Ok, I have a laptop that was working fine until a couple of days ago. Turned it on, Windows xp loading screen appears the green bar just keeps moving and it never loads.
Safe mode also only loads a little then hangs.
Tried all of the other booting options that are on screen, all get to the same place. It's as if the OS is looking for a file which it never finds.
Tried to do a xp repair. the cd drive is not seen as a boot drive (it will not boot from cd) my laptop doesn't have a: disk drive to boot from floppy.
P.s
I've tried changing the boot sequence in the bios
Any ideas on how to get the drive semi operational so i can get my unbacked up files?
If it happened all of a sudden, it may not be missing files, it may be faulty hardware.
Try borrowing someone else's XP cd to reinstall, but you may have problems there too. If you do, there's a hardware fault with the laptop.
Plugged the harddrive into a desktop pc, and tried to boot, still nothing. Looks like i'm gonna have to replace the drive. Which isn't a problem, just alot of my University files are on there. are they now unrecoverable?
Plugged the harddrive into a desktop pc, and tried to boot, still nothing. Looks like i'm gonna have to replace the drive. Which isn't a problem, just alot of my University files are on there. are they now unrecoverable?
no you can get them back, just plug the hard drive into another computer, but dont boot from it, boot from the normal hard drive. Then get your files off it.
I just had this problem happen to someone I built a computer for, you can try putting in the windows xp cd and doing a repair install that will only replace windows files.
Check to see if it comes up in disk management (diskmgmt.msc) or the device manager. If it does, but it says it's unformatted, you'll need recovery software to get the data back. If it doesn't, and it's definitely plugged in, then you may need a recovery service to get the data back. The latter is particularly expensive, far more than the hard drive will cost to replace.
