Hard Disk Damage

cheersthanksbye

Made a school boy error last night. Set up my desktop pc in my living room and set it up close to my washing machine (which was on a full cycle). Left the pc on, went out and when I came back it the computer had frozen. Restarted it and on booting I got the message ‘NTLDR is Missing’ and the machine goes no futher.

Thus it seems to me that my hard disk cannot be accessed – NTLDR is the part of the disk which loads Windows is it not?

Anyway, just wondering if anyone knew of the chances of recovering data off the disk and the best way to do it? Was thinking of taking the disk out of the PC chassis, loading it into another machine and 1) seeing what I can access on there (if anything) and 2) searching the net for some disk data-recovery/repair programs. Anyone know of any decent programs or indeed the best way to recover data?

Many thanks,
R

Rex_Mundi

Have a look here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320397

or
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

or
http://www.tinyempire.com/shortnotes/files/ntldr_missing.htm

It seems your problem is fixable.

Good luck!

alanrowell

You have a washing machine in your living room!!!

Toxteth_OGrady

Boot from your Windows Install CD and run a Repair (using Keep Data option).

If you can get hold of a Linux distro live CD it should mount the drive OK and allow you to recover your data to another local or network disk or archive it to CD/DVD.

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TOG

cheersthanksbye

Cheers guys. Will try all these out tonight when I get back home from work.

RE: Washing machine in my livingroom

That's modern 'open plan' living for you!

Im not an expert on washing machines (or computers that much) but have been trying to work out what caused the disk to have problems. Is it more likely to be the vibrations or do washing machines use microwaves which have somehow fried my hard disk?

LincsLad_3

Would have thought vibration more likely.

Did you set up the PC on top of the washing machine or something??? :-[

jazzeeeee5

I am so stuck with this image of PC and washing machine....

Toxteth_OGrady

@jazz

Does this help break the mental image ???

roflmao ;D

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TOG