SMART HDD May Fail

Hi Matt,

The data has already more or less gone after HooT followed aweston's advice earlier in the thread. I was more concerned with the two CD's appearing not to work (still don't have a clue about the WD Diags issue) but the XP setup appears to be a faulty drive.

All roads are pointing in one direction though, a new HD.

 

In the OP he mentions that he just reformatted it and attempted a reinstall which failed, prompting his post here. Certainly the idea of my post was to highlight that a lot of people neglect to delete the partition or do a full format when these problems arise, causing them to reappear in very short order.

 

all right, Thank you all for your input, I greatly appreciate it!

 

My apologies aweston, I didn't mean to imply your advice was incorrect I was only highlighting that the data was unlikely to be retrievable

 

Should I call off the nukes? lol

It's fine.. I didn't take it that way.

Although, now that you mention it.. Data can be retrieved as much as 30 layers deep in certain (albeit exceptional) circumstances. I now shred my camera cards after every use because I ran one of my tools on one about a month ago. I recovered pictures from it that I deleted 8 years ago....this after numerous formats and reuse.