How to fix Uncorrectable CRC or ECC error on read?

Cari (MS-MVP)

2005-12-29 03:37:19 UTC

You have all this data on your hard drive and haven't ever backed it up???

You might want to try the Hitachi utilities, but I certainly would never
trust that drive again and would replace it as soon as possible

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Q_21001037.html
(scroll down to the bottom to get the responses)
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

Post by Sebastien
Dear all,
My laptop is a XPS Dell, running WinXP SP2, HHD Hitachi 60GB. My computer
froze in an application and i had to manually restart the computer by
pressing the power button. When i restarted the computer it just went to a
BSOD Unmountable_boot_volume. I looked online to see if i could find a way to
fix this pb. I have tried the recovery console, chkdsk /r /p, fixboot but
nothing worked.
I booted my system with HDAT2 and ran a scan. Six sectors were identified
bad when i scaned the disk but it says "Uncorrectable CRC or ECC error on
read". Is there a way to fix this problem? I have all my work and really
important files from a thesis on my HDD. It would be a disaster if I was
losing everything.
I would really appreciate expert help. Thank you very much in advance.