Windows BCD

dandoubleo · 4 Apr 2010 at 23:12

Hello all, having a few problems with my samsung r510. After a few crashes which i suspected were due to over heating I tried to boot today to encounter the error: boot/bcd, 0xe00000e9, unexpected I/O error.

As things stand if I try to boot the recovery disk it hangs after loading the files, and if i enter the recovery from bios it gives me the error above. So i have no idea where to go with this having flicked through the bios and encountering nothing out of the norm.

Any help would be greatly appreciated , my partly complete dissertation is on there!

postmanfw · 4 Apr 2010 at 23:35

Suspect a faulty hard drive

SourChipmunk · 4 Apr 2010 at 23:38

postmanfw said:
Suspect a faulty hard drive

Agreed. That error is very generic. I'm not familiar with that model, but if you have any removable components make sure they're seated properly. If you have add-on memory, check to make sure that is snug as well or pull it out completely.

dandoubleo · 5 Apr 2010 at 00:17

Thanks for the quick reply guys. No removable parts as far as im aware but i checked the memory to no avail. Is it possible that if it is a damaged hard drive i can plug into a caddy and retain some data or more likely that i have lost the lot?

dandoubleo · 5 Apr 2010 at 00:19

postmanfw said:
Suspect a faulty hard drive

sorry could you explain why faulty hard drive jumped out at you?

masterluke · 5 Apr 2010 at 10:15

Try a linux live cd and copy important stuff to usb.

dandoubleo · 5 Apr 2010 at 10:15

Just a quick update, iv managed to get into the boot options (safe mode etc) but not got any further. Anyone got any ideas on how to recover the data? Oh and this may benefit more in the storage section now?

matthab · 5 Apr 2010 at 10:29

Find who makes the HD and get one of their diagnosis tools.

masterluke · 5 Apr 2010 at 10:32

matthab said:
Find who makes the HD and get one of their diagnosis tools.

Good idea - the livecd will tell you the manufacturer also if its not in the bios

dandoubleo · 5 Apr 2010 at 16:45

masterluke said:
Try a linux live cd and copy important stuff to usb.

Cheers for the advice, I'v now booted onto Ubuntu (I like it!) which has reported the disk as having many bad sectors (1465 of a 250GB disk).

Is it possible to tell if that is a lot?

Also, due to my knowledge of Linux being limited, is it best to now hand it over to the professionals for data recover? Im based in Stoke on Trent if anyone has any recommendations?

masterluke · 5 Apr 2010 at 20:20

thats bad, if the disk will read then you can insert a usb disk now and copy off the important stuff. Then you need to buy a new disk, install windows and then copy it back

dandoubleo · 5 Apr 2010 at 20:58

masterluke said:
thats bad, if the disk will read then you can insert a usb disk now and copy off the important stuff. Then you need to buy a new disk, install windows and then copy it back

It will only acknowledge its presence, it wont let me enter into any of the drives apart from the recovery folder. Iv got a friend who is going to try the gdd rescue route, i will let you know how it goes.