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Unable to access boot; CMOS ok

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by tskowronski

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Have Pentium 133, Packard Bell; 680 Motherboard;
Ami Bios 1.00.12 DNOR; Windows 98SE. Recently updated anti-virus software. Upon re-boot, Monitor graphics a maze of colors; boot stopped; no error message. Re-booted. CMOS ok but continuous beeping at OS load. Removed hard drive and installed into another PC. Used V-Com
System Suite Hard Drive Utilities. Utility function passed hard drive functionality but noted FAT corruption. Program could not recover
FAT. Gave box to tech who couldnot recover boot
drive, but made slave drive bootable. Is there any way at this point to recover files on this
failed drive? Thanks for any suggestions.

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by lumberjack

When HD installed in other PC - was installed as a secondary drive or as primary?

Was the drive compressed?

by wlbowers

You will get suggestions for all kinds of recovery software.

Keep this in mind. If the information on this drive must be recovered, ie: one of a kind, research data, ect. DO NOT DIDDLE WITH THE DRIVE.

Contact a professional data recovery service. There are lots of them out there and they have machines called extractors that can recover what is on that drive.

They are not cheap. You will get a repaired drive with your information restored to it.

Just a thought

Good Luck Lee

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