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My PC crashed while on Windows 8 Pro earlier in the week, and loading the Win Recovery environment takes ages to click on a particular option. Infact upon booting normally, the PC Blue Screens again and the same crash process starts all over again. Now I loaded the Windows 8 set up and the PC freezes at "Setup is starting" I attempted the setup thrice without any sucess. I launched CMD prompt and ran chkdsk C: /r /d /c and the error message I get is that CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. I don't know what other options to try. I'm a computer enthusiast and any method you guys give me to try would br really appreciated.
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The disk has probably failed.
You could try using diskpart at the command prompt in case it is just the partitioning which is damaged. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415/en-gb . The clean option should be used after selecting the relevant disk.
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Hey, I'm aware my HDD might have some flaw, but all I want is a quick solution so that I may be able to recover some data from my drive. It's not the best time to incur costs in purchasing a new drive. Any solutions to that?
A RAW drive would be an indication that the drive has failed
Your hard drive maker will have a free bootable disk checking utility
