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disk read error occurred

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by 24jedi, 2003/11/25.

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  1. 2003/11/25
    24jedi Lifetime Subscription

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    I am receiving this error on a Dell Laptop. The HD is covered by warranty. The data however, wasn't backed up in the last four months.

    My gut feeling is a dead HD. The BIOS see's the HD during the boot process, but I can't seem to get access to it.

    Does anyone have any tips or trick for getting access to the data ?

    Thanks in advance
    Don
     
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    In the past, when I had a drive starting to die, I was able to boot to DOS with a Win98 startup disk and was able to copy data from a partition (D:) that was still accessible even though the C: partition was fooked. I used XCOPY32.EXE, a standard DOS program, to copy data to another hard drive.

    If you boot to DOS and cannot access the data, I'd say your drive is hosed.
     
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