Hi all:
I hope you can help - I looked through many threads here, but didn't see something that is similar to my issue.
I pulled a 2TB WD Green HDD from my WHS because it was causing problems (apparently green drives are not good in servers - lesson learned), but want to use it in my desktop. Desktop is XPS630, running Vista Home Premium 32bit. I installed the HDD in the second bay, and on boot CHKDSK started, which is fine. However, it came up with "File Record Segment XX unreadable", and started from Segment 32, let it run all night, and it was still on 904 of approx 12,000.
Obviously going to take a while.
I cannot have my machine just doing this for the next few days, so I hard rebooted, and canceled CHKDSK on boot, and tried CHKDSK from within vista but it did not work (it asks me to do it at boot). I am running CHKDSK now from the elevated command prompt, and it is doing the same thing as above ("File Record....").
My question is, is this normal? Is the HDD fried (it's only a couple of months old)? The server used it as extended storage, so there are some files on there that I would like to salvage. If I let this thing run for a few days (at least I can keep using my desktop), and it fixes it, great. If not, perhaps boot with Knoppix Linux and recovering the files will work?
Any advice would be most appreciated. Thank you.
I hope you can help - I looked through many threads here, but didn't see something that is similar to my issue.
I pulled a 2TB WD Green HDD from my WHS because it was causing problems (apparently green drives are not good in servers - lesson learned), but want to use it in my desktop. Desktop is XPS630, running Vista Home Premium 32bit. I installed the HDD in the second bay, and on boot CHKDSK started, which is fine. However, it came up with "File Record Segment XX unreadable", and started from Segment 32, let it run all night, and it was still on 904 of approx 12,000.
Obviously going to take a while. I cannot have my machine just doing this for the next few days, so I hard rebooted, and canceled CHKDSK on boot, and tried CHKDSK from within vista but it did not work (it asks me to do it at boot). I am running CHKDSK now from the elevated command prompt, and it is doing the same thing as above ("File Record....").
My question is, is this normal? Is the HDD fried (it's only a couple of months old)? The server used it as extended storage, so there are some files on there that I would like to salvage. If I let this thing run for a few days (at least I can keep using my desktop), and it fixes it, great. If not, perhaps boot with Knoppix Linux and recovering the files will work?
Any advice would be most appreciated. Thank you.
