Realtek RTL8139 HARD DRIVE Error

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From: JELASMOM (JELASMOM_at_PACBELL.NET(DO)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:10:03 -0800

This past week…

My hard drive crashed on my laptop… (IBM Travelstar Model IC25N030ATCS04-0
30.00GB 4200RPM ATA/IDE 2.5inch 9.53mm)
I had a friend tell me that he had a virus on his computer and that he may
have transmitted it… I ran my Norton Antivirus… When it completed… It was
frozen… I shut the cover of my laptop down… I hadn't realized that it was
still on… until a couple of hours later… it was hot to the touch… I forced
off with the power button…. A few hours later, I went to turn on my computer
and came across this message:

For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.12 (010817)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM

Over and over again… I restarted the computer and went into BIOS (My BIOS
system is PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Revision 6)… BIOS did not read the hard drive… It
read my dvd/cd-rw… It even read my USB- Iomega Drive… But not the main hard
drive… I tried to put it on AUTO … it still didn't work…

Basically at this point… I started rebooting again… I thought maybe if I
used my Windows XP cd… maybe it would give me the option to do a safe boot or
something… No success… it tried to re-install the XP on my A drive… Whatever
that is… I have no idea… There is no C drive I can tell you that much…

I don't want to attempt to re-write over my hard drive (if even possible)… I
have important documents… So I kept at rebooting for a while… until my NORTON
GO BACK popped up… I tried to use it… and it had an error--- basically it
said that I had to restart the computer.

I am wondering if the registry is shot… or if I really had a virus?

I am wondering if the registry is shot… I came across another hard drive
(IBM Travelstar Model DJSA-220 18.14 ATA IDE 4200RPM ATA/IDE 2.5in)… and the
BIOS read it… however, it was not formatted so it went to a blank screen
after reboot.

Is there any way possible that I can salvage the info off my hard drive
through an external hard drive? Does there seem like any hope?

I have run across some other sites in which users have had the same error
message… but no success on the resolution...

Any ideas? 

-- 
N L ADAMS

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