Russ88765
Active Member
I have a bit of a problem. I have files on my computer i'd prefer to keep, but want to do a system restore to get the computer working again. How should I back them up? I bought a kingston flash drive but it doesn't show the icon for me to drag and drop files to. I also have an external hard drive which also does not show up. I spend an hour resetting and resetting to get it to boot, and when it does it freezes after a few minutes in the OS.
It's really a nightmare, just a guess but I think the hard drive failed. I have a crappy emachines that i'm trying to replace, would I be able to use any type of 3.5" form factor hard drive with my motherboard? Or are some of them too big to fit in cases? The case I have is definitely a smaller one, so I just wondered if I could use a 2tb seagate barracuda as a replacement. Do I need to replace mobo too, or for now can I just get that hd till I have cash for everything else?
It's really a nightmare, just a guess but I think the hard drive failed. I have a crappy emachines that i'm trying to replace, would I be able to use any type of 3.5" form factor hard drive with my motherboard? Or are some of them too big to fit in cases? The case I have is definitely a smaller one, so I just wondered if I could use a 2tb seagate barracuda as a replacement. Do I need to replace mobo too, or for now can I just get that hd till I have cash for everything else?