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Hello all...
i got a problem with a computer. A friend of mine bumped it over, and it appearantly hurt teh HD. whne it coems up it goes to the Win load rutine, but then it comes up with a message: "Error data raeding from hard disk: Abort, Retry, Fail?"
i checked the connectors fromt eh HD to the motherboard, and also got into setup but couldnt find anything to diagnose the problem.
If you could suggest any way to fix this, I would be very grateful
thank you for your time

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have you tryed putiong in a nuther hard drive to see if it can read that one?
if not try ripping out your friends HD and put it in to your pc.
or there may be a problem with one of the cables linking the HD to the Motherboard.
so try swoping cables..

*Oi dood there wouldnt be any problem with the mother board would there???*

Nightfalls_Girl

Hello,

What is the OS? Version? SP?
What type of hardware and MB?

Have you backued up recently?

Of course you probably already shut the system down and tried to power-up again. Power off for at least 10 seconds then power up again?


Check the BIOS that the HD is set to bootup first

To get your data...

I might suggest that you demote your current "master" HD to slave and place another HD in service as Master drive to retrieve data.


It seems odd that just a "bumb" would cause such trouble. Mayabe a SMASH or hard hit to case?

Good luck

DarkCarniv0l

Have you tried using a "clean" boot disk ? If not, try it, and post output, and we can take it from there

thanks a lot guys.....i will try ur suggestions....
u've been very helpful.....

adios 4 now

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try booting up with a bootdisk..

then type "fdisk /mbr" to restore the master boot record

the fact is simple the hard disk crashed n the worst part is u can't do a damn thin about iteven if the above thins work they 'lll only be temporary and after a sudden power intrrupt u'll have the same old problem so


vat i suggest is do the above said tricks as suggested by sumdumguy jm459 etc save ur data to a cd or som thin like that and buy a new hard disk

thats it the old hard disk is a guest for a few days kiss it good bye!!


belive me i am at a cyber cafe for nothin i too had the same problem and it got right al right but after a few start ups same problem


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PROUD TO BE A HINDU ,PROUD TO BE A INDIAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi,

You have some pretty good advice. After you have done that I would boot from an installation/ recovery disk and run scandisk with autofix errors checked and surface scan on. Set the advanced settings to give you a report/log.

This will show you the extent of damage to your HDD and will perform some data recovery that will make tranferring it to a new HDD much easier.

As it will have "repaired" the bad clusters (marked them as unavailable), you will have a better chance of the HDD running for long enough to do a decent recovery.

Follow Nightfall's Girl's advice, and make sure that all cables and components are firmly connected/seated first. It may just be a connection.


Good luck

My suggestion is that you insert another disk and install windows on it!
Boot up the new os and copy the files u need (sounds possible since the disk can load up some files at the start! Belive it isnt severly damaged)

When u done that, format the disk and se if its ok.
Scan the hd with scandisk(sux) or another program thats better!

Then install windows on it and copy things back.


Its simple but it might work and you dont need to run diagnosis test on the hd to realize its broken.


I sux! =)

try this: make sure the jumper on the back of the HD is still there. Some HD need a jumper to be booted. If thats not the case, i'd defenitely look at the excellent suggestions mentioned above.

Good Luck

thanks guys...

i been away for a few days, i will get on this when i go back home....

have a good weekend

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The quote below is unfortunately very likely true. Physical damage to the disk often occurs in instances where systems are dropped or knocked over. Reformatting a Master Boot Record is a temporary solution to a permanent problem.

The Master Boot Record (or MBR) holds all data related to the actual accessible parts of the drive. It holds the information that tells your computer where it can and can not write data. When physical damage occurs to a hard disk, the MBR tells the system that the newly damaged parts are still good, which results in the inability of the system to read the disk.

When you reformat the MBR (Otherwise called Low Level Formatting), you are telling the drive to mark all damaged parts as unusable, and it will consequently skip over those parts when reading and writing data.

The bad part about doing this, is that when your hard disk is physically damaged, it is prone to additional damage over time from normal use. If you come to the conclusion that all else has failed, and you want to do a Low Level Format, take this into consideration. It may be in your best interest to buy a new drive.

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Originally posted here by tejaswyappalla
the fact is simple the hard disk crashed n the worst part is u can't do a damn thin about iteven if the above thins work they 'lll only be temporary and after a sudden power intrrupt u'll have the same old problem so


vat i suggest is do the above said tricks as suggested by sumdumguy jm459 etc save ur data to a cd or som thin like that and buy a new hard disk

thats it the old hard disk is a guest for a few days kiss it good bye!!


belive me i am at a cyber cafe for nothin i too had the same problem and it got right al right but after a few start ups same problem


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PROUD TO BE A HINDU ,PROUD TO BE A INDIAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ok.....im home now....my brief vacation is over..
today i will try all teh above suggestions and let you know what worked, and what happened..
i hope ur week will be wonderful

catch ya on the flip side

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ok..i tried all that stuff....appearantly the HD was screwed up..the fdisk/mbr command didnt do anything.....they had no boot disk, so i couldnt do much in that area......i suggested they go buy a new HD and install it there...everyone is happy now :D
thanks for the ideas though....i saved them in case i need to use them again.....

catch yall later

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