hard drive crash - LOADING PBR FOR DESCRIPTOR 2 DONE disk error occured

This blog entry is to document the steps to retrieve data from a crashed hard drive. The data contained within is important to the church operations and ministries. There is no rush to obtain the data because they had previous files backed up available elsewhere. This is the timeline of events about this hard drive crash.

Please note, I am using two Dell PC from church. First Dell PC is from children's church that was recovered. After testing, it does not boot properly and currently using it as parts. Second Dell PC is from church clerk office which had a hard drive failure due a pressumed power spike. Hard drive prevents computer from booting properly and must be replaced.

So, the solution is to take the First Dell PC working parts and place it in the Second Dell PC by replacing the hard drive and adding a duel head graphic card. Please see solution section for results.

Steps taken to repair:
5-29-09
Hard drive occured

8-16-09
Finally, some time to preform IDE diagnostic test (press F-12 on Dell Dimension 3000) .
Unable to boot into hard drive using Bart PE.
Used Bart PE to test the networking capabilites of computer
Replacing hard drive with First Dell PC into Second Dell PC *crosses fingers*
Identical machines should have little complaints of hardware compatibility

8-22-09
Swapped hard drive with working operating system works.
Adding dual head graphic card.
Testing environment before refreshing of Sunday Plus machine in production.


Details of computer:
Dell Dimension 3000

Solution:
Back up files on hard drive using BartPE (unable to boot hard disk)
Replace hard drive with working one

Resources:

Bart PE
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

http://www.techsupportforum.com/microsoft-support/windows-xp-support/394177-loading-pbr-descriptor-2-done-disk-read-error-occurred.html

http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/405443-loading-pbr-descriptor-2-done.html