ntfs drive won't boot but data is all there

I left my windows xp computer running a overnight and in the morning
when i restarted it froze after the bios. Even attempting to boot from
the windows xp cd, the computer still freezes (starts to boot off cd,
and freezes after scanning for installed components).

Putting a different hard drive in as my C drive i can boot off the cd
fine, and even see all the data of the "dead" drive when i plug it in
as a D or E. The dead drive just won't boot for some reason.

Its no good booting to a floppy disk since the dead drive is ntfs and
not viewable under dos.

Anyone have any ideas what might be going on or how i might be able to
fix it? Thanks.

Details:
Dead Drive - Maxtor 60gb (ntfs)
OS - Windows XP
PC - P4 2.4ghz
Ramm - 512mb
Other drives in system - Maxtor 80gb (fat32), Segate 120gb (ntfs)

 >I left my windows xp computer running a overnight and in the morning
 >when i restarted it froze after the bios. Even attempting to boot from
 >the windows xp cd, the computer still freezes (starts to boot off cd,
 >and freezes after scanning for installed components).
 >
 >Putting a different hard drive in as my C drive i can boot off the cd
 >fine, and even see all the data of the "dead" drive when i plug it in
 >as a D or E. The dead drive just won't boot for some reason.
 >
 >Its no good booting to a floppy disk since the dead drive is ntfs and
 >not viewable under dos.
 >
 >Anyone have any ideas what might be going on or how i might be able to
 >fix it? Thanks.

If you can boot WinXP on another drive, try running chkdsk [x] /r where
'x' is the drive letter for the problem drive.

MIke.



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