Re: Hard Drive Dilema

From: Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\) (mike.hall.mail_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:49:23 -0500

If your drive is not showing, there is a reasonable chance that it has
crapped out.. I would probably buy a new drive, start over, and then see if
I could recover stuff from the old one..

In this way, if it has crapped out, you now have a working computer, and you
may have gotten some extra storage in the event that you get the old one
back again.. at worst, you will have a working computer.. 

-- 
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
"DigitalBIOS" <DigitalBIOS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:1E5136C7-D18D-404D-A0AC-027644DCBEC5@microsoft.com...
> Your feedback sounds as the most plausible out of the others.....After 
> this
> advice, I'll consider Elephant Boy's advice.
> The trick is: how to I get the hard drive to show during the boot process.
> On my computer, BIOS stalls for a couple of seconds, then tells me that 
> there
> isn't anything installed... where I have the "sick" hard drive.
>
> IF THAT'S HAPPENING ON MY PC, SHOULDN'T I CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT 
> THE
> HARD DRIVE HAS GONE BUNKERS or INSANE?
> Thanks,
> DigitalBIOS
>
>
> "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
>> Run the XP CD and do a repair install..
>>
>> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/repaxp.htm
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Hall
>> MVP - Windows Shell/user
>>
>> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "DigitalBIOS" <DigitalBIOS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:0AED6231-5C5A-4B7D-9634-3DB7B415F276@microsoft.com...
>> >     Hello anyone, first of all...sorry for the long message....this is
>> > really serious stuff to me.
>> > From time to time, I do some pc fixing, whether it be on my pc or 
>> > someone
>> > elses.  I always finish the job with a satisfactory....not this time. 
>> > I
>> > haven't given a diagnosis yet.  Here's a detailed explaination to 
>> > what's
>> > happening:
>> >
>> > 1.   I turn the pc on..so far so good....finishes searching for 
>> > installed
>> > HDD(s) and/or CD-Roms.
>> > 2.   As you all know the next step should be this one: a black 
>> > background
>> > screen presenting (in this case WinXP) the XP logo and a blue "loading 
>> > OS"
>> > indicator at the bottom.  I hope you understand.
>> > 3.   Well, it never gets to that second step.  I immediately know it's
>> > serious.  The pc reboots by itself and the cycle restarts all over, 
>> > again
>> > and
>> > again and again.
>> >
>> > I took the hard drive out from its place and placed it as a secondary
>> > drive
>> > on another pc to run antivirus software (TrendMicro PC-cillin Internet
>> > Security 2005).  I found more than 300 trojans and worms....some were
>> > repeated, including the known sasser virus.  I thought that did the 
>> > trick,
>> > but I was very very skeptical towards the matter prior to booting up 
>> > with
>> > the
>> > sick hard drive.  I was right...no signs of getting better were 
>> > apparent.
>> > So
>> > I have come to isolate the problem to the boot sector of the hard
>> > drive...worm?.... messed up sector?... I cant really know for sure.  Im
>> > cornered beacuse I am forcing myself not to use formatting. Its too 
>> > early
>> > for
>> > that.
>> >                                     ANY HELP ANYONE?
>>
>>
>>

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