Hard Disc Recovery?

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Thu May 27, 2004 1:21 pm

uh, okay, big problem. when trying to install a game, the computer crashed. it was only then bbotable in safe mode, and I tried a system restore. since then, my computer now claims that it cannot read from the hard drive. now I can think of a number of fixes, but there's a lot of stuff on the hard drive that I don't want to lose - any practical suggestions on how to get a working computer and my old data?

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Thu May 27, 2004 2:15 pm

What version of Windows are you using?
Have you tried any hard disk checking utilities? (scandisk, chkdsk in2K/XP)

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Thu May 27, 2004 2:22 pm

I use XP, but it's not booting right now so I haven't checked since I defragged two days ago.

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:04 pm

buy a second drive, get xp up and running on the new drive, add the old drive as a slave, and then pull data off of it.

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:10 pm

yeah, I decided I should do that. I got the new hard drive today. if the worst happens, at least I'll have a new, slightly better hard drive...