Spartak@CPH
02-05-2006, 05:22:34
Right my HDD died over the weekend. I booted into windows there was a missing DLL and when I rebooted I got the dreaded Boot Disk Failure message.
Dug out the old WIN2K disk and tried to repair - no dice.
Bought new HDD and reinstalled windows. The BIOS recognises the old HDD - (which ios now a slave) as does device manager but there is no sign of it otherwise in Windows. The setup utility for the new HDD (Same make) can't find a partition table on there and offers to format. Eek, no thanks just yet.
So, I'm guessing either the Master boot record is fucked or the Partition table is fucked. Presumably the latter means the drive is dead. How can I tell which is which to decide whether I spend the next few years trying to extract the data from ths disk or just bin it and move on?
Dug out the old WIN2K disk and tried to repair - no dice.
Bought new HDD and reinstalled windows. The BIOS recognises the old HDD - (which ios now a slave) as does device manager but there is no sign of it otherwise in Windows. The setup utility for the new HDD (Same make) can't find a partition table on there and offers to format. Eek, no thanks just yet.
So, I'm guessing either the Master boot record is fucked or the Partition table is fucked. Presumably the latter means the drive is dead. How can I tell which is which to decide whether I spend the next few years trying to extract the data from ths disk or just bin it and move on?