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Originally Posted by 1life2live4  No need to try getting any files from that drive , Once your operating system goes corrupt that’s it. You have no more working partition witch means all the files and data is gone. You would need some good knowledge about how hard drives work to get your data back. There’s most likely nothing wrong with your hardware it sounds like its all software issuse. Have you tried getting into your bios and telling it to boot from CDrom with the XP cd in the drive. |
I'm sorry but...no! If your operating system goes but the actual hard disk is fine then the only problem is getting some sort of OS to load so you can access the data from the drive. Unless that actual data is damaged then there's no problem. Simply booting up some form of linux from a livecd and then burning copying the data that he wants wouldn't be a problem. No need to lose whatever documents/data you have from this corrupted installation of windows.
If it is the hardware and you find the the hard disk is dying, then seriously back up all stuff you want and replace the HDD.