y2keable
Member
yesterday my computer crashed all of a sudden, when i switched it back on the monitor displayed this after the POST:
searching for boot record from floppy:..not found (normal)
searching for boot record from CD-ROM:...not found (normal)
searching for boot record from IDE-0...OK (normal)
invalid system disk (ok, now i'm worried)
insert correct disk in the drive and press any key to continue
i'm guessing my hard drive has suffered a catastrophic failure. its my boot drive, everything[/] is on that drive and i'm in the sh!t without my computer. i'm only able to use it now because i have a small, 5 year old IBM lappy hard drive that i've been able to stick in and install windows on. i also have the failed hard drive in one of my raid card ports so i can try to read it. the drive has 2 partitions, one of them works but the main partition (with the OS on) gives the message "drive F is not formatted. format now? y/n" when i try to open it.
strangely, when i start the computer in DOS, i can access the files on the hard drive and brows through the all the directories with no trouble. i've even been able to retreive most of the data using "xcopy" in MS-DOS but its really time consuming. when xcopy comes to copy most of the files, i reterns a message "file path not found". does this mean the file that its trying to copy is damaged? is there any way to get all the files back that i want or is the hard drive compleatly cabbaged??
thanks for any help
Jayson
P.S. since i don't have a spell checker at the moment, i'll leave it up to one of you to tell me how many mistakes i make =)
searching for boot record from floppy:..not found (normal)
searching for boot record from CD-ROM:...not found (normal)
searching for boot record from IDE-0...OK (normal)
invalid system disk (ok, now i'm worried)
insert correct disk in the drive and press any key to continue
i'm guessing my hard drive has suffered a catastrophic failure. its my boot drive, everything[/] is on that drive and i'm in the sh!t without my computer. i'm only able to use it now because i have a small, 5 year old IBM lappy hard drive that i've been able to stick in and install windows on. i also have the failed hard drive in one of my raid card ports so i can try to read it. the drive has 2 partitions, one of them works but the main partition (with the OS on) gives the message "drive F is not formatted. format now? y/n" when i try to open it.
strangely, when i start the computer in DOS, i can access the files on the hard drive and brows through the all the directories with no trouble. i've even been able to retreive most of the data using "xcopy" in MS-DOS but its really time consuming. when xcopy comes to copy most of the files, i reterns a message "file path not found". does this mean the file that its trying to copy is damaged? is there any way to get all the files back that i want or is the hard drive compleatly cabbaged??
thanks for any help
Jayson
P.S. since i don't have a spell checker at the moment, i'll leave it up to one of you to tell me how many mistakes i make =)