One more thought - try fixing data corruption on the driver with a chkdsk /f or /r
I'm guessing the most likely reason however for this failure is likely due to hardware failure on the drive itself. the chkdsk /r option may get it working again. You'll need to do that from a repair recovery screen however.
Modern hard drives of the IDE flavor are designed for cheap manufacture unfortunately. Where SCSI or the older MFM RLL type drives needed to be made perfect, IDE drives are not. Instead IDE drives incorporate what is known as S.M.A.R.T. technology and are designed cheaply with cheap not always perfect platters. What the drive does with smart onboard is that it has a fail-over platter in with the normal platters. As parts of your original platters fail, it fails to the fail over platter. How much has failed over is recorded by SMART and that is how it knows the integrety of your drive. A drive with poor integrity has a lot of crap loaded on the fail over platter and is likely to fail completly.
Just a little bit of worthless knowledge for ya!
-S
PS. SMART screws up from time to time too!
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