2hdd gone corrupt cant boot with them connected

ranjan2001

ranjan2001

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I have 2 old hdd, 1 3yrs old another 4 yrs old both have displayed some kind of error while I was reinstalling the os now i cant reinstall os on any of them bcoz they have some kind of error may be MBR is corrupt since these hdd were part of dual boot XP-win7.

I am now only left with windows7 & if i connect any of these disk then windows wont boot it ask for chkdisk which i allowed but it ran over 5 hrs & did only 2% so seems something is wrong.

The hdd has 2 partition i formatted the C with windows7 & till then everything was alright but when I tried installing the os it started the problem.

In system event logs i see many errors related to disk

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR2.

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1.

now i know of tools which can recover the data & check hdd for errors but they need to be installed & they will only work if i can boot with the faulty hdd connected with the OS, which I cant so what is the way out, is there a way using some live cd to scan the hdd & repair it?
 

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boot with your working hdd and install the software and repair it. Did you try chkdsk to see if there are any errors like bad sectors ?. According to the event log, i think there is some HW problem with your HDD. You have mentioned two hdds but u dint state the capacity, interface, etc., and which of these hdds is giving this error...
 
as far as data is concerned first secure it ( install ur hdd in someone 's other pc , let the pc boot by his hdd n back up ur data ),then try to do the chkdsk ( it must be some bad sectors or hardware prblms , if prblm persists send both to rma ), no option left :(..
 
Thanks guys,

I could not wait for the replies & tried on my own connecting the hdd to my friends computer it just connected fine so I assumed that the cables could be faulty, opened my system cleaned the dust reset the cables & "AlL iz well", no data loss just that the cable might be loose hence not reading the data nor letting me run chkdisk properly.

no bad sectors found n hdd
 
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