Corupted hard drive?

[VERT]

My flatemates computer is failing to load, he gets a error "Missing OS" on boot, I have taken his hard drive from his PC and stuck it in mine, as you cant read it in his (all that comes up is garbage). Upon browsing his Hard drive I get this
<IMG SRC="http://catdoggg.tripod.com/dave.gif" border=0>

My flatmate tells me he has his studies on his PC and would like the data to be recovered, any Ideas would be much apreciated



[This message has been edited by VERT (edited 08-06-2001).]

[VERT]

Have scanned with Inoculate, which tells me that the master boot record is ok and the partition boot record is ok.

this is how inoculate reports the scanning <IMG SRC="URL=http://catdoggg.tripod.com/dave1.gif" border=0>
inoculate is still scaning at over 100000 files, I have decided to stop it

and this is how easy cleaner reports the space usage <IMG SRC="http://catdoggg.tripod.com/dave2.gif" border=0>

My flatmate tells me he has done nothing out of the ordinary and has not dropped or banged his PC/Harddrive

would it be safe to assume that his data cant be recovered?


[This message has been edited by VERT (edited 08-06-2001).]

[S.D.Willie]

hey VERT those links are no good.
i once had a drive that was infected as well at work and it was well over a hundred thousand files scannesd on a 4 gig drive and never stopped. doesnt look so good but i could be wrong.

SD

[VERT]

have fixed the pictures, if they still aren't working, reight click on them and choose properties and paste the link into your browser.