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MovedGoalPosts · 09-11-2011, 23:20

Unfortunately, if it's giving you the hard disk failure at boot up then you are in trouble. Chances of it staying stable for any lenght of time to extract information from it is low.

IDE Hard drives are now going to be quite old, and relatively low capacity. SATA was already taking over some five years ago. A replacement IDE connector disk could be a challenge.

Are there any checker utilities available from the drive manufacturer you can download, and brun to a CD boot disk you can then run? You can also try setting a chkdsk option. Perhaps you can beeot to safe mode or command prompt instead of the full windows?

09-11-2011, 23:20	#6
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: Physical hard drive failure. Unfortunately, if it's giving you the hard disk failure at boot up then you are in trouble. Chances of it staying stable for any lenght of time to extract information from it is low. IDE Hard drives are now going to be quite old, and relatively low capacity. SATA was already taking over some five years ago. A replacement IDE connector disk could be a challenge. Are there any checker utilities available from the drive manufacturer you can download, and brun to a CD boot disk you can then run? You can also try setting a chkdsk option. Perhaps you can beeot to safe mode or command prompt instead of the full windows?