[mrblack]

how do you boot it over the corrupt drive? do you put the bad drive into the new functioning computer? i have this same problem, and a technician was saying that since a clean computer can not read it it is pointless trying to recover files through programs and the best alternative is sending it to techniccians that can perform under a "clean" room.

can a virus completely make a hardrive uncapable of fully functioning again? He also recommened that I buy a new hard drive, but he is willing to recover my files.