Blue screen of death

[jqd510]

I came home today to a blue screen. I tried to restart but it goes to bios and doesn't detect either of my harddrives then comes to the Disk boot failure, insert system disk.

I started it with the win2K cd went to the recovery console did a chkdsk /f but did not help. I was able to see my files but couldn't fixmbr.

I have numerouse files that are not replaceable can anyone please help?

John

[jqd510]

OK, I unplugged the 2nd harddrive and the system booted fine. I am guessing that the 2nd harddrive is making it not boot is there a way to get my files off the 2nd drive the try to formatt it?

[Spider]

It sounds like the drive has failed.

Can you see it in the BIOS settings under devices?

[jqd510]

The drive did fail, luckily it is covered under warranty. I was just wondering if I could get the stuff off the drive but it's not responding at all so I guess it's all gone. :cry2:

[Spider]

Drive data recovery bills are in the thousands ($,$$$.$$) for companies that recover data from drive platters.
Most people don't put that value on their personal data.