I left my laptop running the other night and in the morning I had this error: 'A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart.'
Now, whenever I try to boot from the HDD I get this error.
I ran HDD Regenerator on it and it fixed(?) a bunch of bad sectors. I also ran SpinRite on it and no errors were found. I ran the Dell Diagnostics on the HDD and all the parts of the laptop (it's a Dell Inspiron 8100) and everything checked out fine. The bios still recognizes the hard drive and the size etc. The diagnostics and SpinRite also gave me all the proper disk information. So I know the disk is there, it's being recognized, the diagnostics says it can read/write/access/etc the entire disk.
But I still can't boot from it. When I boot from a floppy I can't type c: to access the drive (it says no drive found). I tried running the Windows XP installation to see about doing a repair, but the install hangs right after getting to the 'Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration' part.
I know I should try to put the drive in another computer to test it out, but I have to order the adapter to do that (the one computer store around here doesn't have it) so it will be a week or so until that comes in.
Until then, does anyone have any ideas on what else I might try? I'd really like to access the data on the hdd if I can.
Thanks.
Now, whenever I try to boot from the HDD I get this error.
I ran HDD Regenerator on it and it fixed(?) a bunch of bad sectors. I also ran SpinRite on it and no errors were found. I ran the Dell Diagnostics on the HDD and all the parts of the laptop (it's a Dell Inspiron 8100) and everything checked out fine. The bios still recognizes the hard drive and the size etc. The diagnostics and SpinRite also gave me all the proper disk information. So I know the disk is there, it's being recognized, the diagnostics says it can read/write/access/etc the entire disk.
But I still can't boot from it. When I boot from a floppy I can't type c: to access the drive (it says no drive found). I tried running the Windows XP installation to see about doing a repair, but the install hangs right after getting to the 'Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration' part.
I know I should try to put the drive in another computer to test it out, but I have to order the adapter to do that (the one computer store around here doesn't have it) so it will be a week or so until that comes in.
Until then, does anyone have any ideas on what else I might try? I'd really like to access the data on the hdd if I can.
Thanks.