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hard drive failure
acewarlock - thanks for the comments. I was able to locate a boot cd and also discovered the ac power cord needed replaced which I had not considered. BIOS battery appears fine. Running chkdsk /r at this time and at 50% - we'll see what happens as the afternoon progresses. It appeared the...- datadign
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hard drive failure
I appreciate the feedback. Tech just phoned and indicates after further diagnostics 'several bad sectors' on the drive and cannot recovery data. I'm headed to pick it up.., hate to give up yet as I foolishly have data I didn't back up that I'd hate to too easily admit defeat to recovering. Is...- datadign
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hard drive failure
I have a HP pavillion 7195 that crashed when my dsl & land line suddenly ceased working causing my O/S to no longer load. (sysconfig error) PC was given to me, do not have original start up O/S disk. Runs Windows XP Home Edition. I can get in to the recovery partition though did not have all...- datadign
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