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by gorajat69

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Hello all,

Sadly, my Maxtor drive in my Dell PC has failed. After the XP logo comes on where the blocks move from left to right, a blue screen quickly flashes and the computer rebotts, thus inhibiting me from ever logging on. Of course I have some valuable data that I need to recover. Can you give me any insight as to what I can do so that I can recover me data? Any help would be grealy appreciated.

(By the way, I have read on here that someone used chkdsk /r, but where would I type in that command?)

Thanks a lot!

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by hal 9000

The first would be to replace this drive with another drive and load Windows onto the replacement then shut down connect the original drive as a slave and then reboot and try to recover your off the Maxtor. If Windows attempts to run CHKDSK prevent this from happening and then when Windows Opens attempt to recover your data.

If that Doesn't work its really a job for a Data Recovery Company where they will pull the drive apart and read the data straight off the platters but this is very expensive to do so you have to decide if the Data is worth it.

No matter what you need to instigate a Disaster Recovery Program where you regularly backup your vital data.

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by mjd420nova

Try holding F8 as soon as it finishes hardware
checks, watch for the keyboard lights to flash, then push the F8. Or load the back up CD in the
drive and you may be able to load from that and
then recover your data. Any errors after that
and the drive is indeed FUBAR. I find very few
users are willing to pay to recover the data
lost.

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