Question on bad Hard Drive

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In article <QyWJc.34$45.7826@news.uchicago.edu>,
amilchik@remthis.cavtel.net says...
> I've been having problems with a Hard Drive and I was
> hoping someone here would have some insight. My main
> drive is a WD 100 GB ATA, split into 2 partitions, C: (30gb)
> and D: (70gb). Suddenly a few days ago, I couldn't boot
> into Windows XP - it would get through the loading screen
> then the computer would automatically reboot. When I
> booted off another drive I found I could get to and back
> up all the data on D: but every application shows that C:
> is dead and won't even read the file system.
>

You may have already taken this into consideration, but I might as well
ask anyway. What o/s did the other drive that you booted off contain?
Was just wondering if it was not XP and that the original C drive was
formatted using ntfs which can only be read by a 2000 or XP o/s.

Alternatively, you could try booting from your XP cd, if you have one,
and then running the recovery console to check the integrity of your C
drive.
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Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt (More info?)

Try a program called GetBackData for NTFS or GetBackData

you can download and try them before buying to see what is able to be
recovered.

And, did you do a BiOS update to cause the problem.

the_gnome

"Shep©" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:3iijf01k9t7cath063f7q15uuje5tttlcf@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:06:08 GMT As another one bit the dust Aaron
> <amilchik@remthis.cavtel.net> wrote :
>
> >I've been having problems with a Hard Drive and I was
> >hoping someone here would have some insight. My main
> >drive is a WD 100 GB ATA, split into 2 partitions, C: (30gb)
> >and D: (70gb). Suddenly a few days ago, I couldn't boot
> >into Windows XP - it would get through the loading screen
> >then the computer would automatically reboot. When I
> >booted off another drive I found I could get to and back
> >up all the data on D: but every application shows that C:
> >is dead and won't even read the file system.
> >
> >I'm almost positive the problem is physical because the drive
> >makes funny noises when spinning up and also reports SMART
> >errors for low raw speeds. My question is: since the partition
> >barier is virtual, it is frustrating that I can read the D
> >partition freely but cannot access the C partition. Are there
> >utilities people can suggest which will read files off of the
> >drive while ignoring headers and partition information? All
> >of the utilities I have tried won't even recognize that there
> >is a format on the and refuse to even start reading it.
> >
> >Thanks for your ideas,
> >Aaron
>
> Before hardware,try here,
> http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm
>
> HTH
>
>
>
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