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Disk boot failure

Corny

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You found the problem - the haddrive is failing or quite possible beyond hope.
IF there is important stuff on the HD, you can get it to a professional and possibly rescue some data.
cost .. at least 300ish $, with almost no upper limit, depending on the damage.

IF you plan to do that do NOT power it up again!

if the data is not worth that amount of money buy a new harddrive, reinstall everything and see if you can salvage something from the old harddrive with some free rescue tools.
 
Usually when there is a beeping noise from the motherboard on a bootup, it indicates a hardware failure. Especially with a disc boot error, I agree with corny. After having one HD failure, I always back up my data on a separate external HD (at least data that cannot be recovered easily like music).

You can attempt to have a PC expert try to salvage your HD but most of the time it is beyond hope. I have a PC wiz friend that does it from $50-$100 (the quoted $300 from Corny seems steep for any PC fix). Usually, it is one of those lessons you learn once and remember to back up your important data once a month to not let any of those situations happen again.
 
One thing you can try before writing off the hard drive completely is to re-seat (disconnect completely and reconnect firmly) the IDE or SATA cable connection to the mother board and to the hard drive. Also re-seat the power cable.

This will probably not work but it's worth trying. Once you receive the dreaded "Disk Boot Failure", it's time to shop around for a new hard drive.

You can find some great deals online at www.tigerdirect.com !
 
maxpowr9 said:
I have a PC wiz friend that does it from $50-$100 (the quoted $300 from Corny seems steep for any PC fix).
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I seriously doubt that your pc wiz friend has a cleanroom laboratory that you need for recovering data from defect harddrives. your friend might try it with some recovery tools that i mentioned but they will not help you when there is any hardware problem with the drive. it will only make it worse.
and the $300 are just if they are able to fix it by changing the controller ...
 
I agree with Corny on the price, and most people who only have a some tools for recovering will charge you at least 300 bucks.

My new build beeps 1 short upon boot up and post. But it is very common for new pre built pcs not even to have a bios/motherboard speaker and that means no beep codes.

"The computer POST (Power On Self Test) tests the computer, insuring that it meets the necessary system requirements before booting up. If the computer fails the POST, the computer then returns a beep code indicating what is causing the computer not to pass the POST. Generally, if the computer Posts properly, you will receive a single beep (with some computer BIOS manufacturers it may beep twice).

Below are the AMI BIOS Beep codes that can occur. However, because of the wide variety of different computer manufacturers with this BIOS, the beep codes may vary.

Beep Code Descriptions
1 short DRAM refresh failure
2 short Parity circuit failure
3 short Base 64K RAM failure
4 short System timer failure
5 short Process failure
6 short Keyboard controller Gate A20 error
7 short Virtual mode exception error
8 short Display memory Read/Write test failure
9 short ROM BIOS checksum failure
10 short CMOS shutdown Read/Write error
11 short Cache Memory error
1 long, 3 short....Conventional/Extended memory failure
1 long, 8 short....Display/Retrace test failed

http://techtalkplus.net/computer_postbeep_codes_info.htm
 
There may be a very simple and very cheap solution to this. Store the defective harddrive for a while (2 weeks, a month?). Then hook it up to another system and copy the data as soon as you can. Don't be selective, browsing your old harddrive. Just copy, sort it out later.

This may sound silly to do so, but it helped my to salvage my data from a defective harddrive on two occasions.

Oh, concerning free tools to try to recover data, try Testdisk. A really great program, see the site .. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
 
My 2c!

A follow-on to GoE's storage recommendation...

I've had success placing the suspect HDD into a zip-loc bag and then into a freezer. 2-3 hours later reconnect the HDD and follow GOE's recommendation to COPY EVERYTHING if the drive does spin-up and become usable.

The freezing affects the mechanical tolerances that may be causing either the heads or platters to malfunction.

Best of luck.

B
 
GoErectus said:
Oh, concerning free tools to try to recover data, try Testdisk. A really great program, see the site .. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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GoErectus, just wanted to thank you for the TestDisk recommendation! Hadn't heard of it but it's phenomenal. I had a drive go bad a few years ago and lose NTFS partition information, reverting to RAW. After running Spinrite and a few "RAW recovery tools" under Windows just found with Google'ing, none of them were successful - they always would seem to choke or hang a little way into the scan.

I still had the drive shoved in a drawer with a "Hmmm, maybe someday they'll be some tool that can get the data off of it" and on a whim after your post, last hour tried TestDisk. It found the corrupt former-NTFS partition without issue and right now it's happily copying off the files from it and they're fine. There wasn't anything terribly important or original on this drive (just copies of some music mixes I was making), but it's nice to see a tool that will work. It's totally badass. Thanks so much! ..|
 
^ I use TestDisk all the time.

It's built right into the operating system for most Linux distros. You don't even need to install anything - just run the command "testdisk" from the shell. It will recover data from just about any file system, from just about any OS.
 
Back it up NOW. I mean - go get one of those portable back drives and back up everything that you want to save and do it TODAY.
 
Agreed with shainski! It looks like it's on its last legs and you probably shouldn't take this successful boot as indicating it's magically healed or something. The next time you turn your PC on, it could work flakily - or not at all. The constant read action of copying your files off to the external drive might even push it into failing territory, but it's a better technique than waiting.
 
i can only emphasize it again. back up now. this further supports my suspicion that this is a mechanical failure, it can happen at any time again.
 
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