recovering hard drive

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From: Ahmad Rizvi (ahmadwaris_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:53:22 -0700

Hi,

Is there a way to recover a hard drive running on
windows xp professional?
 
This is what happens when I power up:
 
"Your computer failed to start the last time. This could
be due to a software or hardware problem. Please select
one of these modes:
 
Safe Mode
Safe mode with networking
Safe mode with command prompt
Last known good configuration
Start Windows normally
 
If I select 'Last known good configuration' or 'Start
Windows Normally', the computer shows me a new screen
saying
Windows XP Professional Starting ....
 
And then I am brought back to the original screen showing
all the modes.
 
If I select any Safe Mode, I get the following output on
the screen:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows\System32
\Drivers\filename.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows\System32
\Drivers\filename1.sys
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows\System32
\Drivers\filename2.sys
....
 
(like a screen dump, listing a number of paths similar to
the 3 above)
 
And then I am brought back to the original screen showing
the modes to be selected.
 
Needless to say, I am not able to start up.

Please help me to recover my data.

Thanks,
Rizvi

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