Re: Is it HighPoint, is it Seagate, or is it Windows 2000 Professional

From: G.Beat (now9spamgb_at_no.comcast.spam.net)
Date: 06/05/04 

Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 13:17:16 GMT

"JayC BuzzWord" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17f7701c44a47$411d01d0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
The state of Play
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Okay guys: a few weeks ago, while using my beloved
desktop, it crashed to "blue screen error".

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0x81482E50, 0xC0000032, 0x00000000,
0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

I am completely new to the 'seriously crashed machine'
scene. And really shaken-up, I tried a Norton Recovery
diskette
(which went and wrote a Windows Millenium "boot block"
onto my hard drive, by way of "system recovery").
Then I tried to boot my system: Windows reported
an "invalid disk array".
Then with my heart in my mouth ( 'cos things seemed to
have gotten worse) I learnt from the internet that Norton
(System) Recovery Diskettes are made to recover Win9x and
WinME systems -- Ouch!

[snip]

Any ideas -- anybody? Good, workable advice and
instruction will be especially welcome.

Thanks
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Jay -

My advice is to: contact a qualified restoration/recovery company -
especially if this 3 years of data
is of high value (e.g. business, client).
It is not advisable to work on computers in a restoration mode -- when you
are emotionally charged (shaken) --
this inevitably leads to mistakes or steps taken that make the situation
worst -- or leads to inability to recover this data.

Ontrack Data Recovery is a company that I have utilized for over 20 years
for complex or difficult recovery situations.
They have offices worldwide.
http://www.ontrack.com/

The failure could be a RAID controller or one of the 2 hard drives itself

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