Re: Hard Drive Dilema

From: DigitalBIOS (DigitalBIOS_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:57:02 -0800

   Hello Mr. Hall,
 Im giving a bit of optimism towards the drive itself since the owner's pc
is just over 3 months old. All the knowledge that I've gathered, including
the vasts amounts of information that I already know, tell me that the source
of the hard drive's misfit roams in the boot sector. It just wont pass
through my mind that such a new device could already be (as you put it)
"crapped out". I never really trusted Western Digital HDDs...not that THAT's
the case. The real question is: what must have happened in order to cause a
boot sector to go bad, not including viruses of any kind?(I scanned without
results.) That answered, will give me a big pointer as to how to prevent it
from falling again in the wrong hands...in this case(i didnt mention) my
clients pc is 99.9% used by a kid. That tells me a few things.
  I'll be very busy for the next 2 days....before weekend kicks, I'll start
on fixing primarily with a Repair Install using the XP CD.
Thanks alot,
DigitalBIOS.

"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> 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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