To all hardware experts

[uspatriotsf]

Well, this is what I do for a living, data recovery that is. Depending on the size of the HDD they are very inexpensive these days. As opposed to using your warranty, I would just buy a new HDD, as depending on who you bought your computer from most of them want the old HDD back. Install the new one as the master, install XP on it and connect the other as a slave. Then move all of you important files over to the new one. I would then trash the failed one as it sounds as if it is on its way out.

You are very lucky you got it up and running again with chkdsc. That is pretty rare with the error code that you got. And as far as data recovery goes, you'd be looking at a minimum of $1500 USD to get your data back. This is my suggestion to all: BACKUP YOUR FILES REGURLARLY!

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