problem with my seagate 120gb.

trueplaya4ever8

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• Aug 17, 2004

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I was defraging and the power went out and ever since then i cant get into windows, only to the windows xp screen then blue screen....... could it have killed my hard drive? is there anyway to save it? or do i just have to reformat and reinstall?

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• Aug 17, 2004

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It sounds like some files got corrupted when they were being moved within the hard drive.
I am assuming that your hard drive shows up in your BIOS... I would check that first.

Anyways... I think a reformat and reinstall of windows would suit you well.

 

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so many things will be erased you sure there is no more options?

 

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• Aug 17, 2004

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you can try a windows xp repair, or just reinstalling

 

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• Aug 17, 2004

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Yeah you can just use the cd and repair it, that should fix it, I dont think it erases any programs.

 

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ABOUT TO TRY

 

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• Aug 18, 2004

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how do you use the windows xp recovery console

 

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• Aug 18, 2004

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I think you type in the actual command for restoring certain files, google is a big help in finding instructions on how to effectively use the repair thing, I used it a long time ago and it does work....but my prob was too big and I ended up just wiping/reinstalling....

 

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• Aug 19, 2004

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don't use the recovery console. you want to basically do a repair install of winows, which just basically overlaps the windows u have. then you should back up the stuff u need, reformat, and do a fresh install of windows.