Hard drive problems.

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So my friend called me up saying he thinks his computer got a virus because it won't boot. I go over there, take a look at it and it won't ever go past the XP screen where the dots go across right before the log in screen...once it gets there the computer resets itself and starts the booting all over again and loops.

So I try the basic stuff, reset cmos(I've seen this work before), boot into safe mode and none of it worked. So then I thought I'd get a bit more fancy and bring my computer over and try to slave the HD to my computer and get the info off that way. It didn't work. The computer sees it, but it won't open it. When I right click it and go to the properties of the HD it shows 0kb used and 0kb available. It also shows the partition type as RAW.

Whats weird though is that when I go to the bios and pull up the disk properties it sees it as a 120gig HD, which it is.

So I was wondering if there are any other ways to get his files off of there before we wipe the HD and reload Windows.

Thanks.
 
put the HD back into your friends computer and try booting to a live disk, I use BartPE, see if it can see the disk, then try running some utilities from there...

edit: also try Ultimate Boot CD for Windows found here
 
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