Unrecoverable problems

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MrNah

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Got a computer from my parents that wouldn't boot up. So i figured I would just throw in the windows cd, go to repair. type in chkdsk then if all is good type in fixboot and it'd be alright...

This was a no go. I tried chkdsk and it came up saying The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems. I then tried Fixboot and it says "Fixboot cannot find the system drive, or the drive specified is not valid...

I tried 2 other things. Hooking up my IDE & S-ata usb to the hard drive and plugging it into my computer however it would only show the 120gig partitioned drive where the music and movies were stored. So I tried one of my versions of linux and again all that was on the hard drive was the one partitioned G drive with 120gb's on it.

Is all this information gone. They would like there pictures, documents and other files off of the hard drive and I'm not 100% sure how to do it.

Any suggestions are welcomed. Please fully explain and don't put in short form.

Thanks a lot,
MrNah
 
MrNah said:
I tried chkdsk and it came up saying The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems.
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You need to Fix those problems first

From the Windows Setup Disc Recovery Console (ie the first "R" prompt you come to)
Type in: CHKDSK /R and then press Enter key
Once the CheckDisk has finished repairing any faults, restart and try Repair (second "R" Prompt) again
 
I'm in it now and once I type chkdsk /r it says "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems."
 
That's right it will do a 3 or 4 part scan (automatically) and fix these issues
Has it done that? It usually takes around 5mins to do (this can vary)
 
naw its instant. as soon as i type in chkdsk /r it says the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems and thats it. no waiting. nothing but that phrase. ive restarted it 2ce and it says the same thing.
 
Oh I signed off sorry.

Anyway, try these ones (one is bound to work ;))
By the way you pressed "1" and signed into the "Administrator" account, in the Recovery Console, I hope?

CHKDSK *: /R (Note: there is also one space after "CHKDSK" and one space after the colon ":" )
CHKDSK *: /P
CHKDSK *: /F

One is bound to work ;)
 
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