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Corrupt drive - can I recover?

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janderson622

Technical User
Aug 10, 2001
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US
Hi,

I've done physical diagnostic checking and my drive is Ok. Windows 2000 somehow became corrupt on the drive.

The symptoms were the machine would just boot thru the manufacturer logo and a cursor would just blink in the upper left corner.

I did system diagnostics, the drive is fine.

I booted up (using the floppies made from the CD) and got to the "Recovery" part, tried the "Automatic" and that failed.

Tryed the manual, when I do a 'dir' from the dos prompt I get an error like "Failed due to enumeration error" (or something very similar to that).

And I get an error on a 'chkdsk'.

My biggest "whoops" is no ERD.

Is my hard drive hosed? Should I just format and forget about the data on there? Or is it possible to somehow recover that information?

Would an ERD from another computer work?
Could I edit an ERD from another computer?

Thanks in advance,


--John


 
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