TDS 7104 Data error reading drive C - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / repair

author: Johnny10
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2023, 08:36:02 pm
content: TDS 7104 Data error reading drive CI haven't worked on these TDS Oscilliscope units since 2017. :-(Is this error about a corrupt data file and I need to reinstall OS and Tek software?Anyone have a cloned Hard Drive for this machine?I did run ScanDisk but it gets hung up after a few minutes.Thanks,Oops, BL440ZX Motherboard 500Mhz Celeron Processor 512MB system Ram

author: fzabkar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2023, 11:03:25 pm
content: You should try to clone the drive with a tool that understands how to deal with bad sectors or bad heads.HDDSuperClone is now open source. The author has produced a Live CD and a GUI. This tool will clone the easy sectors on the first pass and then try to read the difficult sectors on subsequent passes.Avoid Scandisk or any Microsoft tool. MS tools are more concerned with maintaining the integrity of the file system, and they will often sacrifice your files to this end. Also, Windows tools will keep hammering a bad sector for several seconds, thereby risking total failure of the drive.

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 10, 2023, 12:55:59 am
content: could mean your hdd is beginning to create some problemsi never had any problems with microsoft scandisk, but i would say its pretty basic indeedTime to backit up or clone it ...

author: zerowatts
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 10, 2023, 01:12:27 am
content: If it boots, try to clone that hard drive as soon as you can. It might be starting to fail. If it has a USB port use a sata to usb adapter, and clone it with Hiren's Boot CD (my recomendation, as it has plenty of tools you can use (Acronis True Image, etc.) and even a lot of hard disk utilities (partitions, MBR, data recovery, etc.).If you can't boot from a CD, or it does not have a USB 2 port, take out the disk and use another computer to clone. I am guessing it has an IDE hard drive, so if you decide to go this way you will also need an IDE to USB adapter.After cloning (to a SSD presumably, currently not very expensive and much more fast and reliable), you can use a IDE to Sata interface adpater to install it on your scope!

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 10, 2023, 09:24:12 am
content: You have some IDE Disk on module (DOM) and some pata ssd drives too, with no trim functionality

author: Johnny10
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 10, 2023, 02:55:23 pm
content: I'll work on it this weekend.I know back in 2017 I cloned the drive direct onto another drive I guess I should of done one of those image backups so I would have had a copy for just such a case of hard drive failure.Thank you for the advice.

author: Johnny10
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2023, 05:28:15 pm
content: Thanks for getting me back in the zone.Cloned the old PATA 6GB Hard Drive onto a SSD.Took a bit of remembering, the fact you need jumpers set on these old drives. as it was set to #0 drive with no jumper included.Cloning went way faster than I imagined, only took 15 or 20 minutes and it was done and shutting down.This is a Win 98 Celeron 500Mhz processor with 512MB RAM Start-up after memory check was 1 1/2 minutes.Memory check was 1 minute 40 seconds.