Failure Fixed Disk

[Guest]

Recently I was on my laptop and it shut down on me, when I tried to reboot,
it came up with the error code Failure Fixed Disk, then goes straight to
Bios. I can't even get windows to come up at all to try a virus scan or
anything. Any ideas?????

Also I have Windows XP, and the hard disk connections have also been checked.

 

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

Recently I was on my laptop and it shut down on me, when I tried to
reboot, it came up with the error code Failure Fixed Disk, then goes
straight to Bios. I can't even get windows to come up at all to try
a virus scan or anything. Any ideas?????

Call you computer's manufacturer - this isn't a C++ problem.

-cd

 

[PvdG42]

Recently I was on my laptop and it shut down on me, when I tried to
reboot,
it came up with the error code Failure Fixed Disk, then goes straight to
Bios. I can't even get windows to come up at all to try a virus scan or
anything. Any ideas?????

Also I have Windows XP, and the hard disk connections have also been
checked.

Carl's right. Not a C++ issue. However, as the Microsoft news groups are not
designed for generic hardware issues, I'll venture an opinion:

The error message means that your hard drive has crashed and must be
replaced. Hope you made your recovery DVD/CD set as instructed by the laptop
manufacturer.
If the laptop is still under warranty, send it (the laptop) to the
manufacturer for repair.

 

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

Carl's right. Not a C++ issue. However, as the Microsoft news groups are
not designed for generic hardware issues, I'll venture an opinion:

The error message means that your hard drive has crashed and must be
replaced. Hope you made your recovery DVD/CD set as instructed by the
laptop manufacturer.
If the laptop is still under warranty, send it (the laptop) to the
manufacturer for repair.

Before doing anything else, including letting the manufacturer repair it:

Buy a USB external hard drive case (laptop drives use the 2.5" variety,
should be about $10 online or $25 at a Fry's, CompUSA, BestBuy, etc), open
the hard drive door and slide the hard drive out and put it in the USB case
using the instructions in the box. Hook it to another Windows computer and
backup anything that you can. Then put it back in the laptop and call the
manufacturer.

Any "repair" you do without very expensive professional tools is 100% sure
to wipe the existing contents. The manufacturer isn't going to save your
data either. So backup first if it is still at all usable.

 

[PvdG42]

including letting the manufacturer repair it:

Buy a USB external hard drive case (laptop drives use the 2.5" variety,
should be about $10 online or $25 at a Fry's, CompUSA, BestBuy, etc), open
the hard drive door and slide the hard drive out and put it in the USB
case using the instructions in the box. Hook it to another Windows
computer and backup anything that you can. Then put it back in the laptop
and call the manufacturer.

Any "repair" you do without very expensive professional tools is 100% sure
to wipe the existing contents. The manufacturer isn't going to save your
data either. So backup first if it is still at all usable.

Thanks for adding that sage advice, Ben!
I should have thought of it, but didn't.

 

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

Thanks for adding that sage advice, Ben!
I should have thought of it, but didn't.

FWIW, for such cases, I highly recommend the products from Runtime
Software - www.runtime.org. I wouldn't even let Windows mount a potentially
damaged volume if I could help it - use a disk imaging tool to make a raw
copy of the disk, then use a file recovery tool (like GetDataBack! from
runtime) to recover files from that image.

-cd