Harddisk Problem Solution

1: Overcoming the MBR Damage

In the disk, there is a file called the MBR (Master Boot Record). This file is located on the first byte and the first sector of your hard disk; really just the first. Understandably, this is the MBR marker disk presence. If the analogy, the MBR is like a map that leads the BIOS to find hard drive.

But many things can cause the MBR is damaged, such as a virus or accidentally formatted. If that happens, the operating system lost the signpost marked by the emergence of the message Operating System not found or missing operating system on the screen.

The solution of this problem is to restore the MBR file. The most common way is to make the process of recovery from the Windows CD. Way, boot to the Windows CD and select Repair (by pressing the R button) and enter the Recovery Console. After that, type fixmbr command to restore the MBR file.

For Windows Vista, the same concept although the procedure is slightly different. First, boot into Windows Vista DVD and select Repair Your Computer. When the System Recovery Options appears, select Command Prompt. After the Command Prompt window appears, type Bootrec.exe and press Enter.

If the Windows CD either gone anywhere, you can use the application of the Rescue Kit 9.0 Paragon Express artificial. This is a free application that has diverse functions, including restore the MBR. This application is bootable, meaning can be burned to a CD and a source of the boot process. When the system showed signs of loss of MBR, you have to do is boot to the CD containing this Rescue Kit. After that, select Corrector Boot menu, follow the procedures that have been determined, and the case lost MBR should have been resolved.

Rescue Kit 9.0 Express can be downloaded for free here (46MB) or you can get on DVD InfoKomputer June 2009 edition.

2: Windows Severe Damage

Cases around the hard drive more often than Windows on the hard disk is badly damaged so that we can not enter into it. In such cases, the only solution is to reinstall Windows. The problem, often in the hard disk or partition containing Windows is still there are many important files that must be saved. Then, how to take it?

Use a bootable applications, and can explore (browse) a file on disk is problematic. Again, you can use the Disk Rescue 9.0 Express which we discuss in the first part of this serial article. Very easy to use, you simply follow the wizard (the wizard) from the menu File Transfer Wizard. Unfortunately, these free versions can not move these files to CD / DVD. So, you must copy the files to a flash or external hard drive.

However Rescue Disk Express can only work from the CD. If you prefer the process of the flash, use a portable Linux operating system that can boot from flash (live-USB). Almost all Linux distributions have a portable version, but it should be noted that the mounting process (introduction of hard disk contents) often must be done manually. Therefore, we recommend using Puppy Linux distributions because these distributions do the automatic mounting. Size Puppy Linux is also just 100MB, which fits in the flash is small size.

Rescue Disk 9.0 Application Express can be free Donwload here (46MB), while Puppy Linux you can get here (100MB). If you do not want to bother downloading, the application is available on DVD InfoKomputer June 2009 edition.

3: Health Watch Harddisk

In all PATA and SATA hard drives on the market today, is already embedded features SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) that specifically detects the hard disk's health.

In the SMART parameters were about 30 hard drives health, ranging from temperature, spin-out time, to seek error rate. From this data could be inferred if the hard disk on your PC is still healthy, or already ill.

To read this SMART data, we need specialized applications such as HD Tunes. The main functions of this application is measuring the speed of disk, but can be to read the SMART information, too. HD 15 Tunes will read SMART parameters, with 3 types of results, the current, worst, and the threshold. The definition of each outcome is:

· Current: current state of your hard disk

· Worst: the smallest number ever found in the previous generation hard drives

· Threshold: the limits below which shows the damaged hard drive

· Data: raw data from sensors or counter

. Tip: Visit this site to find out the definition of each parameter.