First things first, I use Windows XP Professional on a core2duo e6300, 1 gb ram, nvdia 7900gto. The culprit of this story is a Western Digital 250gb hard drive. This story may be a little lengthy. haha.
I have had a rather odd occurrence that happened out of the blue. I was watching a movie using media player classic and when I went to pause it I accidentally hit the "slow motion" button, and this caused the entire computer to lag like I had a p-33. This is something that always happens when I misclick that so I usually just end the process (using task manager) and the computer is fine. This time it was worse than usual so I just hit the reset button and went about my business.
This is where the problem begins. Right after that reset, I would get into windows and after about 20 minutes receive a "blue screen of death" as it's often called with no real explanation. This soon started happening in 15,10,5 minutes until eventually the computer got a blue screen at the Windows XP startup screen that says UNMOUNTABLE_DEVICE. Wonderful...
So the next thing I did was boot from the Windows CD to take a look at the partition, and apparently it reads it as unpartitioned space, with the full 250gb of free space. Okay that's odd, because for some reason this "unpartitioned" drive has no trouble getting to the first windows boot screen, it's recognized in BIOS. I tried using my other hard drive(the one I am on now) to boot from to try to save the data from the WD250(the messed up one), but if I try to boot both drives at once it hangs at the first Windows XP screen and it almost seems like the two are conflicting. Maybe because both are supposed to be boot disks, both are labeled "C:", but I don't want to perform any formats if someone knows how I can save the data from my WD250, without losing the data on this hard drive I'm on now (by formatting it).
This whole things is very odd, and I need to get that data on my WD250 back badly, it is irreplaceable.
I have had a rather odd occurrence that happened out of the blue. I was watching a movie using media player classic and when I went to pause it I accidentally hit the "slow motion" button, and this caused the entire computer to lag like I had a p-33. This is something that always happens when I misclick that so I usually just end the process (using task manager) and the computer is fine. This time it was worse than usual so I just hit the reset button and went about my business.
This is where the problem begins. Right after that reset, I would get into windows and after about 20 minutes receive a "blue screen of death" as it's often called with no real explanation. This soon started happening in 15,10,5 minutes until eventually the computer got a blue screen at the Windows XP startup screen that says UNMOUNTABLE_DEVICE. Wonderful...
So the next thing I did was boot from the Windows CD to take a look at the partition, and apparently it reads it as unpartitioned space, with the full 250gb of free space. Okay that's odd, because for some reason this "unpartitioned" drive has no trouble getting to the first windows boot screen, it's recognized in BIOS. I tried using my other hard drive(the one I am on now) to boot from to try to save the data from the WD250(the messed up one), but if I try to boot both drives at once it hangs at the first Windows XP screen and it almost seems like the two are conflicting. Maybe because both are supposed to be boot disks, both are labeled "C:", but I don't want to perform any formats if someone knows how I can save the data from my WD250, without losing the data on this hard drive I'm on now (by formatting it).
This whole things is very odd, and I need to get that data on my WD250 back badly, it is irreplaceable.
