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[Rene Bartosh]

If you have a windows machine you can attach the HDD to (through
native IDE and not through e.g. a USB-> IDE adaptor), then you can use
SpeedFan from http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php to check the SMART
values - net connection required. This will give you an idea as to
whether the drive is on the way out physically.

If that SMART data comes up clean then it may just be the data which
is corrupted. You probably have little choice but to reinstall the
operating system, however there are various tools available in terms
of data recovery if there is also important data on the drive -
grc.com's spinrite comes to mind.

Regards,

Rene

2008/5/16 gordon arnott <agarnott at gmail.com>:
> I have a Hard Drive  that I am unable to activated.
> This HD is the operating system drive on a compaq desktop.
>
> I am unable to fire up the machine !
>
> Have run some Recovery software over this HD .
> This is giving me error messages  like
>
>>>  cant find  [ root image ]
>>> [ unmountiable Boot volume ]
>
> I have very limited knowledge in this area of computing and are asking for
> assistance to resolve this delema!
>
> Many thanks   Gordon
>
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