My HD disappeared also with bad consequences - need help

maroon · Post by **maroon** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:22 am

I figured no big deal I'll just back up to a restore point a week ago when it was still there and that should fix it. Now windows won't load. The comp stops at a blue screen telling me to do a chkdsk /f. The only problem with that is I can't even get to a command prompt to even try a chkdsk. On a restart it goes through the bios and then it bluescreens.

I think the problem is that I had my swapfile on this drive. I did have a very small swapfile on my c: drive tho. Anyone know how I can get back to my desktop without doing a /format and reinstall?

The Dude · Post by **The Dude** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:36 pm

Boot from your XP CD and do a repair or boot to the recovery console and see if you can run chkdsk from there.

maroon · Post by **maroon** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:18 am

Whew! Thanks, I'm back up and running. Never had a prob with XP so I didn't know what to do.

Now if I can just figure out why my drive disappeared for no reason.....

The Dude · Post by **The Dude** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:49 am

You may want to run a diagnostic program on your hard drive. You should be able to download one from the drive makers site.