Help on dead hard disk

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Scott

My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the
first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like to
save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there any
possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Scott
 
If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the drive
has failed?

What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot into
safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?

While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
cycles...) or a corrupted OS.

To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)

Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.
 
If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the drive
has failed?

What error messages are you getting?  What happens if you try to boot into
safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?

While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
cycles...) or a corrupted OS.

To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
computer.  You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)

Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.






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Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.
 
If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the
drive
has failed?

What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot into
safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?

While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
cycles...) or a corrupted OS.

To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)

Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.






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Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.

Don't be two quick to dump that drive. Boot up with the XP cd and run the
repair console. Run FixBoot and FixMBR and try to boot into windows again.
It should do a chkdsk on bootup. then do a defrag.

Hope this works for you.
 
Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.

Don't be two quick to dump that drive. Boot up with the XP cd and run the
repair console. Run FixBoot and FixMBR and try to boot into windows again.
It should do a chkdsk on bootup. then do a defrag.

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I know what my reponce states is true! May 2007 I suffered a drive
crash due to a MFT corruption. I replaced the drive then and I have
been running since. Now in March 2008, I decided to try to
"resurrect" my "defunct" drive and got myself an enclosure. No matter
what I tried, with tools delivered with Windows XP, drive never listed
the files. I then tried several disk / file recovery tools and found
a few that will list my files. Due to the 'free" file recovery
limits, I managed to recovery some small files.
 
LV,

My reply is as below:- Any more suggestions?

LVTravel said:
If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the
drive has failed?
Click to expand...

After the running blue dots within a rectangle block, it goes into a blue
screen for a second or so. Then come on the boot menu to select boot to
safe mode or other modes. It cycles whatever I select.
What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot into
safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?
Click to expand...

After I select boot to safe mode, it runs until this statement,
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows system32\Drivers\Mup.sys. It
automatically reboot after a short period of time.
While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
cycles...) or a corrupted OS.
Click to expand...

The system says there is no hard disk attached.
To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)
Click to expand...

The Windows does not detect any hard drive attached.
 
Jasper said:
Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.
Click to expand...

I did a search it seems I have to buy one. Any recommended one?
 
"smlunatick" <[email protected]> 在郵件
中撰寫...
Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.

Don't be two quick to dump that drive. Boot up with the XP cd and run the
repair console. Run FixBoot and FixMBR and try to boot into windows again.
It should do a chkdsk on bootup. then do a defrag.

Hope this works for you.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
Click to expand...

I know what my reponce states is true! May 2007 I suffered a drive
crash due to a MFT corruption. I replaced the drive then and I have
been running since. Now in March 2008, I decided to try to
"resurrect" my "defunct" drive and got myself an enclosure. No matter
what I tried, with tools delivered with Windows XP, drive never listed
the files. I then tried several disk / file recovery tools and found
a few that will list my files. Due to the 'free" file recovery
limits, I managed to recovery some small files.


I hope I am also a lucky one. Which disk recovery sytem did you find
workable?
 
Scott said:
LV,

My reply is as below:- Any more suggestions?



After the running blue dots within a rectangle block, it goes into a blue
screen for a second or so. Then come on the boot menu to select boot to
safe mode or other modes. It cycles whatever I select.


After I select boot to safe mode, it runs until this statement,
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows system32\Drivers\Mup.sys. It
automatically reboot after a short period of time.


The system says there is no hard disk attached.


The Windows does not detect any hard drive attached.
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See the responses from Jasper.

Also, if you have not, please use the same name on each post, it is getting
confusing. I don't know if I am talking to Scott or smulnatick or the same
person.

You are experiencing a blue screen on bootup and the system is set to
automatically reboot on error. This needs to be turned off.

If you ever get into safe mode turn off the auto restart.

To disable the automatic restart, System>Advanced>Startup and
Recovery>Settings and under System Failure uncheck "Automatically Restart".


If you get the automatic restart set properly and get a stop code go here to
find out more information
http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

If the Stop Error mentions a file, then this could be a driver issue.
 
See the responses from Jasper.

Also, if you have not, please use the same name on each post, it is
getting confusing. I don't know if I am talking to Scott or smulnatick or
the same person.

You are experiencing a blue screen on bootup and the system is set to
automatically reboot on error. This needs to be turned off.

If you ever get into safe mode turn off the auto restart.

To disable the automatic restart, System>Advanced>Startup and
Recovery>Settings and under System Failure uncheck "Automatically
Restart".


If you get the automatic restart set properly and get a stop code go here
to find out more information
http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

If the Stop Error mentions a file, then this could be a driver issue.
Click to expand...

LV,

I do not understand your query about the name and I always use the same
name.

I downloaded two system recovery programs: Stellar Phoenix Windows Data
Recovery & Recovery My File for trial test. The result was nothing detected
on my desktop pc and caused my pc to re-start removing frozen state. It
seems my Fujitsu MHV2100BH hard disk is dead permanently. Very bad!!

Scott
 
"Jasper" <[email protected]> $B:_M97o(B








I did a search it seems I have to buy one. Any recommended one?







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You can try TestDisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

However, I was not lucky with it.


I did file my files with File Scavenger: http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm

I believe it also you to "freely" recover files <= 5MB.


Other utilities usually offer you a "free" scan and you need to buy
the license to retreive your files.
 
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