[Revolting cat!]

"Broken lines, broken strings,
Broken threads, broken springs,
Broken idols, broken heads,
People sleeping in broken beds.
Ain't no use jiving
Ain't no use joking
Everything is broken.

Seem like every time you stop and turn around
Something else just hit the ground"

-- Bob Dylan Everything is Broken

[sweetliberty]

[Dec31,1999]

Never keep anything of importance on a hard drive. Especially if you run Winblows. That'll teach ya.

Anyway, reboot and replace Windows if possible.

[TxBec]

My son is going to type what he does:

When my comp crashes and when I reboot it says there isn't a hdd, all I do is unplug the A: Drive and my comp ends up working again. If it crashes again and says there is no hdd again, I plug the A: Drive back in. Then for some reason even when it is plugged back in it says there is no A: Drive, but my comp works. BUT IF EVERY THING ELSE FAILS, I just use Norton Ghost to restore my hdd back to normal(No messing with the A: Drive anymore)until it crashes again.(Which it will probably do in another month or so.)

[Born Conservative]

bttt

[RightWhale]

My HP has eaten two hard disks in its short lifetime. Everything gone, start over, no way to recover. They'll give you a new disk, but that isn't the point. I have a USB hard disk now for data backup since the chassis won't accept a second disk.

[savedbygrace]

Try Data Rescue:

Data Rescue

[Paulus Invictus]

Another option for freedom from such XP disasters is called MAC (but Freepers in the majority appear to be addicts to disasters, complex and endless windows fixes and HD repairs).

[varon]

I don't see any references on internet to hard drives being killed all at once.

Only those in the proximity to Judge Greer's courtroom.