Finally I tried a software called "Data Rescue PC" by RecoverSoft and it's able to locate the hard drive. But I haven't yet tried to recover the files, as I didn't have a spare hard drive to copy to. Anyway, that's a big improvement over other softwares I tried. Thanks again...
This PC is running windows XP. I'm not aware of any boot loaders running. Also, It doesn't make any strange noises.
One interesting thing is, as long as the bad hard drive is present, the computer won't even load the windows setup disk in the CDROM drive. CDROM spins but nothing happens.
I...
Boot Sector virus? Hmmm... No wonder the computer was behaving awkwardly for some time now. It always failed to shutdown cleanly (have to power down by pressing the power switch)... Free AVG anti-virus failed me...
Anyway, Can someone please tell me how to fix the boot record, if the PC won't...
Yesterday, my PC failed to boot and I figured that the hard drive has gone bad. So, I removed that hard drive and put a new one, and reinstalled windows with the help of recovery disk. Now that the computer was running fine, I tried to recover data from the bad hard drive by adding that in slave...
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