expertec Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Not my computer, my brother's. It freeze up, wouldn't Ctrl+Alt+Delete, so he switched it off, hoping it would boot up and scandisk, sort itself out. Anyway it wouldn't. It won't boot into windows, not even safe mode, it says it can't read drive C:, the hard drive is making nasty noises as well. Anything that can be done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Sounds like the bearings have gone. I'd guess that bearings can be repaired without losing the info.Check the voltage to it though, you never know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Crikey! Hope he's got a backup.Don't think there's much hope for it or a recovery of data - unless he wants to pay out huge amounts.A disc that won't do anything (like that one) would most likely have to be dismantled in clean room conditions. This alone is expensive and recovering data even more so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted August 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 Well, he's getting a new Hard Drive, and he's going to try and come over on sunday so I can have a go at it. Set up windows on the new drive and see if anything can be recovered from the old one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted August 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 He didn't have any backups, BTW.Installed new drive and windows, no probs.Connected up the old one, scandisk fixed a lot of errors. Sections of the windows folder were completely unreadable, that's why it couldn't boot up. Managed to recover a lot of stuff, photos, music etc. but the e-mails were gone unfortunately (Windows\Application Data was lost) :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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