[access-uk] Re: Question about a corrupted hard drive.
- From: Jonathan <digitaltoast@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:16:01 +0000
Does it HAVE to be a tower? There's some amazing laptop deals around;
I'm typing this on an Asus aluminium shelled laptop with 6GB RAM,
750GB hard disk, USB3, HDMI, Win 7 home premium blah blah blah for
under £399 inc vat and del from (I hate to say this) Currys.
Just hang around HotUKDeals for a few days and the bargain-hunting
geeks will have found something :)
And yes, while MS has extended XP support to April 2014, 13 years
after XP was first launched, there's a fair bit to be said in favour
of switching to Win 7.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:38 PM, petrina delves
<delves465@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I can't tell you what the error was. All I know is that when I went to
> start my computer the next day, after shutting it down the night before
> despite several attempts it wouldn't boot up. So I called my friend who
> repairs computers for a living, and after work he came to have a look at it,
> and said he would have to take it away. Anyway after sending my message to
> the list last night, he phoned me about 9 O'Clock, to say that after trying
> everything he could possibly think of, he got someone else he works with to
> look at it, but they still can't get it to run. Apparently when you go to
> start it, it gets so far and then sits there doing nothing, then after a
> while, the screen goes blank. So it looks as though I am going to have to
> shake up the piggy bank, for a new tower. And that also poses a problem,
> because I can't afford to update all my hardware, and possibly software, I
> need to buy a tower, which will still allow me to run XP.
>
> All the best
> Petrina
> Southampton UK
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan" <digitaltoast@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 7:07 PM
>
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Question about a corrupted hard drive.
>
>
>> Theoretically, yes.
>>
>> However, this is one of the rare occasions when I'd say that if your
>> data is at all valuable to you, get a professional, or at least
>> someone who really knows what they're doing.
>> And by that, I don't mean PC World!
>>
>> There are just so many variables - what type of cable? What are the
>> jumper settings? What security did the old HDD have? What partition
>> format did it use?
>> Most machines have both SATA and PATA connections should you should be
>> OK there, but you can still get yourself in a right old pickle.
>>
>> So, answer is: Yes, no guarantees, but be careful and take your time!
>>
>> Incidentally, what is the error and what recovery tools have you tried?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:49 PM, petrina delves
>> <delves465@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all.
>>> I have a hard drive, that we think has become severely corrupted. What
>>> I would
>>> like to know, is because this drive, has been partitioned, is it possible
>>> to
>>> put it in to another computer, as a secondary drive. So that I can
>>> retrieve
>>> some files, that I didn't get a chance to backup, or have I lost them.
>>> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me with this one.
>>> All the best
>>> Petrina
>>> Southampton UK
>
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