I have definitely learned a valuable lesson about consistently backing up hard drives. Is there anyway to recover this drive, or is the partition table f'ed beyond repair. I don’t have any production drives that can be taken offline for 2 weeks for maintenance. And to make it worse, the drive and entire system are offline running in DOS mode for the entire time.
#Spinrite 6 boot drive full
"can't get drive parameters for drive 02" However, it takes Spinrite 6 a full two weeks to do a full maintenance run on a 2TB SATA drive. "Error reading partition table drive 01 sector 0" "InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 06: with calculated values 948-75-32 instead of 956-128-32" I tried one last straight boot from the hard drive in the DV2 and got three consecutive messages on the same boot screen. SpinRite recognizes everything but this hard drive. The computer picks up the drive in Safely remove hardware, but fails to recognize it in my computer. I've tried all the suggestions from the other thread(except setting SATA to IDE mode since I don't know where to go in the BIOS). I was dumb enough to have only done a light backup since the first fail, and I really need the rest of the contents off this drive, especially school docs from the past three weeks. About three weeks later I got the BSOD and "operating system cannot be found" message. The hard drive failed the next day or so, but then began to work perfectly again. Long story short my laptop fell off my counter. Figured I might get some more responses from here. I made a thread on this a few days ago in the HP forum. Is there anything I can do to salvage the hard drive or computer without having to send it in? What is the most likely problem with the hard drive? Is there anyway to retrieve information off the hard drive since I didn't bother backing up the last three weeks of documents since the fall? Since the BSOD occured there has also been a strange clicking sound from the hard drive. I've been furiously trying to get it boot up again, but it boots to the log in screen and freezes.
#Spinrite 6 boot drive install
The first boot after the BSOD came up with a "Operating system cannot be found" error. SpinRite 6.0 lets you install make any writable drive bootable using an option on its main menu, as noted above by Travis.
For a day or two after that event the hard drive experienced two or three random failures, but everytime it failed it would boot normally right after that.įor the past three weeks since that fall, the laptop has been working perfectly normal, but last night I randomly got the blue screen of death. My eight month old DV2-1024 fell off my counter(about a 3.5ft drop). I'm not sure if this thread would be more suited to the OS forum.