help me repair my data please

[donjonson]

I posted this in the off topic forum. It was locked I gues it was off topic


Ok kind of a long story..

Windows XP
P4a 2.0Ghz
1 gig ddr333
120G SATA HDD (NTFS windows partition)
9800xt AGP


I was installing the Zune software so I could have connectivity with my new xbox360. During the installation the hdd was making several squeak---CLICK sound at regular intervals. During this behavior the computer was frozen. This continued for a while so I did a stupid thing. During the installation I hit the reset button. When I went to reboot the hdd was doing the same thing and it was not detected so I was sure the drive went bad. I wiggled the cable and now it is recognized and the sounds are gone. Well now windows won?t boot. It sits at the windows xp screen with the blue bar just cycling forever. I tired safe mode and it hangs at mup.sys. I believe the partition has been corrupted but the bad SATA cable. So I pop in the windows installation cd so I can boot into the recovery console well It loads fine but when I get to the screen where you press enter to continue and r for recovery, the keyboard stops responding. I believe the system is locked so I hit the reset button. So I download a dos boot disk with NTFS4DOS so that I can perform a chkdsk on my hdd. well apparently there is a chkdsk version that works with NTFS however it does not work very well. I keep getting an unspecified error at the end of step 2. So I believe what I need is the chkntfs program but when I put that on the boot disk it wont run with the following error ?this cannot run in dos mode?. I am stuck! I don?t know what else to do. I don?t want to wipe the drive and reinstall windows. I have a program that will get all the data off but that is not what I want. If anyone has any suggestions I am very open to them. Thank you!

The fact that this is an NTFS file system on an SATA drive makes this problem all the more difficult because dos does not recognize NTFS and many repair tools are only for IDE.


Thank you for reading this long post and I appreciate any suggestions you might have.

 

[igloo15]

your best bet is to hook the drive up to another computer that is working and using some kind of recovery software via the other computer to get the data off it. The drive sounds like its dead though in which case getting the data might be impossible.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Download a copy of Knoppix and burn the image to a CD.

It's a live cd that will allow you to get to your harddrive and read NTFS. If you can setup an FTP or Samba share on another system, you can copy everything over.

You could always try mounting the harddrive on an existing system, but you may hit security issues depending on what you have setup on your windows box and how locked down it is.

 

[donjonson]

the drive is not dead. I can access all the data and Since I messed with the cable it has behaved normally. I belive the data has been corupted but the drive is fine. So I would like to try and repair the data first. It will start to boot in safe mode but hangs at Mup.sys I will try to mount it with another pc and try to rapir the drive there

 

[donjonson]

bump

 

[Nnyan]

dude the drive may not be "dead" but I would not trust a drive that makes those types of sounds and acts the way yours does. This is a loud warning your computer is giving you:

HARD DRIVE ABOUT TO DIE MOVE ANYTHING YOU VALUE OFF (tell me you're backing things up).

Drives are cheap get a new one.