Thread: If your going to buy a new hard drive
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Old 09-23-2006, 06:47 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by notabook
Man... I had the SAME thing happen with the Deskstar 60GB! I managed to recover all my data though by using a program called HDD Regenerator (took about 24 hours for it to finish, but it brought back all the sectors except for about a dozen). All the other deskstar drives I had were utter crap as well, but the 60gb dtla-307060 seemed to be the worst. I don't store anything critical on it anymore but I do keep all my MAME games on there, no harm if that stuff gets deleted.
Hmm, just thinking, the only thing I'd trust the DeathStar with these days would be expendable data, such as swap and temp files. Not sure if it's worth installing since it's IDE (ATA100 or ATA133 I guess?)...

BTW does that HDD regenerator thingy work on SATA drives?
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