PF Boob
July 22nd, 2003, 10:08 AM
I dont have the exact system specs, as its a friends computer, however I know its a gigabyte kt266 board with an XP1600+ cpu and 512mb of pc2100ddr and a 40gig IBM 5600rpm HD. The issue is this, about a week ago the system stopped booting into windows. After the bios had done all its work and it began looking for an OS, the HD would make some clicking noises, 5 to be exact over a 15 second period and then windows came up with the equivalent of a bsod. Tried reinstalling windows, no dice, the bios picked up that the HD was beginning to fail with an error message.
So my friend purchased a new HD, a Western Digital 40gig 7200rpm 8mb drive. I installed XP for him, everything went well, and I installed the old IBM drive as a slave so he could try and recover as much data as possible. Here is my question, he has been able to recover basically all of his data, except for 2 important folders. 1. Under documents and settings, in his user profile, and 2. His folder which contains his quicken. When he tries to access these files it says "access denied, the selected files or folders are not available". My question is if that is just a bad sector on the HD or if the existing windows permissions are denying him access. He has administrative rights, and as far as he knows did not do anything special to the files aside from saving them under his administrator profile.
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
So my friend purchased a new HD, a Western Digital 40gig 7200rpm 8mb drive. I installed XP for him, everything went well, and I installed the old IBM drive as a slave so he could try and recover as much data as possible. Here is my question, he has been able to recover basically all of his data, except for 2 important folders. 1. Under documents and settings, in his user profile, and 2. His folder which contains his quicken. When he tries to access these files it says "access denied, the selected files or folders are not available". My question is if that is just a bad sector on the HD or if the existing windows permissions are denying him access. He has administrative rights, and as far as he knows did not do anything special to the files aside from saving them under his administrator profile.
Thanks in advance for your feedback.