Best way to analyse a corrupted hard drive?

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Induna123
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Joined: 17 Jul 2012, 13:21

Best way to analyse a corrupted hard drive?

#1 Post by Induna123 »

It's a 500GB IDE PATA HDD with one partition. The C: still works and boots Windows XP but the D: is not showing up in "My computer".

Is it best to scan this drive set as master on the primary channel or have it as a slave drive on the secondary channel?

What I'm asking is does it make any difference?

seitec200
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Joined: 06 Aug 2013, 16:49

Re: Best way to analyse a corrupted hard drive?

#2 Post by seitec200 »

It shouldn't make any difference, unless you suspect there might be a problem with your I/O and thus the slave channel might have a problem.

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