unmountable boot disk

[pmg68]

a mate has given me a HDD that gives the above blue screen error message when he tries to boot up.

I've seen problems like this being blamed on corrupt partitions, and the cure was to 'fix' it using partition magic..

I got partition magic 8 yesterday *cough* and cant see any obvious 'fix' method that wont lose all the data on the disk.

can anyone push me in the right direction? :splease

[ian_jedi]

blue screen maybe hardware fault if its ntfs, put the hard drive in as a slave
and boot the machine and take a look at the partition.

cheers

ian

a mate has given me a HDD that gives the above blue screen error message when he tries to boot up.

can anyone push me in the right direction? :splease