System hung in reboot cycle

Morestuff · 04-14-2009, 11:26 AM

Hitachi 40GB HD
My XP system suddenly started rebooting and never gets to the operating system. I moved the HD to a Win2000 system as a 2nd drive and got the same thing. Used a external power supply and IDE to USB cable and got the same results with another XP and Vista system. The drive fails to mount on my Linus system.
I would like to recover my files from the drive but its not worth sending the drive to a "recovery" firm.
Any idea how to get the drive so I can read the files?

**simpswr** · 04-14-2009, 01:44 PM

and welcome to the Forum

See if this helps:

Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer?

It's not free, but GetDataBack has worked well for data recovery. You can try with the free version then pay if it can recover the data

04-14-2009, 11:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
Morestuff Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1 OS: xp	System hung in reboot cycle Hitachi 40GB HD My XP system suddenly started rebooting and never gets to the operating system. I moved the HD to a Win2000 system as a 2nd drive and got the same thing. Used a external power supply and IDE to USB cable and got the same results with another XP and Vista system. The drive fails to mount on my Linus system. I would like to recover my files from the drive but its not worth sending the drive to a "recovery" firm. Any idea how to get the drive so I can read the files?

04-14-2009, 01:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
simpswr Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 12,216 OS: XP, Vista, Win 7	Re: System hung in reboot cycle and welcome to the Forum See if this helps: Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer? It's not free, but GetDataBack has worked well for data recovery. You can try with the free version then pay if it can recover the data __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help How to post a Screen Shot \| PC running slow? Last edited by simpswr; 04-14-2009 at 01:45 PM.