kicktheninja
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When I first boot up my computer it gets about halfway through the windows xp loading screen and then suddenly stops, bluescreens, and gives the error:
"unbootable_boot_volume"
So my first reaction was to get out my windows cd and run chkdsk.
Immediately after running chkdsk it reports:
"The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems"
The next step I tried was switching to the boot menu from the post screen and choosing "hard drive diagnostics", which said:
Fail. Return code: 7
At this point I am pretty much running out of ideas to try, so I decide to pop in a Ubuntu live disk and see if I can mount the drive there. After about 5 minutes of it trying to mount the drive it failed and said:
"ntfs_attr_pread: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error. Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/Output error"
So now I'm at a loss. Is there anything I can do to save the data? There was some pretty important data on there. I don't really care if I have to throw the drive away after this I just want to be able to copy the data onto another hard drive.
I appreciate the help.
"unbootable_boot_volume"
So my first reaction was to get out my windows cd and run chkdsk.
Immediately after running chkdsk it reports:
"The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems"
The next step I tried was switching to the boot menu from the post screen and choosing "hard drive diagnostics", which said:
Fail. Return code: 7
At this point I am pretty much running out of ideas to try, so I decide to pop in a Ubuntu live disk and see if I can mount the drive there. After about 5 minutes of it trying to mount the drive it failed and said:
"ntfs_attr_pread: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error. Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/Output error"
So now I'm at a loss. Is there anything I can do to save the data? There was some pretty important data on there. I don't really care if I have to throw the drive away after this I just want to be able to copy the data onto another hard drive.
I appreciate the help.