Doesn't sound like the hard drive is bad. Is the drive recognized in the
bios? If so, try a repair reinstall:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
"Erehwon" <> wrote in message
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> I think my hard drive is dead but thought I'd check here to see if anyone
> can suggest something I've missed.
>
> Dell 8300 Running XP SP3 with all updates.
>
> Combination of wind and ice caused several power outages last night.
> Unfortunately my delay in replacing the system battery appeared to also
> result in the setting to not restart after loss of power being ignored so
> the computer also cycled off and back on with the outages. This morning I
> have a blue screen indicating UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. I did finally
> replace the battery but same message after trying to restart..
>
> If I try booting to safe mode with command prompt, it appears that the
> boot
> process starts with a page or two of drivers being loaded from
> "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\windows\syste m32\drivers\" ending
> with
> "agp440.sys" followed a short time later by the blue screen error
> message..
>
> If I boot from a floppy, and then try to access hard drive I get an
> "invalid
> drive specification" error so I can't even read any of the files off the
> drive.
>
> I had a list of BIOS settings from earlier this week and verified they
> match
> current settings. I've got my files backed up but don't have a drive
> image
> so I'm still going to have to reload from scratch if I replace the drive -
> not exactly what I was planning for my Christmas vacation.
>
> And to think I was just looking at external drives for backup last week .
> .
> .
>
>
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