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Badger32
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_ 		25. December 2008 @ 17:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
all right heres the problem. my mother bricked her laptop by shuting it off when it was updateing itself. i don't know why but she did. i know all i need to do is reformat the thing, but the thing is if i do that i will lose a ton of music that i had backed up on it. so what i need to do is find away to access the hard drive to get the files off the drive. is there a way i can do this so i can back up all that media and then reformat it?

thanks.

ps
the laptop was only a few months old, and i hadn't felt the need to back it up yet, so theres no restore points.
oh and i don't know if this helps but, you turn it on and it starts up normally untill it checks for updates before windows is acctually open, then it restarts itself.
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Badger32
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_ 		29. December 2008 @ 19:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
sorry for the double post but i really need help with this, if anyone is out there that has any ideas on how to help that would be great, or even a way just to get it to a point before the update.
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cliff58
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_ 		29. December 2008 @ 21:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well dude, you just got me to join AfterDawn just so I could pass on this link to you:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/repairing_windows_xp.htm

I just hope you have a regular WindowsXP CD and not a "restore disk" - most of those automatically format the drive!

Good luck with it.
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Badger32
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_ 		30. December 2008 @ 18:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks for the help, and i do have one of those disks lying around.
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