Name: Anonymouse 2006-10-04 16:24
I currently have a faulty 80.00 gigabyte HD for my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop. Here is some information I found on the label:
I was running my computer overnight when what looked like a BIOS error read "Optical Disk not found. Hard Drive not found." I turned off the computer. The next day, I booted it up and I heard some funny, but faint noises from the HD. The computer didn't give me any errors but if I ran the computer for more than about 45 minutes the computer would just freeze up, without giving me an error message. I tried repairing the windows xp software (from booting from the Windows XP installation CD), but that didn't seem to have any effect. Next, I used the chkdsk /r command in the command line program on Windows, which took about three hours before I got this message:
STOP: c000021a
Unknown Hard Error
I also was hearing some loud whirring (if not grinding) noises and the BIOS wasn't registering the hard drive.
I was wondering: Can my hard drive be repaired, and if so, can the data on the disk be salvaged?
I have some pirated software on my now defective HD, so would it be safe to take it to some of the data recovery specialists I looked up on google?