How to read and recover data from laptop harddisk with parameter incorrect CRC error?

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How to read and recover data from laptop harddisk with parameter incorrect CRC error?
My dell inspiron 320 gb SATA on Vista OS (5v 1a) was working fine. All of sudden there was too much hardisk activity (continuous light) and PC hanged. I restarted It and it kept on starting windows and then booted itself and came to a dos message that the OS is not present. select OS drive letter and press enter.
I reset once more and it started vista but didnt go to start screen - it encountered a blue screen for a fraction of a second and booted again. During further trials it went as far as the login screen and when shutdown took over an hour.
I tried later to access it via same laptop, via external drives and external enclosures for SATA. Drive letter appears but no further activity. When try to access drive either it says the drive is not formatted or parameter is not correct or data error (CRC).
I think once it is detected fully/readable, data transfer shouldnt be a problem but i am not reaching to that stage.
Please help me recover data!!!!!

Answer 1

You will need to recover the data using something like asoftech data recovery. http://www.asoftech.com/adr/



I've had to use it many times in the past but it will require that you plug that drive into another system as an external drive or slave drive and run the software from there. It will rebuild the drive and hopefully recover the files.



Good luck.

Answer 2

Try running ChkDsk on the drive, this will 'fix' any bad sectors which can be a cause of a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) failure.



Right click the drive and choose'Properties'

Click the 'Tools' tab and then 'Check Now...'

Tick/check both boxes and click 'Start'



If that fails or you can't access it try this...



You will need to get hold of an install disk for your operating system (XP/Vista/Win 7), borrow one if possible, and boot with that (any one will do as long as it's the same version eg:Home/Pro/Basic/Premium etc.).



Note: To boot from your Windows CD/DVD, the BIOS settings on your computer must be configured to do this. On start up keep tapping either F1, F2, F10, (Be Aware that some manufacturers use F10 for system recovery!) Esc, or Del, to enter the BIOS set-up. Look for "Drive configuration", "Boot order" or similar and make the CD/DVD drive the first boot device. Save settings and exit.



Insert the Windows CD/DVD into your CD/DVD drive, and then restart your computer.

When you see the "Press any key to boot from CD" message, press a key to start the computer from the Windows CD/DVD.





Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD/DVD drive if you are prompted.

When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press 'R' to start the Recovery Console.



If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console.



When you are prompted, type the Administrator password. If you don't know the administrator password, there probably isn't one so just press Enter/Return.

At the command prompt (C:\>), type



CD\

and press Return/Enter. Type



X: (Change X for the drive in question)

and press Return/Enter. Type



chkdsk /r



(note the space between chkdsk and /r)

and press Return/Enter.

When the scan finishes, re-start.



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Answer 3

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Answer 4

It sounds like your hard drive is going bad. You need to make an image of the drive. An image is basically an exact copy.



Try using BootMed (Just search for it). It has a tutorial for making an image out of a corrupt hard drive.

Answer 5

have you tried hookiing it up inside an actual desktop tower? get some power flowing through it might make it work better and its most probably dead but you may be able to recover it using a recovery program dont know if it will work but you can always try

Answer 6

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