Hard disk crash recovery - The Hard Drive Mechanic. Hard disk crash recovery tool to fix Windows XP and Windows 2000. Windows repair software. The first thing you need to do is figure out if the crash is caused by a physical or logical failure.  That is the tricky part.  If your computer crashes, it will not boot to the operating system.  Some of the same errors occur with physical or logical crashes, so, if your computer will not boot and you hear a grinding, clicking or whirring noise or your BIOS does not see the drive, you more then likely have a physical drive failure, software cannot fix this.  At this point you should stop trying to boot the computer.  If these conditions do not exisit you may have a logical problem.

Alogical failure occurs when the hard drive is healthy but you cannot boot into the operating system. This can be caused by many different factors: A virus, system driver conflict, human error or many other things.  

When this type of failure happens, do not try to reinstall Windows, The Hard Drive Mechanic was designed torestore and recover your Windows XP and/or 2000 PC back to normal after a crash, without ever having been installed.