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Originally posted by Pho3niX@12 October 2003 - 19:37
hmm you said window crashed ... this is a good sign ;) actually it prove the hard drive is not totaly death ... it can read some information but then what's needed to continue booting is corrupt.
A hard drive can be *death* at many diferent places maybe some sector are corrupt, the MBR (MASTER BOOT RECORD) is corrupt or even critical file system information are corrupt (the File Alocation Table on fat16,32 volume or the equivalent i cant remember the name on NTFS)
if such a thing happen there will be utility to ban those sector on the hardrive surface so no file are written on it ... you migth at the worst lost one GB (that's REALLY A WORST CASE AS EACH SECTOR ARE LIKE 5ko)
the only thing that cannot be corected is actual physical damage to the pin (the little thing that read the HD surface ) or other electric conponment... this is most likely impossible under normal HD condition ...
then came the fact that so much hard drive *died* on this machine .... if you consider that a death hard drive is an hardrive that make window crashes then i'll quote one of my pal msn nick
"If only Billy had a buck for each time wind0z crashes.... oh wait he does "
i had 6 blue screen of death in half an hours trying to install and hp all in one printer under xp :S with alwais usefull error report such as IRCL_NOT_GREATER_OR_EQUAL
My point is there is so much thing that can crash window .... maybee your hardrive were 100% ok but window crashed becauz of a complete deferent reason and when crashing it corrupted your hard drive
Now the real question is do you wish to be helped or you only there to whine ... as long as you stick to your point of my hard drive are death and we cant recover them ... then you wont be able to recover them for sure
Now you might be rigth ... your computer migth be an *HARD DRIVE KILLER* however its very not probable that your hard drive are not recoverable ... try changing your ram and flashing your bios if he's upgradable
NOW from the description of your problem i can see you are more from a gamer than a programer you migth not bother to check your harddrive becauz you dont know about hard drive checker and such
you lucky .. a while ago i discovered the world of data recovery ... or how to pack the most expensive program on a cd
I'go check fro some software that can help you and hopefully provide a direct download link if you wish to cooperate ;)
Windows XP setup crashed. Not windows.