Hard drive failure after power outage

[fobunited]

I had my computer on, but wasn't running anything. Then the power went out, and when it went back on, I turned on my computer. I have 2 harddrives, and one of the harddrives has 2 partitions, one for Windows XP Pro and one for Windows 2000. I usually run windows XP, and when I booted it up, XP didn't work. It just boots to a black screen and there's a weird clicking noise from my computer. After about 2 minutes, it says there's some dll file missing from the windows directory. I then booted up my computer from Windows 2000. Before I got into Windows, it ran a check on my Windows XP partition. It took about 2 hours and it just showed that pretty much all the file sectors on the disk were unreadable. After I got into Windows 2000, I tried to access my Windows XP drive, but Windows 2000 just said that the drive isn't formatted. Now, Windows 2000 runs incredibly slow and I have a weird clicking noise coming from my computer when it does anything with any of the hard drives. Is there any way to restore my harddrive because there's a lot of information on the Windows XP drive that I would like to keep? Thanks!

 

[nightowl17]

sounds to me like hard drive failure , A power surge is a deadly thing to a hard drive you may try and reformat&install as far as saving anything I wwould not count on it

 

[jeremybarker]

Don't boot the pc up anymore than you have to from this point on! Everytime you do, your chances of recovering any data lessens. That weird noise could be the read arm of your hd touching the disks and destroying data. If you have another os to hook up the hd as a slave, try that. If not, invest in a data recovery program. There are enough of them out there, a search on google will provide you with plenty of choices.