unmountable volume

[Guest gracetai]

When power up my labtop, it say unmountable volume so I slaved it but when I

try to see the hdd, it says "F" (which is the drive) and it says it not

accessible. Does that means my hdd is spoilt? Thanks

[Guest Ron Martell]

Re: unmountable volume

 

gracetai <gracetai@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>When power up my labtop, it say unmountable volume so I slaved it but when I

>try to see the hdd, it says "F" (which is the drive) and it says it not

>accessible. Does that means my hdd is spoilt? Thanks

 

Yes. That is a classic symptom of a dead hard drive.

 

It may be possible to recover really important data from the drive,

but doing so will probably be expensive and require the services of a

data recovery expert.

 

Good luck

 

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

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[Guest Andrew E.]

RE: unmountable volume

 

Try booting to xp cd,recovery,in recovery type:CHKDSK F: /R

After type:EXIT You can also go to the hd mfg web site,download thier

MS-DOS hd utility,boot to the cd or floppy with the utility,run the tests..

 

"gracetai" wrote:

> When power up my labtop, it say unmountable volume so I slaved it but when I

> try to see the hdd, it says "F" (which is the drive) and it says it not

> accessible. Does that means my hdd is spoilt? Thanks

[Guest gracetai]

RE: unmountable volume

 

Many thanks for the suggestions, yes indeed fried.

 

"Andrew E." wrote:

> Try booting to xp cd,recovery,in recovery type:CHKDSK F: /R

> After type:EXIT You can also go to the hd mfg web site,download thier

> MS-DOS hd utility,boot to the cd or floppy with the utility,run the tests..

>

> "gracetai" wrote:

>

> > When power up my labtop, it say unmountable volume so I slaved it but when I

> > try to see the hdd, it says "F" (which is the drive) and it says it not

> > accessible. Does that means my hdd is spoilt? Thanks