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Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM

06/22/2009 08:58:45 PM · #1

Started the computer today and got an error indicating that NRLDR is missing. That went away but then the harddrive wasn't recognized at all.

Any suggestions for data recovery?

Skip

Canon EOS-1D X

06/22/2009 09:02:48 PM · #2

aw, colette, that's awful.

there might be something useful in these articles:
that beginning of the end
the reality of harddrive recovery

good luck!

pixelpig

Sony Alpha a55

Sony DT 50mm f/1.8 SAM

06/22/2009 09:34:13 PM · #3

It might not be your HD. I googled it & read some interesting stuff on microsoft.com. Head up, tail up! Hoping you can get it fixed.

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G

06/22/2009 11:11:59 PM · #4

Thanks for the replies. I have a new hard drive formatting and will try to retrieve the data from the old drive or at least try and defrag it. From some of the stuff I've been reading it may be that the disc was getting precariously close to full, too many files in the root folder or the boot sector too fragmented..

Nikon D800

06/22/2009 11:21:12 PM · #5

ughhhh that JUST happened to me THIS MORNING TOO... lost my macbook, for the 2nd time... No 'clicking' tho so I'm taking it into Apple tomorrow to see if anything can still be salvaged... out of warranty of course so i'll have to do everything myself, so annoying.

thankfully i backed up a few weeks ago and didn't lose much

ambaker

Google Glass Google Glass

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

06/23/2009 12:02:16 AM · #6

Originally posted by AP:

A Mac?!!! Say it ain't so. Nothing bad ever happens with a Mac. See the commercials. You must have got a counterfeit one. (Sorry to hear about your trouble. I hate it when hard drives die, and these days they die completely. I had one about 10 years ago, that you could thump the computer to get it to spin up. That gave it about another year of life, which was more than enough time to get everything off.)

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

06/23/2009 09:40:43 AM · #7

It appears that the circuit board for the HD is toast. No whirring sounds whatsoever and the BIOS does not show the drive in the list of hard drives.

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

06/23/2009 10:15:54 AM · #8

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

It appears that the circuit board for the HD is toast. No whirring sounds whatsoever and the BIOS does not show the drive in the list of hard drives.

As failures go, that's certainly not the worst possible outcome. If you *really* need the data off the drive, a data recovery service can swap the control board and recovery should then be a breeze. There are much more destructive failure modes.
Still not a pleasant experience though, I know.

ETA:
Make sure it's the drive and not the controller. If the drive is still unrecognizable when connected to another computer as a slave then it's the drive.

Message edited by author 2009-06-23 10:17:18.

csolomon1

Canon EOS-50D

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

06/23/2009 10:25:43 AM · #9

As a resort it is possible to restore the NRLDR which its just the operating system loader, here are a few steps you can take to attempt this recovery, place a operating system disk in and reboot the computer to it, note that it cant be just a restore disk but must be a full version of OS, once you have booted up to the disk there is a menu that says recovery console, once in the command screen choose the disk you want to recover tipically its 1 then hit enter unless you have a dual boot system, then type in chkdsk /r /f