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"Dead" hard drive.
This PC is PII/350/448/WinME. There are two HDs. Drive D is 40 Mb and uses
Disk Manager; it is now dead. One day recently I came in and found the blue screen (Of Death) with a message that Drive D could not be written to or read from (I don't recall the exact words). I have tried various rescue procedures (Norton Utilities, etc but nothing works. The drive is not recognized during boot. I have much data on this drive. Is this drive truly deceased? Are there any other things I can try before I replace the HD (D? My interest is in recovering the data. Peter. |
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Svend,
Forgive me to divert to different topic on harddisk. You have been a miracle worker for many people and may have some insights to this problem. I am trying to modify XPpro install boot floppy disks (source Microsoft) to include a firewire driver so the laptop can recognise external harddisk and install the OS there, instead of the usual internal harddisk which will be rebuilt from time to time in my case. Do you know if such schemes can work, and if so where to get a XPpro (non GUI) compatible driver? I have asked this in many newsgroups without response. Thanks for even thinking about it. David 23rd July 2003 (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen) wrote in message ... On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:02:29 GMT, "PVR" wrote: ... http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm do from boot to a DOS floppy: findpart ide fp.txt and insert (not attach) the output here, no matter what it shows. Before doing this, you can power down and verify that the disk cables are properly connected. |
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