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Answer» I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with a 200GB Hd, using Xp Pro. I powered up my system and I only get a BLACK screen with a cursor light in the top right hand corner blinking. If I have a HD failure is there nay method of recovering my data?Did you install/run/download anything before this happened? Any recent hardware changes? Can you make sure nothing important plugged into the computer (like USB Flash Drives...) and is the CD drive free?If you suspect HDD failure or problems it's BEST to stop using it immediately... You may get only one chancce to save your data... Find out whose drive is in that machine by logging on at the Dell site and entering your service tag #...this will tell you exactly what components you have in there. Then travel to the drive manuf. site and DLoad their Free diagnostics. Use the file to create a bootable CD and boot to it to test the drive's fitness. The best method of retrieving/saving your data is to hook up the drive as a slave in another working machine...preferably one with a burner so you can backup everything. Good Luck and let us know.When I leave one of my self-made dvds in my CD Drive, my computer does exactly what he says his is doing and just stays on that black screen for a minute or so...The HD is running .....I can feel it.........sometime I get an error message that says Primary disk 0 not found. I turn it off then I get the dreaded black screen of deathQuote from: slingblade on June 22, 2008, 09:05:30 AM The HD is running .....I can feel it......... That does not mean it is OK. Sounds like the hard drive could be faulty.But how do I get data recoveryIf you have access to another computer, I would suggest following Patio's advice here: QUOTE from: patio on June 22, 2008, 08:44:32 AM The best method of retrieving/saving your data is to hook up the drive as a slave in another working machine...preferably one with a burner so you can backup everything. I hooked it up today at work. The drive has two partitions, "F" and "G". Using tools in windows they both appear heathy. The drive stated that it was full. I question this, it is a 200GB and I surely don;t have that much stuff, ANYWAY I opened the drive letter "G" and deleted all that I didn't need, then backed up the other stuff. The drive letter "F" will not let me do anything. The hours glass just keeps on turning, then the "F" drive that was hightlighted dropped down to the "G" drive again. The drive will not allow me to open the "F" drive. Any suggestions?Go to Start/Run and type in chkdsk /r and hit Enter... Select the drive/partition that's not behaving... Let it run til it finishes.... You may get lucky here,

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I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with a 200GB Hd, using Xp Pro. I powered up my system and I only get a BLACK screen with a cursor light in the top right hand corner blinking. If I have a HD failure is there nay method of recovering my data?Did you install/run/download anything before this happened?
Any recent hardware changes?

Can you make sure nothing important plugged into the computer (like USB Flash Drives...) and is the CD drive free?If you suspect HDD failure or problems it's BEST to stop using it immediately...
You may get only one chancce to save your data...
Find out whose drive is in that machine by logging on at the Dell site and entering your service tag #...this will tell you exactly what components you have in there.
Then travel to the drive manuf. site and DLoad their Free diagnostics. Use the file to create a bootable CD and boot to it to test the drive's fitness.

The best method of retrieving/saving your data is to hook up the drive as a slave in another working machine...preferably one with a burner so you can backup everything.

Good Luck and let us know.When I leave one of my self-made dvds in my CD Drive, my computer does exactly what he says his is doing and just stays on that black screen for a minute or so...The HD is running .....I can feel it.........sometime I get an error message that says Primary disk 0 not found. I turn it off then I get the dreaded black screen of deathQuote from: slingblade on June 22, 2008, 09:05:30 AM

The HD is running .....I can feel it.........

That does not mean it is OK. Sounds like the hard drive could be faulty.But how do I get data recoveryIf you have access to another computer, I would suggest following Patio's advice here:

QUOTE from: patio on June 22, 2008, 08:44:32 AM

The best method of retrieving/saving your data is to hook up the drive as a slave in another working machine...preferably one with a burner so you can backup everything.

I hooked it up today at work. The drive has two partitions, "F" and "G". Using tools in windows they both appear heathy. The drive stated that it was full. I question this, it is a 200GB and I surely don;t have that much stuff, ANYWAY I opened the drive letter "G" and deleted all that I didn't need, then backed up the other stuff. The drive letter "F" will not let me do anything. The hours glass just keeps on turning, then the "F" drive that was hightlighted dropped down to the "G" drive again. The drive will not allow me to open the "F" drive. Any suggestions?Go to Start/Run and type in chkdsk /r and hit Enter...
Select the drive/partition that's not behaving...
Let it run til it finishes....
You may get lucky here,

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