Re: Disater Recovery-Power Failure on Boot - Data Lost?? Help!

If you have another available machine, install the hd in that machine as a Slave and save any important data/files to the drive on that machine.

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"Mark Gregson" <Mark Gregson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A2FE10B5-F06B-4168-9D04-2F878D9DA1CC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
here is the background of my dilema:- hardware is a laptop (pentium 3, 256
ram, 30gb hdd). OEM with WIN2000, but had XP SP1 update (i think) may even be
full new XP SP1- not sure. How can I tell?

During a boot I had total power loss. Tried to reboot, and on 2 occasions
manged to get to the screen where you can chose 4 options including boot
normally & safe mode. On the second occasion I managed to get to safe mode,
but the system died (power) again before i could do anything constructive. I
tried to re boot again, but all it ran was a memory check and then hung - (ie
wrnt to black screen and flashing cursor). I have no power at all now. The
internal power pack on the motherboard is dead.

I have removed the hard drive and rigged it up as an external hard drive via
USB. I thought this would be a clever way to get my data out of the drive
into a new computer. But to my horror, none of my data is there, even though
the disk shows the original capacity used as being the same pre-disaster.

Question to the IT gurus: Is the data still intact, and if so how can I
recover it?
All help much appreciated. Thankyou in advance of you advice.
Mark Gregson.

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