gleslie07
January 14th, 2009, 02:24 AM
Unfortunately, I'm stuck with Windows Vista on my main computer. I've run Ubuntu on my other computer and laptop for a little over a year now, so I'm somewhat familiar with it at this point.
I had a string of problems with Vista for a while. iTunes would often crash (just starting recently), and Vista would become unresponsive. I had to do a hard-reboot on one occasion, and I was greeted with something along the lines of
Windows cannot start because a required boot device is missing
I'm having trouble recreating it because:
C:\ Holds Windows
and
D:\ Holds the Recovery Partiton
and it's automatically booting the Recovery Partiton.
At this point, I would normally boot the recovery partition or use a recovery disk but I am given a BSOD (on a recovery disk?) about one of the ".sys" files Windows loads when starting the recovery console.
I proceeded to use my trusty Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD and upon booting Partition Editor (gparted), the drives are not located. Any of them. There are the two partitons on /hda and a flash drive on /sda (I think).
BIOS, for the record, recognizes the HDD.
And to make things even better, as I was writing this my hard drive started making that ominous clicking sound I so dread, and Ubuntu greets me with a infinite loop of:
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 0
Any ideas to at least recover the data?
Thanks.
EDIT: set my desktop out for repairs for the failing HDD. I got most of my stuff backed up so I guess it will be ok.
I had a string of problems with Vista for a while. iTunes would often crash (just starting recently), and Vista would become unresponsive. I had to do a hard-reboot on one occasion, and I was greeted with something along the lines of
Windows cannot start because a required boot device is missing
I'm having trouble recreating it because:
C:\ Holds Windows
and
D:\ Holds the Recovery Partiton
and it's automatically booting the Recovery Partiton.
At this point, I would normally boot the recovery partition or use a recovery disk but I am given a BSOD (on a recovery disk?) about one of the ".sys" files Windows loads when starting the recovery console.
I proceeded to use my trusty Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD and upon booting Partition Editor (gparted), the drives are not located. Any of them. There are the two partitons on /hda and a flash drive on /sda (I think).
BIOS, for the record, recognizes the HDD.
And to make things even better, as I was writing this my hard drive started making that ominous clicking sound I so dread, and Ubuntu greets me with a infinite loop of:
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 0
Any ideas to at least recover the data?
Thanks.
EDIT: set my desktop out for repairs for the failing HDD. I got most of my stuff backed up so I guess it will be ok.