I was doing a P2V conversion of my laptop many months ago, a Dell D800, into an ESX 3.5 virtual machine. The drive was 60GB was partitioned into two logical drives and all seemed to be going well.
At about 95% of completion the laptop blue-screened. When I rebooted it, the drive would not recognize.
I tried many different boot CD’s to fix boot sectors; retry a Windows XP install, no go! I even put it in an external USB case and tried just to access the data. When I did that I could hear that famous *clicking* and resetting sound. Not good. The drive was toast.
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