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I too normaly have good luck with chkdsk.. I think this is the first time i have ever had it completly fail. It just seemed every sector was bad. I found it funny that the 120 gig drive was...

HEHE...i understand.

I personally was not willing to pay, but my client (client, for lack of a better word)was.
Spinrite seems like a nice little app. Courious what some of you more...

All righty ladies and gents,
Thank you sooo much for all the advice. I never did get the drive mounted with a Linux OS,
but after playing with Spinrite a bit i decided to try somemore recovery...

Thought i might also add that i have a good drive set as master and the bad drive as slave. Although very slow i Boot into windows with this set up.

Well i just tried Ubuntu
I can't get Ubuntu loaded while i have the bad HDD installed.
I wish i knew how i could do a print screen while it was trying to load. Since i dont know if that is...

I will be trying some more linux live cd's this weekend for sure..
I took a break from the drive to keep myself from throwing it out the window.
I'll keep you posted!
Thanks for all the help!

Ok i am back to working on this issue.. I got sidetracked getting the fresh install set up so the owner would atleast have a Computer again.



I have tried one live cd with out much luck, ...

I and not disagreeing but just to be sure....If i do a ctrl-alt-delete and look under the applications tab, and see that chkdsk.exe is "not responding" it could still be "doing it's job"?...

There are really no sounds from the drive besides the normal faint hum


I have tried checkdisk too with no results. It hangs after about 1 min. and when i check my proccesses is is not responding

Wow i should have proof read that before i posted.
Sorry for all the typos, i posted it in a rush. If you have any questions about my post let me know.
Also sorry for the double post :p

Hey AO'ers

I am really hopeing that someone here can hlp me out!
I am only so-so at best with computer repairs so bear with me.

I was ask to look at a michine that would not boot.
The OS was...