Yes, yet another computer help thread. I appreciate any advice/info that can be provided, I know a lot of you are must smarter at this stuff than I am. :smile:
I had been having some computer issues and I had suspected that my hard drive was starting to go bad. Last night my computer wouldn't even boot, every time and in every mode that Windows gave me an option for it gave me the blue screen and said that I needed to run the CHKDSK utility. I ran the recovery console from the WinXP disk and ran CHKDSK /r like it said I should. It got 54% done when the following error came up...
"The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems"
So am I screwed or what?? I didn't have time this morning to try and boot the hard drive to see if the utility did anything, but I would suspect that it didn't. All I really want is to get all my personal files off and drop kick the hard drive into the next county. Also the drive now features a distinct "crackling" sound it didn't have before. Thanks for the help!!
-James
I had been having some computer issues and I had suspected that my hard drive was starting to go bad. Last night my computer wouldn't even boot, every time and in every mode that Windows gave me an option for it gave me the blue screen and said that I needed to run the CHKDSK utility. I ran the recovery console from the WinXP disk and ran CHKDSK /r like it said I should. It got 54% done when the following error came up...
"The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems"
So am I screwed or what?? I didn't have time this morning to try and boot the hard drive to see if the utility did anything, but I would suspect that it didn't. All I really want is to get all my personal files off and drop kick the hard drive into the next county. Also the drive now features a distinct "crackling" sound it didn't have before. Thanks for the help!!
-James