Sounds like a crashed Hard Drive.  You may be able to recover some data if
you put it into a working machine and set it up as a slave (or on the other
IDE channel).

Copy whatever you can off of it and either send it back (if it is under
warranty) or throw it away.

No real wa to save it as far as I know.

-Rob


>My friend has a computer that needs a lot of work, upon bootup we get an
>error message stating  " sector not found reading drive c
>                            abort,retry,ignore,fail "



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