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I have a small Eee PC 1050HA laptop, it's only 10" but ideal for trips. Unfortunately a few days ago It slipped from my hand and fell onto the floor. Luckily it was not from great height, and also onto a wooden floor, but it still got a good old whack. I was amazed to see that it still worked to be honest. The computer stayed on for many hours after that, and I used it for surfing. When I shut it down it would not start, after the boot it would show the "your PC was not shutdown correctly" screen, and whatever choice I took (normal start, last known etc...) it would then go to the XP logo screen for 15 seconds or so seconds, and then return to the previous screen. While the XP screen was on I could hear the hard drive do some ticking noise. I knew that mechanical hard drives don't like to be whacked, especially when they are on, so I was expecting the worst. And reading in an Eee forum it seems that they indeed don't like to be dropped. So I prepared myself to bring the computer to the shop and see if they will fix it (still had warranty, so maybe...). But I was pissed off as I did not back up the Eee for quite some while, and there was stuff on it that I needed
What saved me is a very clever brother in law, who suggested we try a Linux boot CD. The Eee does not have a CD drive, but I have an adapter and an old CD drive, and used that.
We downloaded the KNOPPIX boot from _ww.knoppix.org and burned a CD, and amazingly, it worked. It recognized the two partitions on the hard drive. One was OK, the other one it could not access. It was still great as I always keep the important stuff on the "empty" partition (not where the operating system is). After copying the files onto an external USB drive (which was recognized without a problem by the Knoppix) we decided to try to fix the hard drive.
We goggled and found _ww.ultimatebootcd.com, it's a boot CD with a whole lot of tools on it. I can't remember exactly which tool we used, but it we tried some and found one that scanned the hard drive, and fixed the bad sectors. There were quite a lot of bad sectors, but they were all fixed. It was quite slow, so I let it run during the night. We then let "the most powerful Tool" scan the disc because we liked the name. After that declared that the disc was fault free I simply rebooted the PC and ta-ta!! it all worked nicely.
We then ran the normal Windows check program, it found a couple of corrupted MP3 and I think a swap file. after that w done a defragmentation and that's it.
So, maybe this information will help you someday
TG
What saved me is a very clever brother in law, who suggested we try a Linux boot CD. The Eee does not have a CD drive, but I have an adapter and an old CD drive, and used that.
We downloaded the KNOPPIX boot from _ww.knoppix.org and burned a CD, and amazingly, it worked. It recognized the two partitions on the hard drive. One was OK, the other one it could not access. It was still great as I always keep the important stuff on the "empty" partition (not where the operating system is). After copying the files onto an external USB drive (which was recognized without a problem by the Knoppix) we decided to try to fix the hard drive.
We goggled and found _ww.ultimatebootcd.com, it's a boot CD with a whole lot of tools on it. I can't remember exactly which tool we used, but it we tried some and found one that scanned the hard drive, and fixed the bad sectors. There were quite a lot of bad sectors, but they were all fixed. It was quite slow, so I let it run during the night. We then let "the most powerful Tool" scan the disc because we liked the name. After that declared that the disc was fault free I simply rebooted the PC and ta-ta!! it all worked nicely.
We then ran the normal Windows check program, it found a couple of corrupted MP3 and I think a swap file. after that w done a defragmentation and that's it.
So, maybe this information will help you someday
TG