BOOTUP ERROR PLEASE HELP

[bfletch]

This is the error I am getting:

"NOTICE: THE SECONDARY IDE MASTER HARD DRIVE SELF MONITORING SYSTEM HAS REPORTED THAT A PARAMETER HAS EXCEEDED ITS NORMAL OPERATING RANGE. DELL RECOMMENDS THAT YOU BACK UP YOUR DATA REGULARLY.

A PARAMETER OUT OF RANGE MAY OR MAY NOT INDICATE A POTENTIAL HARD DRIVE PROBLEM."

I get a little different variation of this error when the harddrive in question is the only bootable harddrive. It goes to the 2000 Server screen and then I get the "Blue screen of death" and tells me to run "CHKDSK /F". I have tried in DOS but says has to be run in windows. I need to get any or all information on this drive. Any suggestions?

1) I have already slaved it to a workin drive and when I go to select it, it prompts me to format.

2) I have tried and reinstall the O/S to a different folder, but it again tells me I have to format before continuing.

I have run out of ideas, anything will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[aftertaf]

ouch!
"I have tried in DOS but says has to be run in windows"
Can you boot in safe mode?

Seems to me that there is not much else you can do...
Hard drive in seriously bad health!

what data do you have on there?

Aftertaf
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[bfletch]

I was able to recover the data. For future reference for anyone:

1) Slave drive on working Win2K system
2) Go to command prompt
3) chkdsk /f d: (dive letter of damaged hard drive)

This took a little while and not full proof, but I was able to navigate to it while it was slaved and recover all my data. When I tried booting as the primary drive it did crash again so if you are able to recover the data off of it do it immmediately and reformat the drive if you want to continue using it.

Thanks.