I think my Acer Aspire One hitachi Hard Drive is dead or dying, HELP!

Hi,

I'm at a loss here. My netbook crashed yesterday with the blue screen of death. I got to the screen asking whether to start in safe mode etc. Regardless of which option I try here, the computer gets as far as the Windows XP screen, then flashes the blue screen of death, then to the Acer opening screen with the "F2 to enter setup", then returns to the "We apologize for the inconvenience" screen with the various safe mode, etc. options. An endless loop of this.

If I try Safe Mode with Networking a long stream of .sys file names flash by preceded by:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)patition(2)\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\

before it goes to the blue screen of death, then the opening Acer screen, then returns to the "We apologize for the inconvenience" screen without ever going to the Windows XP screen.

A friend removed the hard drive today, connected external power to it and using a SATA to USB cable plugged it into another computer. The other computer was unable to read the drive.

Do I have any hope of getting data off this thing? The thing that I find odd is that it must be partially reading the drive to get as far as the Windows XP screen (no?) and if it can partially read the drive doesn't that mean that mechanically the drive mechanisms are working?

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated. I desperately need some of the data on the drive.

Thanks in advance.

Maguire

 

I was able to salvage the data from a failed hard drive using the tools in
Hiren's BootCD 13.1 - All in one Bootable CD » www.hiren.info
One of the hard disk tools corrected the hard drive well enough to recognise the drive and to read and save the files
The drive still would not boot though as there were to many errors

 

usually when a harddrive is about to fail, you see a warning when you turn the laptop ON. The warning tells you to backup your data before the harddrive fail completely.

you should look into the website of the harddrive manufacturer. they usually offer free specialised that allows you to scan the drive and possibly repair it. Some of them recognise harddrives on usb encloser but others don't. That said you should be able to install them on a CD or a usb stick and then scan the harddrive in DOS mode.

the blue screen of death often means that there is something wrong with windows.

 

Tomcat57,

Is there anything like this Hiren's Boot CD that can boot from a memory stick? There is no CD drive in my netbook.

Maguire

 

if your memory stick is big enough and u have the made it bootable using some program which i'm not sure of , it should work. Its something like HP bootable media tool or something. I used it to flash my G73's vBIOS...

Look at the first post in this link. It has the tool and files you need to make your stick bootable.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/515309-how-fix-your-gsod-blues.html

This should make your thing boot then.

 

Thanks TomJG90!