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[STEELERGLENN]

OK i went to my buddies work he was having issues with his windows xp so i was told to do a repair on it booted of the cd used the repair option but when i was done i cannot get back to the desk top or find his stuff i am scared and freaked out i did not do a fresh reinstall i repeat i did not do that yet. but he has all of his documents quicken etc. please help i am begging

 

[2048Megabytes]

I guess you learned rule number one when working on a computer:

ALWAYS PERFORM A BACKUP OF VITAL DATA BEFORE BEGINNING WORK ON A COMPUTER.

It's best to use an external hard drive or a flash drive to back up important data.

You could possibly take his hard drive out and plug it in as a secondary hard drive in another system and pull the important data off.

 

[Danda]

I guess you learned rule number one when working on a computer:

ALWAYS PERFORM A BACKUP OF VITAL DATA BEFORE BEGINNING WORK ON A COMPUTER.

It's best to use an external hard drive or a flash drive to back up important data.

You could possibly take his hard drive out and plug it in as a secondary hard drive in another system and pull the important data off.

This

 

[voyagerfan99]

Try booting to a live CD of SLAX. It is able to read/write to NTFS so you should be able to go in and oull his data off there (if it's still there).

 

[computer repair]

Hello everyone

Better yet if don't feel comfortable with linux, just use the Ultimate boot cd 4 win, just like a linux boot cd, but you will boot into windows xp environment, and there you can retrieve data.

 

[lovely?]

seriously the first idea is by far the best. i have people bringing me their hd's with screwed up HD's, and broken OS's and i just pop them in my computer for a few minutes and transfer the files to a thumb drive or an internet storage server.