I recently had something take out my drive – No boot

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skos

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I recently had something take out my drive – No boot

I have a boot loop (XP SP2). I caught either a virus or a mailware. Avast, SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes got rid of them but I still have issues.

I disable automatic restart on system failure but still no good.
I can not start in any of the normal, last know or in Safe Modes, I get lots of errors and it reboots.

I pulled the drive and attached it to another computer as an external. Now there is no file under my docs. Have you ever heard of this? I do have a current back up of my docs but there were a couple of files I do not have and I need.

When I look at the my docs file there is nothing there, not one file. Wow! Anyone had this or knows what the fix is?
Thanks
Steve
 
I also have the XP disks but when I try to use them the machine does not boot from the CD. I do have boot from cd 1st. Can I do anything to this drive while being connected as an external?
 
Try this first.

download and run the drive manufacturers disk diagnostic program and boot to the cd and let it run the extended test.

What brand of hard drive do you have?
 
download recuva and see if you can recover your files and forget about that drive. Buy a brand name drive such as Western digital, Seagate, Samsung.

Here is recuva.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Put the drive in another computer and run a deep scan on it.
 
johnb35 said:
download recuva and see if you can recover your files and forget about that drive. Buy a brand name drive such as Western digital, Seagate, Samsung.

Here is recuva.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Put the drive in another computer and run a deep scan on it.
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I know, I know about this cheap piece of poop. I have always bought Western digital, Seagate, Samsung and even Maxtor. This drive was like free with a mail in coupon. I have to say it lasted 5 years with the computer being on ALL the time.

I will try your suggestion, thanks
 
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