Re: Won't boot and no hard drive detected in system recovery

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:29:45 -0500, kwond wrote:

> The last driver displayed is consistently crcdisk.sys.

That's *always* the last thing shown. Then the both process goes silent for
a while - which is totally normal - until the GUI starts. Unfortunately the
trouble spot is therefore not at all clear, since it is happening during
the silent period...

You could try to make a backup boot CD (such as EASEUS Disk Copy), but
*please* do it on a separate computer so that *nothing* is happening to or
on your original hard drive. Then boot from that CD and copy your entire
hard drive to an external USB drive of sufficient capacity.

This will help to cover your butt (OK, preserve your data) while you try to
solve (or get help solving) the problem.

I suspect your hard drive is failing, but it could be as simple as a system
file that got corrupted. I can't offer any help there, sorry.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:58:27 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

> Then the both process goes silent for a while

the *boot* process, of course.

I do know better than to trust the spell checker, but I can be careless :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)