer on April 12, 2010, 11:32:50 AM

Since running a magnet across the platters directly would entail disassembly of the drive and therefore make the drive pretty much completely unreliable it stands to reason how such a method would be a good way of wiping a drive that one intended to use.

I believe it's relative. Some drives, from what I gather will still work after the protective casing is removed, although I wouldn't consider the drive "reliable" at that point. As you know, even a drive protected by the case can still go bad, but is more reliable than one that's not covered. All drives fail at some point..Quote from: EEVIAC on April 13, 2010, 12:46:30 AM

I believe it's relative. Some drives, from what I gather will still work after the protective casing is removed

I know.... I've taken them apart before and used them, and they worked fine. I wouldn't consider them "reliable" simply because a tiny speck of dust or air currents in the outer air can CAUSE a catastrophic head crash.I've tried to take one apart before, but I didn't have the right type of screw driver and I stripped the heads on some of the screws.. I ended up using a pair of needle-nose pliers to bend the plate back and forth until it broke off, and I could access the inner goods.. Sorry,

I thought I had thanked everyone for the help but I obviously did not.

Thanks for the help.

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