System: Dell Latitude D600
Drive: Seagate 5400.3 perpendicular recording 160GB IDE
So I was a dumbass this morning and accidentally pulled my laptop forward, yanking the AC cord out the back. There was no battery in at the time (thus the dumbass part) so the system immediately powered all the way off. I restarted and immediately after the Dell POST splash screen got
A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart.
So I did that a few times knowing that I was probably ******. Needless to say the system would not boot any farther than that point, so I thought I was totally screwed. Here are the troubleshooting steps I attempted, leading up to my present stumped status.
Step 1: pulled out my volume license copy XP SP2 disc and tried to boot into Recovery Console. The system recognized the CD and prompted me to boot from it, but immediately after the "Setup is inspecting your hardware configuration" message the screen goes dark and nothing ever happens.
Step 2: No CHKDSK from recovery console so I tried the NTFS4DOS boot ISO from bootdisk.com AND the Ultimate Boot Disc for Windows CD. With the former, I could get to an A:\ prompt and the HD was definitely "seen" by the software on the disc, but CHKDSK just wouldn't work. With the latter, I got the same problem as Step 1, because the UBD4W requires that you kind of slipstream files from the XP CD onto it so it can launch a quasi WinXP environment. That is, after inspecting hardware configuration, nothing.
Step 3: I took the drive out and stuck it in a 2.5" IDE -> USB 2.0 enclosure I have and connected it to a PC in the computer lab here at my univ. in Taiwan. Surprise surprise WinXP could read everything on the disc and I was able to open multiple files I'd selected randomly. I opened a command prompt on this PC and ran chkdsk /f on the volume my HD showed up as (G:\). Now unfortunately the OS was all in Chinese and my technical Chinese vocab is terrible, but it REALLY seemed like CHKDSK found nothing wrong with the HD.
Step 4: I stuck the drive back in the laptop and went back to square 1.
Some googling turned up this fixmbr option supposedly available in Recovery Console, but I can't get Recovery Console to work on the laptop. Does anybody think that either
1) the IDE hardware on the laptop itself is damaged by the power loss, or
2) it would be possible to run fixmbr from the PC, if I put the drive back in the enclosure and I reconnect to the PC?
Since all the data SEEMS (gulp) to be accessible, worst-case scenario is that I buy another 2.5" IDE drive and try to install WinXP on it fresh in the laptop, then transfer data off the 160GB drive later. Does anybody have any other ideas? Thanks!
Drive: Seagate 5400.3 perpendicular recording 160GB IDE
So I was a dumbass this morning and accidentally pulled my laptop forward, yanking the AC cord out the back. There was no battery in at the time (thus the dumbass part) so the system immediately powered all the way off. I restarted and immediately after the Dell POST splash screen got
A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart.
So I did that a few times knowing that I was probably ******. Needless to say the system would not boot any farther than that point, so I thought I was totally screwed. Here are the troubleshooting steps I attempted, leading up to my present stumped status.
Step 1: pulled out my volume license copy XP SP2 disc and tried to boot into Recovery Console. The system recognized the CD and prompted me to boot from it, but immediately after the "Setup is inspecting your hardware configuration" message the screen goes dark and nothing ever happens.
Step 2: No CHKDSK from recovery console so I tried the NTFS4DOS boot ISO from bootdisk.com AND the Ultimate Boot Disc for Windows CD. With the former, I could get to an A:\ prompt and the HD was definitely "seen" by the software on the disc, but CHKDSK just wouldn't work. With the latter, I got the same problem as Step 1, because the UBD4W requires that you kind of slipstream files from the XP CD onto it so it can launch a quasi WinXP environment. That is, after inspecting hardware configuration, nothing.
Step 3: I took the drive out and stuck it in a 2.5" IDE -> USB 2.0 enclosure I have and connected it to a PC in the computer lab here at my univ. in Taiwan. Surprise surprise WinXP could read everything on the disc and I was able to open multiple files I'd selected randomly. I opened a command prompt on this PC and ran chkdsk /f on the volume my HD showed up as (G:\). Now unfortunately the OS was all in Chinese and my technical Chinese vocab is terrible, but it REALLY seemed like CHKDSK found nothing wrong with the HD.
Step 4: I stuck the drive back in the laptop and went back to square 1.
Some googling turned up this fixmbr option supposedly available in Recovery Console, but I can't get Recovery Console to work on the laptop. Does anybody think that either
1) the IDE hardware on the laptop itself is damaged by the power loss, or
2) it would be possible to run fixmbr from the PC, if I put the drive back in the enclosure and I reconnect to the PC?
Since all the data SEEMS (gulp) to be accessible, worst-case scenario is that I buy another 2.5" IDE drive and try to install WinXP on it fresh in the laptop, then transfer data off the 160GB drive later. Does anybody have any other ideas? Thanks!
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