Second hard disk failure implications
Hi All,
I've got a 150Gb SATA drive as additional storage on my machine, with a half-dozen applications installed on it. It's started to fail in the last couple of weeks (seizes with a familiar 'clunk..tick' periodically. Had another Maxtor HD do this last year, but it has since behaved itself). The problem I've got is the installed programmes on it. Windows has them registered to that drive. Of course, if they're not there (I.e. drive cannot be accessed) it cannot uninstall them.
Am I limited to hand-editing the registry to get rid of them?
I've run chkdisk. On the one occasion it actually managed to complete a cycle it did identify a corrupted cluster, but the problem appears mechanical, and I fear I will have to replace the disk. Not in itself a problem, but I want to reinstall said software.
James