its a Western Digital (WD800) IDE hd... hd was only produced on the 29th of sept 2004 and i think its packed in.... 
got some info and pics i really need to recover. I have done the following....
Basically by switching the pc on i get the options safe mode, safe mode with control panel etc etc start windows normally. About 5-6 different options...
No matter what i select windows xp bar starts loading up then pc resets and the options again re appear....
Tried re installing windows but says it needs to reformat the partition because its a bad hard drive.
Pressing F12 when pc is booted brings up the boot device menu.
Ive selected no.5 IDE drive diagnostics
WDC WWD800BB-75FJA1 - FAIL. RETURN CODE: 7
Done a search on the ned and with Dell PC's a return code 7 means bad tracks or sectors.
Ive downloaded ultimate boot cd, and booted that up but there are no tools for western digital hard drives
Ive slaved the HD into a different pc and when the windows xp bar finishes loading there is a blank screen....
Again when setting the jumpers on CS what ever that means, but i did try it on CS on a different pc and it actually got into windows but said the drive needed formating? and the PC was really really slow....
I then downloaded this
http://support.wdc.com/download/ind...n&pid=4&swid=30
Diag tool for my HD, ran the tool and it said that the sectors are too badly damaged to be repaired! And so gave me no option to repair it then
So now im stuck i really need to recover some of this data ! is there anything else out there that i could use guys???
got some info and pics i really need to recover. I have done the following....Basically by switching the pc on i get the options safe mode, safe mode with control panel etc etc start windows normally. About 5-6 different options...
No matter what i select windows xp bar starts loading up then pc resets and the options again re appear....
Tried re installing windows but says it needs to reformat the partition because its a bad hard drive.
Pressing F12 when pc is booted brings up the boot device menu.
Ive selected no.5 IDE drive diagnostics
WDC WWD800BB-75FJA1 - FAIL. RETURN CODE: 7
Done a search on the ned and with Dell PC's a return code 7 means bad tracks or sectors.
Ive downloaded ultimate boot cd, and booted that up but there are no tools for western digital hard drives
Ive slaved the HD into a different pc and when the windows xp bar finishes loading there is a blank screen....
Again when setting the jumpers on CS what ever that means, but i did try it on CS on a different pc and it actually got into windows but said the drive needed formating?
and the PC was really really slow....I then downloaded this
http://support.wdc.com/download/ind...n&pid=4&swid=30
Diag tool for my HD, ran the tool and it said that the sectors are too badly damaged to be repaired! And so gave me no option to repair it then
So now im stuck i really need to recover some of this data ! is there anything else out there that i could use guys???