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Possible hard drive failure

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Matt2

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My girlfriend's HD in her DELL POS, was actin kinda funny as of late.

Today the power went out and when we tried to turn it back on, the WIn2k splash screen shows, but I get an immediate BSOD that says "Boot disk inaccessible"

There's a lotta priceless pics on this HD, so I immediately threw the HD into one of my machines and it worked as a slave just fine. I'm transferring all sensitive data as we speak.

SO what happened? Corrupted boot file? Bad HD? Or could it be something else? I dunno.

kinda weird it will work without a hitch as a slave, but will not boot no matter what on it's own.

What do u think?
 
How old is it?

If I had to bet off of the information you're giving me though, I'd say it was going the way of the dinosaurs. I had a drive start flaking on me like that shortly before the end.
 
Yeah, I think I am gonna transfer all the stuff I wanna save and reformat the drive. I dunno how old the drive is, but I checked the Maxtor warranty online and it said the warranty expired 12/24/04 so I'm guessing it was old.
 
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