Hello Guys

I am so Sad with my WD Caviar SE SATA HDD.
It just ran fine until today morning when the PC wouldnt boot to XP.
POST went fine, so did the loading thing of Windows LOGO.
After that the PC keeps on restarting and halted on POST.

I only saw a message that HDD S.M.A.R.T is bad, Backup and Replace.
But only once I could get into XP and started copying some files, and the PC restarted .

I ran the WD diag tool and it sees all the files within that 250 GB C:\ only HDD partition.

So How to copy those files to Another HDD???
Or, Any way to Reinstate the Partition Header?

Image with a non-windows s/w.

E.g. dd_rescue, Media Tools

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pcimage, How can I do Imaging with a non Windows software? something like knoppix? I just again checked, Western Digital Diagnostic tool is clearly showing all my files. Only the XP NTFS partition has been broken. I guess some virus or something, or may be a mechanical jitter.

Your drive is dying.......
This warning does not happen often and you should image your drive ASAP, otherwise you going to kill your drive and recovery will cost you a little fortune.
If you don't know how to do this task, take it to someone who knows.

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With all your guidance, I can do it by myself.
You people seems ery experience. Just let me know what to do now.
its not even a year that I bought this WD drive and now its dying.
No more Mechanical drives, Solid states from Now on.
Oh ya guide me how to recover the data from this drive, thanks all.

I have a feeling that when the SSD's start to become popular a lot are going to fail faster than mechanical drives. Just a feeling...

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