If this was your primary (boot) HD, the answer is simple really.
Hook up the drive to another PC that's bootable. Attach the "dead" drive to the PC either on the secondary IDE port, or use an external USB HD box.
Inside of Windows XP, open a command prompt and type:
CHKDSK driveletter /F
(replace "driveletter" with the letter the drive shows up as).
If it's just the indexes, that'll rebuild it.
Here's another trick you can try. I used this on a friend's HD that would cause the system to literally reboot whenever the OS would try to read the boot strap on the drive.
Using a copy of Norton Ghost, boot with a DOS boot disk and make a ghost image file of the "bad" HD onto a good HD (MAKE AN IMAGE FILE, DO NOT clone the drive to a new drive!!!). Tell Ghost to ignore any errors that it may find while making the image. Once the image file has been created, use Ghost Explorer to extract the files that you need from the image file. Using this trick I was able to recover ALL the files from my friend's HD.
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I lost one year's worth of images yesterday and techie friends just gave me the bad news. No recovery. The ironic thing was I started Windows DiskClean so I could do a back-up. Lost the boot strap, corrupted index files, and disk performance wouldn't allow a second drive disk read using Windows or Linux. Just learn from me and do those back-ups photogs. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] I would have posted a pic here but I haven't got any. I see a hangover coming on.
Sparky
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