1720-Smart hard Drive dectects Failure

I search through the post and didn't see anything I though might help me so I posted here.I was defraging my computer when it locked up . I tried ctrl>alt>delete and I couldn't get it to free up so I shut it down and turned it back on. Now i keep getting this 1720-smart hard drive dectect failure. I pushed the f1 boot icon in the lower left conor and I keep getting this attribute failed# 05 intitalizing intel (r) boot agent version 4.0.19 pxe build 083 (wfm 2.01,Rpl v2.73 window. I tried my restore cd and also tried to boot it with the 6 boot up floopy disk i made. I running widows xp home. Any suggestions. I would like to be able to save some data I have on here for my work also.


Need help bad

Casie

 

Hello Casie and welcome,

Bad news - the drive has failed. My only suggestion would be to get to the drive's MFG site and look around for utilities to access the drive possibly saving data or perhaps someone here knows of one. It would help to know the drive's brand. Or take it into a repair shop and see if data retrieval is possible.

Sounds like you didn't do backups of your user data. For reference on what to do http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=37206

Regards - Charles