I have a Dell Studio laptop running WIndows XP (home).
I have encountered a Disk Read Error (Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot) - with no hard drive noises.
I have run the internal Dell diagnostic tool and the SeaTools (yes, it is a SeaGate hard drive). The SeaTools SATA tests failed, and I ran the SeaTools 'repair' sectors options, and got a 'Pass After Repair'.
I am still unable to boot - I can only get to the SetUp through F12.
I was wondering if Norton Ghost would be helpful in me trying to recover my files from the hard drive.
How does it run? Do I hook up an external hard drive to the bad computer, to ghost the data to?...
Does Ghost run from a bootable disk (since I cannot boot up?)??
I don't want to buy the software only to realize it won't be useable or helpful.
TIA!!