Hi, I have a SATA hard drive that's pretty obviously dying. It's mostly dead. I've accepted that but I want to access it for 1 minute to try to copy some tax files. Please help.
Problem start: Computer would hard freeze. No mouse, no response. SpeedFan suggested the video card was on fire, so I replaced it. With new video card, HDD was giving me SMART status bad. Replaced old video card. No more SMART status bad, but can't boot Windows or access the drive.
The drive (E: ) :
Shows up in BIOS 95% of the time. The other 5% a quick restart or jiggling a wire will get it to show up.
Will not boot Windows 7: 10 minute boot, then it crashes and reboots. Same for "last known configuration"
Will not boot in safe mode: loads some files, hangs on CLASSPNP.sys, crashes and reboots.
"Repair your computer" black screen for 5-10 minutes, then just a white cursor on black screen for hours.
Using "Repair your computer" off a boot disk will be very slow, give me the background and white cursor, still doesn't go anywhere.
I have another old drive with Windows 98 installed. I can boot to that (takes 15-20 minutes) and the bad drive will show up in My Computer. If I double- or right-click, windows explorer hangs. After 10 minutes or so it sometimes gives me "Drive is not formatted." Obviously I decline formatting.
If I open command prompt in Windows 98 and type e: it will give me "Cyclic redundancy check"
If the drive would stop showing up in BIOS, I would give up and throw it out. ANY chance of accessing the drive? I have a massive external drive and would love to type "copy *.* e:"
Thanks for any help.
Problem start: Computer would hard freeze. No mouse, no response. SpeedFan suggested the video card was on fire, so I replaced it. With new video card, HDD was giving me SMART status bad. Replaced old video card. No more SMART status bad, but can't boot Windows or access the drive.
The drive (E: ) :
Shows up in BIOS 95% of the time. The other 5% a quick restart or jiggling a wire will get it to show up.
Will not boot Windows 7: 10 minute boot, then it crashes and reboots. Same for "last known configuration"
Will not boot in safe mode: loads some files, hangs on CLASSPNP.sys, crashes and reboots.
"Repair your computer" black screen for 5-10 minutes, then just a white cursor on black screen for hours.
Using "Repair your computer" off a boot disk will be very slow, give me the background and white cursor, still doesn't go anywhere.
I have another old drive with Windows 98 installed. I can boot to that (takes 15-20 minutes) and the bad drive will show up in My Computer. If I double- or right-click, windows explorer hangs. After 10 minutes or so it sometimes gives me "Drive is not formatted." Obviously I decline formatting.
If I open command prompt in Windows 98 and type e: it will give me "Cyclic redundancy check"
If the drive would stop showing up in BIOS, I would give up and throw it out. ANY chance of accessing the drive? I have a massive external drive and would love to type "copy *.* e:"
Thanks for any help.