hi, all.
i have a out-of-warrantly (2 yrs old only) dell inspiron 8600 laptop. when the user brought it to me, the fan was not spinning and the hd was making loud spinning noise.
it cannot be booted into windows. it gives a 'STOP 0X00000078' error which indictes a hd problem. i tried booting up with the Windows XP installation CD and went to Recovery Console to see if i can do a chkdsk. i was not prompted for the admin password. the result of a 'chkdsk c:' is THE SPECIFIED DRIVE IS INVALID OR THERE IS NO DISK IN THE DRIVE'. oh my, it sounds like the hd is not recognized.
i went to the BIOS and it does list there there is a 60GB hard drive!
ok, so i got this try before you buy GETDATABACK from runtime.org, so i made the bootable cd and but when i run it, it said 'YOU MUST HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE RIGHTS TO ACCESS LOGICAL OR PHYSICAL DRIVE'.
hmm... in BIOS, the admin password feature is disable.
is there any way to get access to the drive? if i get a laptop to ide hard drive adapter, and hook it up to a desktop as slave hd, will i be able to access it?
please please advise!!!
thanks a bunch in advance.
i have a out-of-warrantly (2 yrs old only) dell inspiron 8600 laptop. when the user brought it to me, the fan was not spinning and the hd was making loud spinning noise.
it cannot be booted into windows. it gives a 'STOP 0X00000078' error which indictes a hd problem. i tried booting up with the Windows XP installation CD and went to Recovery Console to see if i can do a chkdsk. i was not prompted for the admin password. the result of a 'chkdsk c:' is THE SPECIFIED DRIVE IS INVALID OR THERE IS NO DISK IN THE DRIVE'. oh my, it sounds like the hd is not recognized.
i went to the BIOS and it does list there there is a 60GB hard drive!
ok, so i got this try before you buy GETDATABACK from runtime.org, so i made the bootable cd and but when i run it, it said 'YOU MUST HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE RIGHTS TO ACCESS LOGICAL OR PHYSICAL DRIVE'.
hmm... in BIOS, the admin password feature is disable.
is there any way to get access to the drive? if i get a laptop to ide hard drive adapter, and hook it up to a desktop as slave hd, will i be able to access it?
please please advise!!!
thanks a bunch in advance.