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From: Pat on 13 Dec 2005 06:57
The hardrive on a computer has been damaged and I am unable to boot it up
(even in safemode) so I can retrieve important files. It gets as far a the
blue screen of death where it tells me that windows xp has halted the
operation and to reboot and start up in safemode. I have removed the
hardrive and installed it unto another computer to see if there was another
underlying problem, but it is indeed the hardrive that has become damaged.

Anyone know what else i can do to retrieve the data.

Pat


From: Bob Willard on 13 Dec 2005 07:48
Pat wrote:

>The hardrive on a computer has been damaged and I am unable to boot it up
>(even in safemode) so I can retrieve important files. It gets as far a the
>blue screen of death where it tells me that windows xp has halted the
>operation and to reboot and start up in safemode. I have removed the
>hardrive and installed it unto another computer to see if there was another
>underlying problem, but it is indeed the hardrive that has become damaged.
>
>Anyone know what else i can do to retrieve the data.
>
>Pat
>
>
>
>
Use your time machine to go back, then backup your data.

No time machine? At least, get prepared for the next HD failure.

--
Cheers, Bob
From: Harry on 13 Dec 2005 11:23
Pat wrote...
>
>The hardrive on a computer has been damaged and I am unable to boot it up
>(even in safemode) so I can retrieve important files. It gets as far a the
>blue screen of death where it tells me that windows xp has halted the
>operation and to reboot and start up in safemode. I have removed the
>hardrive and installed it unto another computer to see if there was another
>underlying problem, but it is indeed the hardrive that has become damaged.
>
>Anyone know what else i can do to retrieve the data.
>
>Pat
>
>

From: Harry on 13 Dec 2005 11:30
Pat wrote...
>
>The hardrive on a computer has been damaged and I am unable to boot it up
>(even in safemode) so I can retrieve important files. It gets as far a the
>blue screen of death where it tells me that windows xp has halted the
>operation and to reboot and start up in safemode. I have removed the
>hardrive and installed it unto another computer to see if there was another
>underlying problem, but it is indeed the hardrive that has become damaged.
>
>Anyone know what else i can do to retrieve the data.

You can plugin a OS CD, install a new OS on the same OS partition.
But do not format the drive. Once you have install a new OS, you
can boot up the HDD and get back (hopewfully) some, if not all, of
your important data.

Alternatively there is some bootable CDs you can get from the web.
E.G. Knoppix (Linux)
UBCD4Win (Ultimate Boot CD for Win).

Google for them.

And once you learn the lesson in a hard way, you should start backup
your system to external media (e.g. HDD, USB drive).
Acronis TrueImage is one of the good backup programs.



From: Rod Speed on 13 Dec 2005 13:06

Pat <glass_patrick(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:439eb718$0$82636$ed2619ec(a)ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...

> The hardrive on a computer has been damaged and I am unable to boot it up
> (even in safemode) so I can retrieve important files. It gets as far a the
> blue screen of death where it tells me that windows xp has halted the
> operation and to reboot and start up in safemode. I have removed the hardrive
> and installed it unto another computer to see if there was another underlying
> problem, but it is indeed the hardrive that has become damaged.

What effect do you get in the second PC ?

> Anyone know what else i can do to retrieve the data.

Depends on what effect you get on the second PC.



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