Caput Hard-drive

crompton

so connect his hd's to my pc

albertross_2

are they sata or pata. Does safemode not work?

crompton

tryed connected them and his are SATA and mine arents:( oh well ill try another time, hes got a laptop its just he copied all his lp's and other records onto there and then sold the records. So it would be annoying to lose of all those files.

DrSmutt

you need to find some else with SATA connections. so keep the drive until then.

dag_2

I must say I still don't totally understand what's wrong with the hard disk.

albertross says:

if it's not physical, it's not dead, and therefore logical, which can normally be fixed with chkdsk c: /F/R

crompton says:

i cant load windows up though to do that.

Yeah but has his computer got a CDROM drive? If so, then could you not boot Knoppix GNU/Linux off a CD? If so, then it shouldn't matter if you can't fit his hard disk into your computer.

MonkeySaving?

Have you tried Hiren's boot CD? You can use Ontrack powertools off that to recover data.

Blacksheep1979

Is it a sata drive? If so you will possibly need to load the drivers for this for the windows disk to find the drive.

crompton

I have found sata ports on my motherboard so it shouldn't be a problem. Someone mentioned booting linux from a cd? what use would this be?.

crompton

ive got his hard drive plugged into my pc right now and i can access files, play games run programs etc but when i plug it back into his pc im still getting the message i first posted...and what does the chkdisk thing do and how can i do it, his drive is currently G:

EDIT:
Ive google this and it appears to be to do with something missing from the registery and invloves the recovery console to correct it, but i cannot access the recovery console...it wont let me! Will i have to just copy the data and format c:?

DrSmutt

now that you have been running the software on his drive on your machine who knows what extra damage you might have done.

backup the data, see post #14, wipe the disk, and install windows.

unless your friend has had a virus i would suspect the drive is on its way out.