WD Caviar SE SATA HDD Wont Boot to XPClosed

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Hello Guys

I am so Sad with my WD Caviar SE SATA HDD.
It just ran fine until today morning when the PC wouldnt boot to XP. 
POST went fine, so did the loading thing of Windows LOGO.
After that the PC keeps on restarting and halted on POST.

I only saw a message that HDD S.M.A.R.T is bad, Backup and Replace.
But only once I could get into XP and started copying some files, and the PC restarted  - it keeps on doing this. 

I ran the WD diag tool and it sees all the files within that 250 GB C:\ only HDD partition. 

So How to copy those files to Another HDD??? 
Or, Any way to Reinstate the Partition?

xpcman · Answer

If the SMART system tells you the drive is bad there is little chance the you can access the files. It's time to replace the drive and re-install Windows. You might be able to use the drive as a secondary drive and be able to salvage some of the data.  Sorry for the bad news.

jnathan · Answer

Its time to be replaced I know that.
But I wanna know how to recover the data from this ailing drive. There is no sound so, physically it seems in better state than other sound making drives with ba sectors. The drive wont even let the primary drive to boot to XP Desktop. so you know how bad the situation is. 

Once I had the same typa problem and i hooked this drive as slave with a Mastr drive and Norton System Works reinstated the broken partition. But now I dont have the hold of that software. Anyone else with any other suggestion?

xpcman · Answer

You might try this program

https://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Free-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html?tag=mncol

Good Luck

xpcman · Answer

This sounds like a logic board problem - some people have transferred the circuit board from another drive and been able to read the data from the broken drive.  The problem is in finding an exact matching drive.

WD Caviar SE SATA HDD Wont Boot to XP

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