[ck101]

Hey guys, I have a bad case of the Blue screen of death. At first I was only receiving the registry error(0x00000051) when I attempted to boot safe mode. I eventually fixed that using a program called safekeyrepair or something like that. But now I get the bsod when trying to enter safe mode or normal windows.

So I decided screw it I'll try to use the directory recovery mode and just repair or reinstall. But that mode produces the same bsod. So then I tried using my windows xp cd from another computer and when that loads it says it can't find a hard drive, which is bs because I've run a hdd diagnostics program and it spent an hour scanning a hard drive I'm sure of it. The error I received from the diagnostics scan was Error code 0000: Read verification failed.

That's about all I can think of, can anyone help?! Thanks for looking!

[Lance1]

That diag Error code 0000: Read verification failed indicates a failing drive. What diagnostic app did you run? Whats the make and model of the computer? Can you see the drive in the BIOS?

[ck101]

Thanks for the reply!
I is an IBM thinkpad lenova R60, I just ran that diagnostic that's in BIOS. Yes I can see the drive in BIOS.

[Lance1]

I would try and backup your data and look for a new drive. NCIX has the best pricing.

[ck101]

Thanks for the assistance Lance. But how would I be able to backup the data off a fried hard drive?

[Lance1]

Here's a 250GB from NCIX for Lenovo Thinkpad.

[Lance1]

The data may still be accessible by accessing it from a live boot CD. An option is to download ERD and use Magic ISO to burn the ISO to CD. The ISO is compressed in a RAR file so you need to extract it. ERD is a Windows XP live boot CD.

Once your in ERD, go to Start \ System Tools \ Disk Commander. From there you can select the files you want to backup. Give it a try, what do you have to lose!