My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the
first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like to
save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there any
possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Scott

Re: Help on dead hard disk by LVTravel

LVTravel
Wed Apr 16 09:43:28 PDT 2008

If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the drive
has failed?

What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot into
safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?

While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
cycles...) or a corrupted OS.

To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)

Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.


"Scott" <NoSpam-Scott.Xe@GMail.com> wrote in message
news:etG%23Tq9nIHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the
> first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like to
> save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there any
> possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott



Re: Help on dead hard disk by smlunatick

smlunatick
Wed Apr 16 11:44:03 PDT 2008

On Apr 16, 12:43=A0pm, "LVTravel" <no...@nothere.com> wrote:
> If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the driv=
e
> has failed?
>
> What error messages are you getting? =A0What happens if you try to boot in=
to
> safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?
>
> While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
> describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
> cycles...) or a corrupted OS.
>
> To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
> drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
> computer. =A0You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive bu=
t
> that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)
>
> Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.
>
> "Scott" <NoSpam-Scott...@GMail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:etG%23Tq9nIHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
>
>
> > My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. =A0It just boots to th=
e
> > first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. =A0I would like =
to
> > save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. =A0Is there a=
ny
> > possible way to retrieve the data? =A0Your advice is highly appreciated.=

>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Scott- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.

Re: Help on dead hard disk by Jasper

Jasper
Wed Apr 16 12:01:30 PDT 2008


"smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:0052493c-36f8-462d-8e12-3cc887fb0832@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
On Apr 16, 12:43 pm, "LVTravel" <no...@nothere.com> wrote:
> If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the
> drive
> has failed?
>
> What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot into
> safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?
>
> While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
> describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
> cycles...) or a corrupted OS.
>
> To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
> drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
> computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
> that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)
>
> Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.
>
> "Scott" <NoSpam-Scott...@GMail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:etG%23Tq9nIHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
>
>
> > My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the
> > first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like to
> > save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there any
> > possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Scott- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.

Don't be two quick to dump that drive. Boot up with the XP cd and run the
repair console. Run FixBoot and FixMBR and try to boot into windows again.
It should do a chkdsk on bootup. then do a defrag.

Hope this works for you.



Re: Help on dead hard disk by smlunatick

smlunatick
Wed Apr 16 13:41:15 PDT 2008

On Apr 16, 3:01=A0pm, "Jasper" <Jas...@faraway.ca> wrote:
> "smlunatick" <yves...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:0052493c-36f8-462d-8e12-3cc887fb0832@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 16, 12:43 pm, "LVTravel" <no...@nothere.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the
> > drive
> > has failed?
>
> > What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot int=
o
> > safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?
>
> > While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
> > describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
> > cycles...) or a corrupted OS.
>
> > To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard=

> > drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other=

> > computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but=

> > that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)
>
> > Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.
>
> > "Scott" <NoSpam-Scott...@GMail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:etG%23Tq9nIHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
> > > My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the=

> > > first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like t=
o
> > > save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there an=
y
> > > possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated.
>
> > > Thanks,
>
> > > Scott- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
> within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.
>
> Don't be two quick to dump that drive. Boot up with the XP cd and run the
> repair console. Run FixBoot and FixMBR and try to boot into windows again.=

> It should do a chkdsk on bootup. then do a defrag.
>
> Hope this works for you.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I know what my reponce states is true! May 2007 I suffered a drive
crash due to a MFT corruption. I replaced the drive then and I have
been running since. Now in March 2008, I decided to try to
"resurrect" my "defunct" drive and got myself an enclosure. No matter
what I tried, with tools delivered with Windows XP, drive never listed
the files. I then tried several disk / file recovery tools and found
a few that will list my files. Due to the 'free" file recovery
limits, I managed to recovery some small files.

Re: Help on dead hard disk by Scott

Scott
Wed Apr 16 16:20:22 PDT 2008

LV,

My reply is as below:- Any more suggestions?

"LVTravel" <noone@nothere.com> ¦b¶l¥ó
news:eqWqBE%23nIHA.2188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl ¤¤¼¶¼g...
> If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the
> drive has failed?

After the running blue dots within a rectangle block, it goes into a blue
screen for a second or so. Then come on the boot menu to select boot to
safe mode or other modes. It cycles whatever I select.

>
> What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot into
> safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?

After I select boot to safe mode, it runs until this statement,
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows system32\Drivers\Mup.sys. It
automatically reboot after a short period of time.

>
> While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
> describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
> cycles...) or a corrupted OS.

The system says there is no hard disk attached.

>
> To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
> drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
> computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
> that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)

The Windows does not detect any hard drive attached.
>
> Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.
>
>
> "Scott" <NoSpam-Scott.Xe@GMail.com> wrote in message
> news:etG%23Tq9nIHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the
>> first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like to
>> save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there any
>> possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Scott
>
>



Re: Help on dead hard disk by Scott

Scott
Wed Apr 16 16:23:26 PDT 2008

"Jasper" <Jasper@faraway.ca> ¦b¶l¥ó
news:O4a45Q$nIHA.3532@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl ¤¤¼¶¼g...
>
> "smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:0052493c-36f8-462d-8e12-3cc887fb0832@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 16, 12:43 pm, "LVTravel" <no...@nothere.com> wrote:
>> If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the
>> drive
>> has failed?
>>
>> What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot into
>> safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?
>>
>> While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
>> describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
>> cycles...) or a corrupted OS.
>>
>> To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
>> drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
>> computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
>> that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)
>>
>> Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.
>>
>> "Scott" <NoSpam-Scott...@GMail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:etG%23Tq9nIHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>
>>
>>
>> > My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the
>> > first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like to
>> > save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there any
>> > possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated.
>>
>> > Thanks,
>>
>> > Scott- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
> within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.

I did a search it seems I have to buy one. Any recommended one?
>
> Don't be two quick to dump that drive. Boot up with the XP cd and run the
> repair console. Run FixBoot and FixMBR and try to boot into windows again.
> It should do a chkdsk on bootup. then do a defrag.
>
> Hope this works for you.
>



Re: Help on dead hard disk by Scott

Scott
Wed Apr 16 16:25:38 PDT 2008

"smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> ��件
news:4330c226-9584-4284-b279-a55d018f6d30@r9g2000prd.googlegroups.com 中�寫...
On Apr 16, 3:01 pm, "Jasper" <Jas...@faraway.ca> wrote:
> "smlunatick" <yves...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:0052493c-36f8-462d-8e12-3cc887fb0832@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 16, 12:43 pm, "LVTravel" <no...@nothere.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the
> > drive
> > has failed?
>
> > What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot
> > into
> > safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?
>
> > While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
> > describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
> > cycles...) or a corrupted OS.
>
> > To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
> > drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
> > computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
> > that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)
>
> > Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.
>
> > "Scott" <NoSpam-Scott...@GMail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:etG%23Tq9nIHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
> > > My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the
> > > first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like
> > > to
> > > save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there
> > > any
> > > possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated.
>
> > > Thanks,
>
> > > Scott- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
> within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.
>
> Don't be two quick to dump that drive. Boot up with the XP cd and run the
> repair console. Run FixBoot and FixMBR and try to boot into windows again.
> It should do a chkdsk on bootup. then do a defrag.
>
> Hope this works for you.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I know what my reponce states is true! May 2007 I suffered a drive
crash due to a MFT corruption. I replaced the drive then and I have
been running since. Now in March 2008, I decided to try to
"resurrect" my "defunct" drive and got myself an enclosure. No matter
what I tried, with tools delivered with Windows XP, drive never listed
the files. I then tried several disk / file recovery tools and found
a few that will list my files. Due to the 'free" file recovery
limits, I managed to recovery some small files.


I hope I am also a lucky one. Which disk recovery sytem did you find
workable?


Re: Help on dead hard disk by LVTravel

LVTravel
Wed Apr 16 17:36:40 PDT 2008


"Scott" <NoSpam-Scott.Xe@GMail.com> wrote in message
news:eA0uihBoIHA.672@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> LV,
>
> My reply is as below:- Any more suggestions?
>
> "LVTravel" <noone@nothere.com> ¦b¶l¥ó
> news:eqWqBE%23nIHA.2188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl ¤¤¼¶¼g...
>> If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the
>> drive has failed?
>
> After the running blue dots within a rectangle block, it goes into a blue
> screen for a second or so. Then come on the boot menu to select boot to
> safe mode or other modes. It cycles whatever I select.
>
>>
>> What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot
>> into safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?
>
> After I select boot to safe mode, it runs until this statement,
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows system32\Drivers\Mup.sys. It
> automatically reboot after a short period of time.
>
>>
>> While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
>> describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
>> cycles...) or a corrupted OS.
>
> The system says there is no hard disk attached.
>
>>
>> To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
>> drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
>> computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
>> that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)
>
> The Windows does not detect any hard drive attached.
>>
>> Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.
>>
>>
>> "Scott" <NoSpam-Scott.Xe@GMail.com> wrote in message
>> news:etG%23Tq9nIHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the
>>> first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like to
>>> save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there any
>>> possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Scott
>>
>>
>
>

See the responses from Jasper.

Also, if you have not, please use the same name on each post, it is getting
confusing. I don't know if I am talking to Scott or smulnatick or the same
person.

You are experiencing a blue screen on bootup and the system is set to
automatically reboot on error. This needs to be turned off.

If you ever get into safe mode turn off the auto restart.

To disable the automatic restart, System>Advanced>Startup and
Recovery>Settings and under System Failure uncheck "Automatically Restart".


If you get the automatic restart set properly and get a stop code go here to
find out more information
http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

If the Stop Error mentions a file, then this could be a driver issue.






Re: Help on dead hard disk by Scott

Scott
Thu Apr 17 08:22:25 PDT 2008

"LVTravel" <noone@nothere.com> ¦b¶l¥ó
news:OgH2cMCoIHA.1580@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl ¤¤¼¶¼g...

>
> See the responses from Jasper.
>
> Also, if you have not, please use the same name on each post, it is
> getting confusing. I don't know if I am talking to Scott or smulnatick or
> the same person.
>
> You are experiencing a blue screen on bootup and the system is set to
> automatically reboot on error. This needs to be turned off.
>
> If you ever get into safe mode turn off the auto restart.
>
> To disable the automatic restart, System>Advanced>Startup and
> Recovery>Settings and under System Failure uncheck "Automatically
> Restart".
>
>
> If you get the automatic restart set properly and get a stop code go here
> to find out more information
> http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
>
> If the Stop Error mentions a file, then this could be a driver issue.
>

LV,

I do not understand your query about the name and I always use the same
name.

I downloaded two system recovery programs: Stellar Phoenix Windows Data
Recovery & Recovery My File for trial test. The result was nothing detected
on my desktop pc and caused my pc to re-start removing frozen state. It
seems my Fujitsu MHV2100BH hard disk is dead permanently. Very bad!!

Scott



Re: Help on dead hard disk by smlunatick

smlunatick
Thu Apr 17 10:02:53 PDT 2008

On Apr 16, 7:23 pm, "Scott" <NoSpam-Scott...@GMail.com> wrote:
> "Jasper" <Jas...@faraway.ca> 在郵件news:O4a45Q$nIHA.3532@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl中撰寫...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > "smlunatick" <yves...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:0052493c-36f8-462d-8e12-3cc887fb0832@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> > On Apr 16, 12:43 pm, "LVTravel" <no...@nothere.com> wrote:
> >> If it is booting to the Windows logo screen, what makes you think the
> >> drive
> >> has failed?
>
> >> What error messages are you getting? What happens if you try to boot into
> >> safe mode (F8 immediately during and after the bios information)?
>
> >> While you may have a corrupted installation of XP the symptom your are
> >> describing is more like a different hardware problem (shuts off and
> >> cycles...) or a corrupted OS.
>
> >> To retrieve the data, purchase a 2.5" USB enclosure and install the hard
> >> drive from the laptop (my assumption) into it and plug it into any other
> >> computer. You may have to take ownership of the folders on the drive but
> >> that is not an issue (search Google for the information.)
>
> >> Please respond back with answers and we may be able to help more.
>
> >> "Scott" <NoSpam-Scott...@GMail.com> wrote in message
>
> >>news:etG%23Tq9nIHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
> >> > My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the
> >> > first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like to
> >> > save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there any
> >> > possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated.
>
> >> > Thanks,
>
> >> > Scott- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > Besides the drive enclosure, if the drive will not show up completely
> > within Windwos, you will need to locate a disk recovery system.
>
> I did a search it seems I have to buy one. Any recommended one?
>
>
>
>
>
> > Don't be two quick to dump that drive. Boot up with the XP cd and run the
> > repair console. Run FixBoot and FixMBR and try to boot into windows again.
> > It should do a chkdsk on bootup. then do a defrag.
>
> > Hope this works for you.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

You can try TestDisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

However, I was not lucky with it.


I did file my files with File Scavenger: http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm

I believe it also you to "freely" recover files <= 5MB.


Other utilities usually offer you a "free" scan and you need to buy
the license to retreive your files.