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Hi, I'm having problem with my harddisk drive. I use a win7 x64 in drive C. Recently I'm having problem with boot up. My computer is not starting. It is saying 'A Disk error has been occured, press ctrl+alt+delete to reboot' while booting. So i attached the hdd to another pc. But there windows can not access the primary drive of my hdd. All other partitions are in good condition. CHKDSK can not run on that drive. I can recover files from that drive. But I need to boot windows from that drive to backup some important data. Can you help me please?
I'll be highly thankful to you...an not access the primary drive of my hdd. All other partitions are in good condition. CHKDSK can not run on that drive. I can recover files from that drive. But I need to boot windows from that drive to backup some important data. Can you help me please?
I'll be highly thankful to you...

Hi,

you can boot from installation DVD of Win7 and try to repair boot partition.

More info at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... -Windows-7

Another way to detect problem:

1. in System recovery (boot from DVD Win7) select command prompt
and run diskpart.exe
2. type command "list disk" or "list volume"
with "list volume" you can check if your boot partition C: has file system NTFS or RAW
3. type (if your boot volume has number 1)

select volume 1
detail volume

to show details about selected volume.
To quit DISKPART just type exit.

thanks for your help bro. But diskpart says it could not access file system or something like that. It seems like I an gonna loose those data anyway. I should have backed up those earlier.
Anyway, thank you.

thank you for the tips!!! my harddisk also have lil probs. now i can check it out now.. thanks for this....

badhon_raj wrote:Hi, I'm having problem with my harddisk drive. I use a win7 x64 in drive C. Recently I'm having problem with boot up. My computer is not starting. It is saying 'A Disk error has been occured, press ctrl+alt+delete to reboot' while booting. So i attached the hdd to another pc. But there windows can not access the primary drive of my hdd. All other partitions are in good condition. CHKDSK can not run on that drive. I can recover files from that drive. But I need to boot windows from that drive to backup some important data. Can you help me please?
I'll be highly thankful to you...an not access the primary drive of my hdd. All other partitions are in good condition. CHKDSK can not run on that drive. I can recover files from that drive. But I need to boot windows from that drive to backup some important data. Can you help me please?
I'll be highly thankful to you...

Lovely post ! We know that Harddisk is used to store the information .There are many types of harddisk. In my opinion , i think that in the maximum cases , the harddisk problem is a hardware problem. Some cases ,it is a software problem like not connect to cpu . Thanks to read my comment .

I have a fujitsu hard drive. When I boot Bios detects the hard disk but it cannot access it. In the setup screen in CMOS I try the autodetect feature, it again detects the hard drive but cannot read its size. The Bios detects the Hard disk's name but the name isn't really correct. BTW that is my primary hard drive, I have another slave hard drive which is detected. They are IDE hard drives. Now to return to my problem it detects the name of the hard drive something like this Fujitsu MPR3XXX etc. The XXX before were really some numbers. Is this hard drive dead? I again reinstalled Windows to the secondary hard disk and windows setup says that this hard disk cannot be accessed. What should I do?
Hard disk failure happens for several reasons – a power failure, virus infection, a bad installation, and many other things that can lead to strange behaviours.
In this post we will show you how you can diagnose and solve your hard disk problems with the default tools in WIndows 7.
Note: The order is not random. Follow these steps, according to their orders, to see if the issues get solved.

>BIOS detects the hard drive but cannot read its size.
>The Bios detects the Hard disk's name but the name isn't really correct.

Cause of these errors can be bad data cable, hard disk enclosure or corrupted firmware.

cbl wrote:Hi,

you can boot from installation DVD of Win7 and try to repair boot partition.

More info at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... -Windows-7

Another way to detect problem:

1. in System recovery (boot from DVD Win7) select command prompt
and run diskpart.exe
2. type command "list disk" or "list volume"
with "list volume" you can check if your boot partition C: has file system NTFS or RAW
3. type (if your boot volume has number 1)

select volume 1
detail volume

to show details about selected volume.
To quit DISKPART just type exit.

Thanks for the tips.These are really helpful for my hard disk.

cbl wrote:Hi,

you can boot from installation DVD of Win7 and try to repair boot partition.

More info at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... -Windows-7

Another way to detect problem:

1. in System recovery (boot from DVD Win7) select command prompt
and run diskpart.exe

I have tried this option on my PC to recover my data but on command prompt. this command is not working. It gives an error that bad command. Is there any other command to see my data or save my data.

Which version of Windows you have?

Error message is "invalid" or "missing" command?

cbl wrote:Which version of Windows you have?

Error message is "invalid" or "missing" command?

Does version of Windows really matter?

>Does version of Windows really matter?

No, the common commands (like LIST, SELECT etc.) are the same,
just DISKPART in Windows 7 has more good options.

Thanks for the answer.

It seems like I an gonna loose those data anyway. I should have backed up those earlier.

I was also facing such problem since a long time. You've solved my problem. Keep it up.