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zenarif · 07-16-2007, 05:36 AM

Hi. Recently my Maxtor 40gb IDE hard disk which had two partitions, one for the system files which is (C:), one for storage (D:), crashed while I was transferring a large amount of important data from My Documents in C to D:. The error was "Data Error Cyclic Redundancy Check." After that I could not open XP anymore.

So, I plugged the HD as a Slave to my brother's computer and changed the Security settings so that I could access it and recover the files. But in the process, my house suddenly experienced a power outage. During reboot, the computer could not access my HD saying the sector is unreadable. The system partition was unreadable, but the storage partition can still be accessed.

How can I recover the data in My Documents now? Or is it even accessible? Thanks.

07-16-2007, 05:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
zenarif Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3 OS: WinXP	recover crashed hard disk data Hi. Recently my Maxtor 40gb IDE hard disk which had two partitions, one for the system files which is (C:), one for storage (D:), crashed while I was transferring a large amount of important data from My Documents in C to D:. The error was "Data Error Cyclic Redundancy Check." After that I could not open XP anymore. So, I plugged the HD as a Slave to my brother's computer and changed the Security settings so that I could access it and recover the files. But in the process, my house suddenly experienced a power outage. During reboot, the computer could not access my HD saying the sector is unreadable. The system partition was unreadable, but the storage partition can still be accessed. How can I recover the data in My Documents now? Or is it even accessible? Thanks.