On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:03:07 GMT, Pamela >
wrote:

>On 22:04 16 Mar 2021, Mike Duffy said:
>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:11:14 -0700, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>
>>> usually when you take it to the shop they solution is to format
>>> the hard drive. Data? Not our problem.
>>
>> C'mon. You tell them you want the data. It's not a problem; it's
>> an opportunity. Then they can (for a fee) try changing the
>> on-board controller, if they can find an identical model where the
>> medium has failed. Then they can at least tell you definitively
>> that *your* medium has failed. You still don't have your data, but
>> now at least you know it is truly gone.
>
>That's getting advanced. John's "drive" is probably a partition on
>the same HDD.
>
>As this is XP, maybe it's been caused by someone or something
>jinxing the MPT entry in the MBR.

LOL. Yes, lets not bother with the more obvious, simper and more
common possible causes............ idiot.

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