Re: recovering hard drive

From: Ahmad Rizvi (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:26:09 -0700

When I boot from a windows xp CD, and when I reach the
point at which the screen shows my hard drives, I get:

C (type unknown) 47000MB (47000 MB free)

I do not get any option to recover this hard drive.

Will I have to do a reinstall in this case?

Ahmad

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>"Ahmad Rizvi" <ahmadwaris@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:0d5b01c484ce$4e52dfc0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to recover a hard drive running on
>> windows xp professional?
>>
>> This is what happens when I power up:
>>
>> "Your computer failed to start the last time. This
could
>> be due to a software or hardware problem. Please select
>> one of these modes:
>>
>> Safe Mode
>> Safe mode with networking
>> Safe mode with command prompt
>> Last known good configuration
>> Start Windows normally
>>
>> If I select 'Last known good configuration' or 'Start
>> Windows Normally', the computer shows me a new screen
>> saying
>> Windows XP Professional Starting ....
>>
>> And then I am brought back to the original screen
showing
>> all the modes.
>>
>> If I select any Safe Mode, I get the following output
on
>> the screen:
>> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows\System32
>> \Drivers\filename.exe
>> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows\System32
>> \Drivers\filename1.sys
>> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows\System32
>> \Drivers\filename2.sys
>> ....
>>
>> (like a screen dump, listing a number of paths similar
to
>> the 3 above)
>>
>> And then I am brought back to the original screen
showing
>> the modes to be selected.
>>
>> Needless to say, I am not able to start up.
>>
>> Please help me to recover my data.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rizvi
>
>
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>

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