recovering hard drive

[Ahmad Rizvi]

Hi,

Is there a way to recover a hard drive running on
windows xp professional?

This is what happens when I power up:

"Your computer failed to start the last time. This could
be due to a software or hardware problem. Please select
one of these modes:

Safe Mode
Safe mode with networking
Safe mode with command prompt
Last known good configuration
Start Windows normally

If I select 'Last known good configuration' or 'Start
Windows Normally', the computer shows me a new screen
saying
Windows XP Professional Starting ....

And then I am brought back to the original screen showing
all the modes.

If I select any Safe Mode, I get the following output on
the screen:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows\System32
\Drivers\filename.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows\System32
\Drivers\filename1.sys
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows\System32
\Drivers\filename2.sys
.....

(like a screen dump, listing a number of paths similar to
the 3 above)

And then I am brought back to the original screen showing
the modes to be selected.

Needless to say, I am not able to start up.

Please help me to recover my data.

Thanks,
Rizvi

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Perform a Repair Installation:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/repaxp.htm

 

[Ahmad Rizvi]

When I boot from a windows xp CD, and when I reach the
point at which the screen shows my hard drives, I get:

C (type unknown) 47000MB (47000 MB free)

I do not get any option to recover this hard drive.

Will I have to do a reinstall in this case?

Ahmad

 

[TomW]

Hello Ahmad,

have a look at CIA Commander 2 from
http://www.datapol-technologies.com/dpe.
With CIA Commander you should beable to repair what is needed or at
least backup important files on CD/DVD.

Best Regards
Thomas

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Ahmad;
Go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and download their
hard drive diagnostics.
There may be a problem with the hard drive.