re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot Friday, December 5, 2003 at 11:16 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jeff (8 messages posted) Zed, Thanks for you response. I agree this Disk has crashed. The Windows Repair Install doesn't not work either. It's unable to write to the disc. So i'm convinced the Drive has crashed. At startup, i can hear it spin, then stop - that's it. Though i'm convinced I still have a chance to recover data. Thanks for the Win 98 DOS Boot Tip. I've never done this before, and have a question or two about it. 1). Can is use a Win 98 SE CD to boot the machine, and get to the DOS prompt as you suggested? 2). Can you point me to any DOS for dummies guide on how to proceed with getting my files? I'm sorry, but i'm a beginner at this one, but excellent at following instructions. 3) Regarding Disk Utilities. My next step is to use some 3rd party tools to see If I can resurrect the drive to get the data off. 4) going to the store tomorrow to get a new Drive! Again, thanks for the info, look foward to more. Best, JeffTronics On Friday, December 5, 2003 at 9:41 pm, zed rivas wrote: >your hard drive has probably really crashed. try to boot to dos(a win98 startup >disk could help) and save your documents you want. Run a non-windows disk diagnostic >to double check disk integrity. If you use the repair windows feature (not the recovery >console in the first few screens of the windows install program,) the system will >not write over your user created documents but you will lose some settings and shortcuts. > >the motherboard warning could be and probably is right. you can do a format and >identify the bad clusters, but your better off with a new drive. don't but compaq >again. > > Written in response to: re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (zed rivas: Friday, December 5, 2003 at 9:41 pm) Responses to this message: re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (C K: Friday, December 5, 2003 at 11:37 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Jeff: Fri, Dec 5, 2003, 9:37 pm) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (zed rivas: Fri, Dec 5, 2003, 9:41 pm) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Jeff: Fri, Dec 5, 2003, 11:16 pm) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (C K: Fri, Dec 5, 2003, 11:37 pm) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sat, Dec 6, 2003, 9:46 am) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Jeff: Sun, Dec 7, 2003, 1:43 am) re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot (Jeff: Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 5:12 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum