Thanks for all this advice! It turns out I found a simple little STUPID facet of my registry search! Apparently for whatever reason, due to...
Here's a little mystery. My laptop, running Win98se, is asking for VSHINIT.VXD upon startup and not finding it. I have to hit enter to...
At the risk of sounding naive, "BOOTEX.LOG "? I could attach it. It's somewhat long. I noticed that for the first time I had a bunch of...
BIG problem - The degubwiz file doesn't run in DOS! Since I cannot currently get into windows on this machine I cannot run it. I also cannot...
Would that be helpful for me to post such here?
I have an old machine which suddenly started getting BSOD's in Windows 2000 sp4. I was trying to access a file from a networked machine when...
Once again, I will intersperse for comments for clarity: << Sounds like you're right on top of things. >> Thanks. However I still need to...
I now have lost TWO WD hard drives in the course of several weeks, prematurely. One a week old, the other 2 years old. I don't put a lot of...
Thank you for all the furhter notes. I agree with what you said about using a boot program to access NTFS. What is available other than...
Thanks for the reply. First, I apologize for the typo in the subject line. Should have read "ANYONE ", of course. No one will ever hire me...
This is to call out help from the 'big guns' of hard drive repair and data recovery. I already have a thread, here:...
Thanks for the added comments. One important note: I said somewhere back there (I know it's a long thread) that I've eliminated the printed...
More news... While is was a logical assumption before that it was the board (same board also caused no recognition on new drive), now that I've...
Here's an update! Looks like I've narrowed it down to likely being the controller board. Since the board on the new drive was obviously...
Yes... I've been trying to get this discussion back to this one thread. I only put posts out in a couple other trheads to try to get more...
Jim, Yes... I concluded the drive probably had problems. I was just hoping someone could suggest a workaround to get the data off. I'm...
Thanks again Jim.... As for your suggestions, though - I found myself WISHING it were only that easy! I can't tell you how many times I found...
Thanks for the follow-up here, Jim. Just for a brief summary to address the issue back here, let me state that I appreciate the idea to use the...
Jim, I had hoped for that to happen (getting data off when the drive seems available). However there are a couple problems. One, is that...
I don't know about a FAVORITE hard drive but I know I've recently had a devastating experience with a Western Digital drive. Naturally a single...
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