Repairing a hard disc

Post by **faceless** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:16 pm

I bought a 300gb HD a few weeks ago to work as an external in a USB box. The problem is that it's suddenly stopped working and now says 'the directory is corrupt' when I try to look at it.

So, I got the NTFS recovery program from www.diskinternals.com and it seems to work, but I'm not up for paying for it, so if anyone knows a similar freeware program I'd appreciate it. I've looked about, but there's so much guff to wade through.

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:29 pm

spin rite -- I'll look it up ...

https://isohunt.com/download/29343463/spinrite.torrent

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

should do the trick

I downloaded the torrent and nod says it's clean ...

Post by **faceless** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:33 pm

nice one, I'll give it a go - over the past couple of weeks I'd been filling the thing up with all sorts of movies etc so it would be a bugger to have to start again.

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:02 pm

what version is diskinternals ... ?

spinrite looks very complicated ..

https://www.restorer2000.com/

https://w16.easy-share.com/1700017096.html

Post by **faceless** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:29 pm

I couldn't get that download working from that site - it keeps timing out. Any chance you could put it on humyo?

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 6:11 am

I'll leave it there until you say you have it ...

gone ...

Post by **faceless** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:20 am

cool, got it now