Fix-it Saturday

**Real_Wolf** · 6th April 2009, 12:22

lol, thats incredibly dodgy there jafa.

I have the fun one atm, which I still haven't gotten round to fixing. One of my harddrives, is partitioned so that one partition is running windows, and the other just has files. Now, the second partition is missing. It shows up on the computer management, but it won't let me assign it a drive letter or access it. The actual HDD is fine as the other side is actually running windows, its just vista.

Needa take it out and plug it in somewhere else

**Slyer** · 6th April 2009, 12:33

How important are the files?
Try running a chkdsk c: /r from command prompt and let it restart
That will do a full check of everything, it fixes a lot of problems.

**motorbyclist** · 6th April 2009, 14:37

Originally Posted by Slyer

And yeah, I will trade all my computer knowledge for bike know how.
(Come over, I'll fix your laptop and you fix my bike, we'll make a day of it.

)

laptop is fine, it's my desktop hdd that is dead (and diagnosed)

time to call seagate for some data retieval!

**macros87** · 6th April 2009, 20:50

i would help you with your electricals slyer! if i had ANY "electrical know how" which i really dont i must admit... in fact i dont have very much of the "know how" in many areas

**Real_Wolf** · 6th April 2009, 22:45

Slyer, tried that, no success. The wording is roughly "the management screen is not up to date, please refresh, reopen, or restart"

It shows up, right size, but it won't let me assign it a drive letter. I'd rather not reformat it, because it has stuff I want on there. Which I'll get off. Maybe next year

**Metalor** · 8th April 2009, 07:18

I can help you with data retreival. Just need another hard drive to retreive it to. Getdataback is an awesome program. USed it a number of times when windows decides it doesn't want files on a drive anymore.

Oh, is there a fixit coming up anytime soon? Ordered some parts, but I'm thinking my front sprocket might need a bit of extra help getting off....

**Slyer** · 8th April 2009, 09:06

I've also got this program that can recover a whole partition that has been deleted, onto the same drive.

**Real_Wolf** · 8th April 2009, 11:41

yah, i've just been lazy. If I pulled it out, I could plug it into my brothers PC or my dads, and just copy the whole hdd accross, reformat that section and plug it back in

**macros87** · 12th May 2009, 20:15

we should have one of this again... mostly because i have a lil brake problem that needs to be sorted so i can pass a wof! so we all keen? yes?

**Real_Wolf** · 12th May 2009, 23:18

we had one last week where we messed with the accross's clutch.

I'm all good for one though, still need to get round to changing the oil (and probably the filter too), so need someone who actually knows what their doing.