On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:02:02 +0100, in sci.electronics.design Eeyore
wrote:

Never seen this before.

A HDD of mine (IBM Deskstar 20GB IC35L020AVER07-0) 'died' when I restarted
Windows (XP btw FWIW). Windows shut down OK seemingly but wouldn't restart.

It totally 'locked up' the PC with no error message. Never seen anything quite
like that before so it took me a little while to pinpoint it. The BIOS found the
drive OK btw.

Anyway, I got things sorted and then re-attached it as a secondary drive.

Trying to look at it, Windows Explorer 'froze' for a bit but it did load a drive
icon eventually. However Windows Explorer was of no further help.

I then used XP's command.com and got the cryptic message 'cyclic redundancy
error'.

Any ideas what's up ? Is the drive destined for silicon hell or is it
recoverable ? I'm wondering if the system area's data's been trashed for
example.

Graham


try a linux cd-live boot disk, may be of some help.Some linux things
state they can recover windoze stuff
FWIW I tried the latest Ubuntu CD live yesterday, thought it was not
very good, possibly a bit joe public!

Knoppix may be better ,more nerdy, (Warning 1980's graphics)



martin