Saving Hard Drive

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Neva

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My original problem was that when I turned on the computer, I get some message "corrupt. cannot access c:/windows/system32/...". I went online; found a solution. It has something to do with the registry hives.

Anyways, the solution called to access the recovery console. Now, a new problem has appeared. When I turn on the computer with that hard drive installed, the computer (not sure what component), makes a really loud weird noise. It's like a sreeching sound.

Well, I put in my Windows XP CD to try to access the recovery console and it won't allow me. I get some message that says "examining 76274 MB disk 0 at on bus 0 on atapi". This occurs whether I try to format or access the recovery menu.

Honestly, I do not care about the hard drive. I just want to recover the important data that is stored on it. Is there anyway to access the information on the hard drive?
 
cRABu

cRABu

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no there is no way YOU can access that data. but if you have REALY IMPORTANT data on that hdd, take it to a data recovery company for service. This type of service is quite expensive.In order to preserve your data on the hdd do not power it up! Every time you power up your hdd you are damaging it. That scratch sound is a "needle" scratching a disk(where your data is stored).
 
sg1

sg1

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Data recovery companies ARE VERY EXPENSIVE so I would plug up the drive as a slave and get the data off that way onto another HDD and work my way through what I needed to keep myself. Seriously bud, - if the data is REALLY that important then maybe consider a specialist company otherwise D.I.Y ;)
 
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