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Ploforia
Jan 10 2005, 05:48 PM
Rapco - I would definitely make sure you 'mount' the drive on a computer running a NTFS platform such as NT, 2000 or XP. Preferably the platform this drive would have been formatted with in order to really rule out the physical damage issue. It sounds like the drive should at least be intermittent, from what you describe. When mounted on the correct platform - if there is truly a physical problem you, I would expect the drive to befunctioning intermittently. For instance perhaps you might be able to read the contents of the drive but have errors when you try to access the actual files or just some of the files.

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rapco
Jan 11 2005, 04:34 AM
Well, after spinrite nothing change... and i mounted the damaged HD on a win xp pc, and it was recognized in windoews, only not accesible...

i ran a lot of diagnostic programs and they all show the phisical parts are ok

Could u send me the link to get Knopix, i'm gessing, linux=free, Knopix too???

It's not intermitent is permanent!!!!

the reason a haven't give it a low density fromat is because i'm afraid i might loose ALL MY SUPER ULTRA HYPER MEGA iIMPORTANT DATA!!!!, for the moment (because my main board was damaged like two weeks later mad.gif i haven't have the oportunity to work on it), i'm gathering data recovery software to try to get my data back!

Thanks, and please keep posting!!!!

PD: I found a page where they know how to solve this problem, but they charge like 40 bucks... blink.gif PEOPLE ARE WAY TOO SELFISH!!!!

altough, if i could get my hands in 40 usd i'll pay them sad.gif

and YES, it's very very common, search google and see for yourselves

 

 

 


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(G)patrick lorio
May 16 2009, 10:51 AM

I have the same problem

what I did

 1) installed windows 7

2)found my windows xp 64 bit cd and started to install that, all was going fine it finished prep for installation

3) it asked me to restart my computer and I clicked yes, it did that and then when it came back on I got that error

what I think it is

I think it was an overlap of the OS and it screwed up the harddrive.

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(G)Chas C
Oct 27 2009, 11:30 AM

Happened to me also. This is too much of a coincidence that these errors happened when upgrading to Windows 7, so it must be an incompetent installation process.

Coupled with the abysmal attitude of Microsoft as regards the upgrade paths I am seriously considering migrating away as soon as it becomes a viable option.

Microsoft - you treat your customers, or perhaps you call them suckers, badly and the Windows 7 fiasco must surely rebound on you sooner rather than later.

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(G)Steven
Oct 30 2009, 02:12 AM
Read Disk Error Windows 7
A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del To

I also am having this problem in windows 7. It only happens to me when one of my external hard drives is plugged in. 

Another "funny" thing is that the installation process corrupted one of my secondary externals (seriously? how does that happen).

 I believe strongly that this is windows 7 related. Keep us all updated if anyone finds a fix.

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