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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 23:02:17, virobik@MAPS.onr.com wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I hope that a there are still a couple of people online who aren't at 
> Warpstock.
> 
> I seem to have lost the ability to access my H: drive (the last 
> partition of my second drive, formatted D: maint; G: Games; H: Backup 
> (ironic, isn't it?)). When rebooting today, I heard a series of 
> clicks, but assumed that it was my cd-rom. Now, I have to imagine that
> somehow the head on my second drive is messed up. 
> 
> I tried running CHKDSK on the H: drive from the maintenance partition 
> and received a SYS0026: The specified disk cannot be accessed message.
> CHKDSK worked on each of my other drives.
> 
> Should I try reformatting the partition or should I use Partition 
> Magic to wipe it clean and add it to the G: drive or should I just 
> transfer the info from G: onto my other harddrive and get the darned 
> thing out of my computer before it causes more problems?
> 
> The Drive is a WD 1.2 gig and is probably 3-4 years old.
> 
> thanks in advance for your help,
> 
> Kevin
>

Posted and mailed.
 
My recommendation would be to get your data out, and then try to 
format, re-partition, and maybe low level format the drive.  During 
all this, try to observe weird noises.  If you get any failures, the 
drive's hosed and is going to be a paperweight real soon.  Whatever 
you do, start by getting the info off of G.  If the heads have 
crashed, you don't have very much time left to get your data out.

A clunking noise, right?  It could be terminal.

Jack Troughton   ICQ:7494149
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