UR R26R.5, VW Golf R
Hi guys,
I dropped my laptop yesterday afternoon after switching it off. Not a heavy drop, but obviously enough to cause damage.
I switched it back on later in the evening and the Windows XP splash page was on for around 2 minutes. It then skipped to scandisk and took another 3 or 4 minutes to get to tell me :
Folder \i386 has bad clusters.
Bad clusters removed from folder.
0 percent complete
It then stook on 0% for another 20 minutes. The hard drive was working, but very very slowly, as I could hear it every few seconds.
I decided to just reboot and start over, b****cks to the scandisk.
So I skipped the scan and it went into Windows. However, everything is so slow. Its perhaps 50 - 100 times slower than usual. Infact, I dont think I got a single operation done other than load Windows Explorer, and even then it took f*cking ages. Once again, you can hear the hard drive working away, but its only every 20 seconds or so and the noise stops after about 2 seconds.
I have a lot of information on the hard drive (sound files, movie files, Pro Evo patch files, application installation exe's etc. etc.) which I can see is still in tact as everything seems fine except the dire, dire speed.
Is there anything I can do other tha take it to a computer shop and get them to install a new hard drive and somehow transfer all this data onto the new drive. Is that possible at this awful speed its running at? How would I go about doing that myself? Transfering the files I mean? What sort of cable do I need? Can I fix the hard drive speed myself or is it f*cked?
Cheers, and sorry for the boring write-up.
:dapprove:
I dropped my laptop yesterday afternoon after switching it off. Not a heavy drop, but obviously enough to cause damage.
I switched it back on later in the evening and the Windows XP splash page was on for around 2 minutes. It then skipped to scandisk and took another 3 or 4 minutes to get to tell me :
Folder \i386 has bad clusters.
Bad clusters removed from folder.
0 percent complete
It then stook on 0% for another 20 minutes. The hard drive was working, but very very slowly, as I could hear it every few seconds.
I decided to just reboot and start over, b****cks to the scandisk.
So I skipped the scan and it went into Windows. However, everything is so slow. Its perhaps 50 - 100 times slower than usual. Infact, I dont think I got a single operation done other than load Windows Explorer, and even then it took f*cking ages. Once again, you can hear the hard drive working away, but its only every 20 seconds or so and the noise stops after about 2 seconds.
I have a lot of information on the hard drive (sound files, movie files, Pro Evo patch files, application installation exe's etc. etc.) which I can see is still in tact as everything seems fine except the dire, dire speed.
Is there anything I can do other tha take it to a computer shop and get them to install a new hard drive and somehow transfer all this data onto the new drive. Is that possible at this awful speed its running at? How would I go about doing that myself? Transfering the files I mean? What sort of cable do I need? Can I fix the hard drive speed myself or is it f*cked?
Cheers, and sorry for the boring write-up.
:dapprove:
