Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

EvilTwin wrote:
> Hi Sypher
>
> thanks for the quick response. I have a supplementary question I hope
> you can help with: assuming your suggestion is correct, can the data
> on the faulty hard drive be recovered? My son has a lot of college
> work in its memory and to lose it would be a loss of months of work.

It's too soon to tell.

First, get this machine up and running. That means a new hard drive and
probably a retail copy of XP.

Once it's running, you can connect the old hard drive as a slave and
determine if it can be read. It may be, if you're lucky, that only the boot
record is smashed.

If the entire directory structure is hosed, but the disk is readable, you
may still be able to recover. Check EasyRecovery professional edition.


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