dead hard drive

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Hi all,

My friend tried to remove Windows 98 by removing the program through Control Panel. Since this time, he cannot boot from his hard drive. It was dual-boot with Linux.

But it gets stranger. When we hook up his hard drive to my computer as slave, Windows 2000 loads up to a certain point and then stops! Same result with a Windows 98 boot diskette, and even some utilities designed to recover data, like OnTrack EasyRecovery.

The only two utils which have successfully booted so far are a McAfee boot disk, and a Partition Magic bootable disk. With the first, we can see that the data is still on the hard drive.

My question is : what could possibly be wrong with this hard drive that would prevent *my* version of Windows 2000 from booting (not to mention those other diskettes). It's in slave mode, so it should not be reading the MBR or anything. Second question : what is a good utility which will let me repair this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

-Ian
please reply to : ihayes@globalserve.net

 

[Guest_imported]

Use something like Power Quest's DrivePro to do a partial low level format on the drive, then partition and format as if it was a brand new drive.


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