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| HDD crash, nothing works. Any more ideas? |
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| #1 By 76525 (130.76.64.15) at Wednesday, April 04, 2007 02:40:05 PM |
| My machine crashed unexpectedly last week with an "error loading OS" message after the BIOS boots up. I took the HDD into work and my computer there was able to see the second and third partitions on the drive (used for data storage), but not the first. I paid a bunch of money for some software that was able to find my files on the first partition and copy them off of there. So, now I'm trying to see if I can recover the drive anyway. I brought it home, and ran Recovery Console from XP Pro boot disks. (Recovery Console from an XP CD wouldn't work, because it couldn't find the Windows folder anywhere. Therefore, it wouldn't even give me the option to start Recovery Console. For some reason, however, the boot disks didn't have that problem.) From there, I ran: > fixmbr > fixboot > copy [cddrive]:\i386\ntldr c:\ > copy [cddrive]:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\ > bootcfg /rebuild All of those commands seemed to work fine except for the bootcfg command. It wouldn't run, saying something about the disk has one or more unrecoverable problems. I tried to run chkdsk /r on it, and it says the same things. If I try to boot to the HDD now, it says that NTLDR is missing, but NTLDR and NTDETECT are right there on the drive. I also copied a boot.ini to the root directory. If I type "dir", it shows me those three files and nothing else. I don't know what else to do. Any ideas? I know I can reformat and reinstall Windows, but I'd really like to try to recover the system alltogether, if I can. Thanks! |
| #2 By 655 (165.125.144.17) at Wednesday, April 04, 2007 03:05:30 PM |
| Based on everything, it soundsd like you might need to delete all partitions and reinstall everything. One thing that I'd be concerned over is if the HD is actually damaged, and might need replacing. ---------------------------------------------- Work is for people who don't know how to surf Gateway Performance 1800 - P4 1.8gz, 1gig RAM, nVidia 5200; SB Live Value; Windows Vista Business, Photoshop CS2, Nikon D200 and D100 |
