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| 677242 | 2008-06-10 10:29:00 | got an XP pro laptop here wont boot it's an old Compaq prosignia, done some research you cannot access the bios on them with out a bios CD. It gets to the XP splash screen and endlessly reboots. Can't boot into any form of safe mode either. Pulled the HDD put in my laptop enclosure switched on checked properties and it says file format RAW?? Because of this I can't do anything. Ran chkdsk /r from another XP pro disk it said unrecoverable errors. Anyone got any clues as to what might have gone wrong? Owner does not have install disk and so I don't have the product key and since I can't boot into it can't run jellybean to find out the key. Any advice welcome. |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 677243 | 2008-06-10 19:30:00 | *Bump* | gary67 (56) | ||
| 677244 | 2008-06-10 19:35:00 | Try a linux boot cd and gpart I found that when windows refuses to do somthing with a disk linux will. I recently recovered data from a supposedly windows unreadable disk using a linux live cd |
beama (111) | ||
| 677245 | 2008-06-10 19:40:00 | Thanks Beama that is going to be my next attempt, have tried just about everything else I can think of, unfortunately it will have to be tonight now when I get home from work |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 677246 | 2008-06-11 01:50:00 | Somehow your hdd has wiped itself and is reporting itself as a new (RAW) drive, you might find something with Beama's suggestion, but it is likely you'll need to Fdisk/partition and format the drive, even then I wouldnt trust it for future use, get a new one. | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 677247 | 2008-06-11 09:21:00 | Oh well Ubuntu found an empty unmountable drive so I gave it back to the owner and told them that it's wiped and therefore empty. On an aside had another laptop HDD that's was supposedly dead put it in my case and XP could see it but could not access it, so tried ubuntu and was able to retrieve all the data for the person so one happy camper and one sad camper for the week. |
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