Full Computer Hard Drive ....Zap !
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Full Computer Hard Drive ....Zap !
Anyone ever hear of a Main Hard drive crashing because it filled up while it was trying to write something to it ?
Apparently that's what happened to mine this morning .
C
rive filled up and Zap.. everything was gone ..including the O/S.
Couldn't boot it up no how no way.
I lost TONS of stuff.
Apparently that's what happened to mine this morning .
C
rive filled up and Zap.. everything was gone ..including the O/S.Couldn't boot it up no how no way.
I lost TONS of stuff.
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Might be a good time to consider a slave drive, or external HD. You hadnt noticed that your HD was close to full Dennis? I dont know anything about the HD crashing when it fills up as I have never filled one up.
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I had a hdd go bad at work similar to that. It wasn't quite full, though.
Since it was a 'stand alone' pc and not supported by "I-T", I pulled the hdd and put it in another pc as a 'slave'.
Booted the pc and copied all of the data to another hdd.
I then did some 'spring cleaning' of the stuff that I truly didn't need like 'dated' files and jobs by burning them to DVD.
Since it was a 'stand alone' pc and not supported by "I-T", I pulled the hdd and put it in another pc as a 'slave'.
Booted the pc and copied all of the data to another hdd.
I then did some 'spring cleaning' of the stuff that I truly didn't need like 'dated' files and jobs by burning them to DVD.
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One way or another, Dennis, that HDD is probably recoverable, or at least the vast majority of it. When HDDs crash and won't boot, more often than not it's because there's a bad sector or six in the boot record, or something physically wrong with the HDD. One thing that would be near impossible is for them to erase all the data in an instant (only fire or a very, very strong magnet could do that).
Installing it as a slave to another HDD is the simplest way to try to recover data, and is often successful. BTDT--many times.
I've even heard of someone buying an identical model of HDD and swapping out the platens or other parts to get it to work.
Worst case scenario would be to send it to a data-recovery company, but that could cost anywhere from $100-$1500.
Jason
Installing it as a slave to another HDD is the simplest way to try to recover data, and is often successful. BTDT--many times.
I've even heard of someone buying an identical model of HDD and swapping out the platens or other parts to get it to work.
Worst case scenario would be to send it to a data-recovery company, but that could cost anywhere from $100-$1500.
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Originally Posted by jroehl
I've even heard of someone buying an identical model of HDD and swapping out the platens or other parts to get it to work.
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Can't believe the hard drive is that full..
Windows will start warning you at around 500MB that disk space is low. Also windows would start slowing down significantly with low disk space.
Probably just hit a bad spot on the disk and the drive got confused..
Try the slave option to see if it will read the disk.
You can also try Recover My Files software. Cost is $70 and has worked successfully many times for me..
Tried that twice on customer drives that were dead and would not spin.
Both times the drives spun up, but did not read the data..
Windows will start warning you at around 500MB that disk space is low. Also windows would start slowing down significantly with low disk space.
Probably just hit a bad spot on the disk and the drive got confused..
Try the slave option to see if it will read the disk.
You can also try Recover My Files software. Cost is $70 and has worked successfully many times for me..
I've even heard of someone buying an identical model of HDD and swapping out the platens or other parts to get it to work
Both times the drives spun up, but did not read the data..
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Either there was a bad spot of the file allocation tables got corrupted. Try some recovery software.
As far as swapping out platters, it can be done. You need to make a clean environment to work in which usually consists of building one out of a fish tank. You also need to make sure that you have identical models and BE CAREFUL. It usually isn't worth the effort unless the data is very important.
As far as swapping out platters, it can be done. You need to make a clean environment to work in which usually consists of building one out of a fish tank. You also need to make sure that you have identical models and BE CAREFUL. It usually isn't worth the effort unless the data is very important.
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Shouldn't physically damage the drive to be full, but eventually you run out of swap space, kind of like scratch pad memory to hold temporary files and movce things around. When you run out of space, the drive spends all it's time trying to shuffle data around and eventually it runs slow as heck or if you are lucky you get a message wqarning you or it just stops and remains in limbo.
I never quiet got so bad as to stop the drive but I have come pretty close.
Way back when PCs were first making the rounds, a good rule of thumb was to always have at least 10% of free space and occasionally do a defrag. Also you should do a disk cleanup every week or less. It is under Accessories, System tools, under the "Start" button at the lower left of the screen. Defrag actually prefers 15% free space to work right.
Good Luck,
Jim Henderson
I never quiet got so bad as to stop the drive but I have come pretty close.
Way back when PCs were first making the rounds, a good rule of thumb was to always have at least 10% of free space and occasionally do a defrag. Also you should do a disk cleanup every week or less. It is under Accessories, System tools, under the "Start" button at the lower left of the screen. Defrag actually prefers 15% free space to work right.
Good Luck,
Jim Henderson
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If you simply hit delete on a file it is not gone. It is simply erased from the allocation tables and those sectors are marked free. If you want to completely erase a hard drive, you need to write over every sector or physically destroy the drive. There are programs that will write 1s and 0s over the drive a few times to erase it.
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Originally Posted by bigdaddyII
Might be a good time to consider a slave drive, or external HD. You hadnt noticed that your HD was close to full Dennis? I dont know anything about the HD crashing when it fills up as I have never filled one up.
I have 4 HDD's on this computer
3 internal and one external.
Cdrive is 80 Gig
Fdrive 120 gig
Gdrive 80 gig
H drive 10 gig
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Practically all of the programs run off C drive
So much has to run off C drive that I think it just filled up.
The other possibility is a power failure and that threw it for a loop or a recently installed program that had something in it.
I was going to put it in the enclosure and try that but I was too busy trying to get the furnace back working
All I'm doing it reinstalling everything
Last edited by Mil1ion; Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21 AM.