A very stupid, unfortunate incident occured but I think 2 out of my 3 hard drives are corrupted.

Both are IDE, one is 60gb one is 30gb I think.

My computer stopped turning on, I guess the power supply stopped working. I swapped mobo + power supply and tried to boot from existing HDD but got the "Inaccessible Boot Device" error BSOD.

I tried and tried but I think it got worse. The last thing I did .. just now was use a bootable HDD with win2k on it, make that primary and try to view the other HDD in windows, but that resulted in a bunch of gibberish right after POST.. now my mobo won't POST even without anything connected.

Forgive me, but all I can say right now is WTF. Did my failed power supply cause this? This is sickening.. I lost all of my music, pictures, documents, eveything. All 10 years of it. F$^K. I was recently planning to by a DVD writer (didn't get around to picking one up) to back my data up, and then this.

So who do I hand money to in Honolulu to tell me go cry in my pillow because my hard drives are paperweights or tell me to go buy myself an ice cream cone because they can save it?

Stupid power supply. F#%K.

Thank You Very Much in Advance.

 

i had desktop hard drive on Dell computer that got corrupted. Reinstalled windows XP like 2 times but didn't work and den took the hard drive to Circuit City and they charged me 80 dollars and recovered most of the data.

 

Ouch!! You shoulda Made a back up or RAID it!!

 

Hey daniel sorry but I havent done any computer technician duties since '04 some I way rusty but still remembers some stuff and gotta refer to my text books sometimes. The reason that it isnt booting up is because the IDE controller on the Hard Drive is looking for the one that was previously installed. Youre going to need to put the HD in a computer with the same mobo and change the IDE controller in Device Manager to the default MS one. Go to controller properties -> update driver -> dont search, choose driver to install -> select "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller", then shut down. Then, move the hard disk to the new PC, it will detect the IDE controller.

Ill refer back to my text books from college to get more answers.

-Brent, you wanna chime in on this.. Since your skills arent rusty at all and Im sure you got all your certs.

 

give me a call, i got recovery software that i can try to dig up.... you will need a free hardrive as the data will be copied. do not save any recovered data on the suspect hardrive as this may overwrite the files.

 

this is a proper procedure, however, the original motherboard is dead so it is not an option. it will be impossible to find an identical 10+ year old motherboard

did you try safe mode??? hold f8 key...... the OS is probably trying to load drivers for devices that are no longer exsistent giving you BSOD

 

give mea call 6887436 bring them to kailua i can see what i can do with them it will cost you for an orange dreammachine and ill need a drive to put the data on lmk ini dont answer just leave a message

 

give me a call if you have questions...

 

Thanks guys..

I need to work with my system a bit more, I didn't have time to meddle with the past few days. I have to square away my PS and see if the MOBO powers up.

Thanks again.