I had a similar problem on my Win2k box. (I partitioned the partitioned the phisical drive into 4 virtual drives). The system partition became scrambled, but the others remained readable. A PITA but I was able to backup all the data from the other partitions. Ran the manufactures system diagnostics on the drive as well as windows. Everything came back as copacetic. I figured it was a software glitch, so I re-partitioned the HD and reinstalled Win2K, (and all the software from scratch). However I had an old 8GB drive sitting around collecting dust so I ghosted the new system partition onto it, to get a live backup. I'm glad I did. The installation functioned for all of two weeks and failed in much the same way. I backed up any new data and attempted a to re partition the HD, it's unreadable, there was a failure in the drives on board electronics, none of the diagnostics tools picked up the problem until after the catastrophic failure. It makes a nice paperweight though.
Scott Loveless wrote: > Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Scott Loveless wrote: >> >> >> >>> Last night the laptop shot itself in the foot. I'm surfing along, >>> reading my mail, whatever, and explorer crashed. Then my other apps >>> started shutting down. Then windows tells me that it's encountered a >>> critical error and must shut down. Now it won't boot. At all. Safe >>> mode doesn't work either. Compaq was nice enough to install a few >>> recovery utilities on a separate partition. No luck. Seems the only >>> option I have is restoring the laptop to its original condition. 20 GB >>> of photos and other files are located on that machine. At least 6GB >>> >>> >> >from GFM. I really didn't want to lose this stuff. I hate Vista. >> >> Sounds like a hard drive going south >> >> >> >> > That's what I thought, too, but the recovery partition is still > working. One of the tools is a hard drive diagnostic. No errors > found. The file backup utilities on that partition need a drive large > enough to copy to - it's not smart enough to let me swap out usb pen > drives or burn to CD. System restore (also available from the recovery > partition) wasn't enabled. I'm not sure if it wasn't on by default or > if I turned it off at some point. Right now Ubuntu is reading the drive > just fine. I'm beginning to think it's a software issue. Perhaps the > crash corrupted a startup service or something like that. We'll see. > > -- All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
