Windows XP Disc Corrupt

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by bobsumo, May 20, 2008.

  1. bobsumo

    bobsumo Bit poster

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    Hi,

    We seem to have a totally broken XP disc which we desperately need recovering. Initially, we were getting an error on boot:

    "NTLDR is Missing"

    And followed the following article to fix it:

    http://kb.parallels.com/en/4751

    But we couldn't even boot to the disc. We then tried re-installing windows and then mounting the disc. This just said the disc was corrupt.

    Now we get an error:

    "A disc read error occured"

    We really need the data off this drive, so hope someone can help.

    Thanks!

    Bob
     
  2. mavidal

    mavidal Product Expert

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    Sounds like your hard drive is fried. You can try a program like Spin rite from www.grc.com to see if you can get the surface to refresh to be able to recover it.

    I would also recommend that you try restorer 2000 pro as this is a low level file recovery program that may be able to get to your drive.

    MV
     
  3. bobsumo

    bobsumo Bit poster

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    To clarify, this is on a parallels drive not a physical entity.

    Thanks
     

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