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Name: Summer
Date: October 8, 2009 at 18:50:26 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Subcategory: Hard Drives
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My hard drive recently died so I purchased and installed a new one but now I'm getting the ..reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device.....I do not have any system restore disks as the pc did not come with any and I can't do a system recovery with the old hard drive in the pc due to it is dead. The boot up screen told me that the hard drive was BAD to replace and reboot. Please help!



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Name: T-R-A
Date: October 8, 2009 at 19:13:26 Pacific
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Without some type of restore media, there's not much you can do. Where did you purchase the machine (it should have had something to restore from...)


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Response Number 2
Name: Summer
Date: October 8, 2009 at 19:24:20 Pacific
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Was purchased at a retail store but the only restore is the System Restore within Windows itself. I've searched HP's website to try to locate the recovery disks but no luck there.


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Response Number 3
Name: Summer
Date: October 8, 2009 at 19:25:16 Pacific
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Is there anyway I can possible salvage the data from the bad hard drive?


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Response Number 4
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: October 8, 2009 at 20:56:17 Pacific
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You should be able to purchase the restore disks from HP.

If the drive still spins up and you've only experienced a software crash then you should be able to recover data from it. If the drive is dead and not spinning, then maybe you can, depending on how much money you want to spend on it.


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Response Number 5
Name: T-R-A
Date: October 8, 2009 at 22:50:22 Pacific
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This may be what you need (though the image shows a Dell restore disk):

http://www.pacificgeek.com/product....


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Response Number 6
Name: Summer
Date: October 9, 2009 at 17:02:37 Pacific
Reply:

Thank you so much for your help. It is well appreciated. The hard drive does spin...it's noisy but spins...how would I go about recovering the data?


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Response Number 7
Name: T-R-A
Date: October 9, 2009 at 17:45:20 Pacific
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"The hard drive does spin...it's noisy but spins...how would I go about recovering the data?"

The noise is not a good sign. If you recover the data it'll need to be soon. There's been a recent discussion of recovering data:

http://www.computing.net/answers/wi...

It would depend on how comfortable you are at downloading and burning ISOs and working inside Linux (plus the fact that you may or may not be able to read data from the drive any longer). There are also other Windows or DOS-based recovery programs (SpinRite comes to mind), but they generally are based on the fact that you have a relatively working system (which you don't appear to have), or the ability to boot from CD or floppy. Slaving the drive would possibly be an option as well. But, as DAVE mentioned, the alternatives are not cheap, as professional restore services can charge upwards of $1000 for a single drive...


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