Hello all,
Wifes friend from work just dropped off her computer because shes having some problems. There recently was 2 power surges at her house, the first one didn't cause any problems but the second one caused a boot error. Windows wouldn't get past the windows start up loading page and when I went in to windows repair I came up with a couple problems. Chkdsk froze at 47 percent (froze for 3 hours) Fixboot froze the first time but I re-tried and it worked the second. However, now it wont even get to the windows start up page it just says boot error, insert windows cd or ctrl/alt/delete to restart. Since that happened I decided to hook it up to my computer using a S-ATA to usb connection and heres what its doing. The hard drive is constintly restarting itself. Windows xp wouldn't detect it but windows vista will but says it needs to be formatted before opening. How can or can I get the information that was on the hard drive? Or should I just tell her its gone and try a format?
Wifes friend from work just dropped off her computer because shes having some problems. There recently was 2 power surges at her house, the first one didn't cause any problems but the second one caused a boot error. Windows wouldn't get past the windows start up loading page and when I went in to windows repair I came up with a couple problems. Chkdsk froze at 47 percent (froze for 3 hours) Fixboot froze the first time but I re-tried and it worked the second. However, now it wont even get to the windows start up page it just says boot error, insert windows cd or ctrl/alt/delete to restart. Since that happened I decided to hook it up to my computer using a S-ATA to usb connection and heres what its doing. The hard drive is constintly restarting itself. Windows xp wouldn't detect it but windows vista will but says it needs to be formatted before opening. How can or can I get the information that was on the hard drive? Or should I just tell her its gone and try a format?
o well.
