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Intermittent Inaccessible Hard drive

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by syntheasia

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Hi all,
I have WinXP Pro running on a laptop and since yesterday it is intermittently giving error on boot stating inaccessible hard drive, sometimes it boots up slowly and crashes again with the memory dump blue screen. I have very imp data which I have tried backing up during the brief "up times" with no luck. I have tried using ERD Commander but it is of no help as it cant find the hard disk to begin with. I suspect boot sector virus but am not sure. I need the data off the hard disk. Please help

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by syntheasia

Thanks. I opened the hard drive tapped it lightly inside few times and now I am backing by data off it. Dell sent a replacement drive which is 18 gig more than I have and my data is securely off. cant ask thigs to be better :-) Thanks all of you

by curacao_dejavu

take the harddisk out , and install it on another machine (with antivirus protection ) as a secondary harddisk and copy the data.

That will work unless the harddisk is fysically bad.

Leopold

by syntheasia

Thanks. I opened the hard drive tapped it lightly inside few times and now I am backing by data off it. Dell sent a replacement drive which is 18 gig more than I have and my data is securely off. cant ask thigs to be better :-) Thanks all of you

by syntheasia

Thanks. I opened the hard drive tapped it lightly inside few times and now I am backing by data off it. Dell sent a replacement drive which is 18 gig more than I have and my data is securely off. cant ask thigs to be better :-) Thanks all of you

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