I'm working on a friend's PC trying to get the hard disk back up and running. A little bit of history:
First error : Floppy Diskette seek Failure - no floppy drive configured on the PC
Second error: BSOD with STOP 00000024
If I try to boot to SAFE mode it basically just loops back to reboot.
Attempted Vista Recovery booting to a CD but it does not show anything to recover.
I was able to boot the PC using Knoppix CD and retrieve the picture files that my friend wanted so bad, but I still don't know how to attempt to recover the hard disk (assuming that it is recoverable. I have had people mention the Ultimate Boot CD but I don't know how to use it and I'm afraid of running a test which may completely destroy the hard disk. Knowing that I was able to retrieve the files using Knoppix tells me that the data is still out there - it's a problem with starting up.
I attempted to hook drive up to 2 different PCs (1 Windows 7 and 1 Windows XP). The Windows 7 system said disk needed to be formatted before use, and the XP system said the drive was 'corrupt and unreadable.
This is a follow up to a previous post I had for this problem. Not sure if I should have opened this new post or continued in the older one (not sure if it was closed or not).
I'm not sure if this could be a virus infection of some sort messing up the boot or truly a hardware problem. If this needs to be moved to the appropriate forum, please do so.