Hardware Analysis - What A Problem?

Re: What A Problem?

john albrich — 2008-04-21T17:50:37-05:00

Definitely try other options before you give up and try to re-format the drive. However...

If it does get to the point where you decide to format the C drive, then before you do, you may be able to use another PC to copy the important database folders and files to another storage device. You can also copy other files and folder that may be important to you.

You would connect the "bad" drive as a slave or external drive to the second PC. If you are lucky, you'll be able to copy the database data without any problem.*

Then you would be able to format the drive without losing the data. When the "bad" drive is re-formatted, repaired, or replaced, you can then copy the database files to the repaired drive.

Of course, before you format the "bad" drive, also be sure you have all the drivers and recovery/install discs that you will need to restore the system to that drive.

*In fact, I would use a program like XXclone to make an image copy of the "bad" drive before you do anything else. To do that, you have to plug the "bad" drive into another Windows PC as a "slave" or external drive. Your target drive must be the same or larger size than the "bad" drive. All data on the target drive will be replaced by the contents of the "bad" drive. See XXclone for details.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/XXCLONE_d5534.html
http://www.xxclone.com/index.htm

Re: What A Problem?

DublinGunner — 2008-04-21T13:36:14-05:00

Dont format the drive until you know for sure that its an OS or software issue, especially since you will lose data that you need from the drive.

It could be RAM, HDD, or the PSU.

Try swapping RAM for new modules (or even test them 1 at a time) and also try replacing the PSU.

What A Problem?

Chronis Tsemplise — 2008-04-21T13:16:28-05:00

I have been handling a server from last 2 months.Actually this server as owner says got restart suddenly then when it started working suddenly all machine attached to it got dump error.After manually restarting the server the attached machine came back to life but server got out off order.Its getting restart continuously after every 10 seconds.It reaches till booting point then suddenly dump error screen flashes for a second or two then again it gets restart.
I am trying to solve this problem but am not getting where it is actually.So now I have decided to format its C drive,but problem is that office persons will loose there database as they didnt took backup from last week.
What to do?