Have you considered booting up from a SpinRite CD, http://www.grc.com/ It
is a DOS, low-level, hard drive checker.
If the BIOS recognizes the drive, then SprinRite will be able to run sector
tests and attempt to repair them.
Nicholas Geti
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt @ VR-FX" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [NF] SATA Drive & a Dead PC...
Although - in my case - I want Both - since I have at least one program
that is tied to the system - and its a Drag to lose that permanently!
On 11/14/2012 4:06 PM, Richard Kaye wrote:
Safe Mode may boot, which would be the goal of the exercise as I assume
you're mainly interested in retrieving data, not applications. :-)
--
rk
-----Original Message-----
From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt
@ VR-FX
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 3:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NF] SATA Drive & a Dead PC...
I've tried Safe Mode in the past - and NEVER Found it very helpful...
-K-
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