I already read the sticky (https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8356).
About last Friday night, the computer would not boot-- it would take me to Automated System Recovery with the many Safe Mode options etc. Every option would display variety of
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System32\ ...
messages. I even got the Blue Screen when I chose certain options (it flashed quickly before rebooting again so I could not read the blue screen message). I put in the WinXP Pro CD and tried to recover by using CHKDSK /r. This worked. I got back into Windows and everything was fine for the time being.
Cut to now: Again, Windows displayed the same problems. It wouldn't boot and took me to the same ASR screen. Again, I popped the CD in, and used CHKDSK /r. BUT, this time a while through the procedure, Windows reports that there is irrepairable damage to some volumes!
I checked the sticky thread earlier and went back to the System Repair Setup of WinXP. Okay, here it should detect my previous install of WinXP and ask me to repair it. But, no installations were found and it asked me to choose one of my partitions to install it. I guess this means my data is way too corrupted.
I only have one drive, a Western Digital Caviar 120GB, and one stick of RAM: a Crucial 512MB SDRAM.
Guys, I'm begging for help. I don't know what to do. I know, I know; after the first incident, I should have backed up all my stuff. But I really have data on the drive that is irreplacable and invaluable. I don't know what to do anymore and I need your help!
I'll be grateful for any help I can receive, even if it's information on how to physically recover my (lost?) data.
Thanks in advance, Daniel
About last Friday night, the computer would not boot-- it would take me to Automated System Recovery with the many Safe Mode options etc. Every option would display variety of
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System32\ ...
messages. I even got the Blue Screen when I chose certain options (it flashed quickly before rebooting again so I could not read the blue screen message). I put in the WinXP Pro CD and tried to recover by using CHKDSK /r. This worked. I got back into Windows and everything was fine for the time being.
Cut to now: Again, Windows displayed the same problems. It wouldn't boot and took me to the same ASR screen. Again, I popped the CD in, and used CHKDSK /r. BUT, this time a while through the procedure, Windows reports that there is irrepairable damage to some volumes!
I checked the sticky thread earlier and went back to the System Repair Setup of WinXP. Okay, here it should detect my previous install of WinXP and ask me to repair it. But, no installations were found and it asked me to choose one of my partitions to install it. I guess this means my data is way too corrupted.
I only have one drive, a Western Digital Caviar 120GB, and one stick of RAM: a Crucial 512MB SDRAM.
Guys, I'm begging for help. I don't know what to do. I know, I know; after the first incident, I should have backed up all my stuff. But I really have data on the drive that is irreplacable and invaluable. I don't know what to do anymore and I need your help!
I'll be grateful for any help I can receive, even if it's information on how to physically recover my (lost?) data.
Thanks in advance, Daniel