- max wrote:
- sounds like your hard drive's gone mate. Unfortunately replacing it means you'll of lost everything on there (unless you have backed it up).
Not true.
The hard-drive may have corrupted so that windows will not be able to boot up, but does not mean that this is the end. You can still boot the corrupted files that windows needs from a mem stick when Windows starts.
Even if the hard drive is indeed dead (not spinning), the data can still be restored.
- guy wrote:
- I fecking hate computers and see them as the devils spawn incarnate.
There I was just burning some rolling stones to listen to while I had dinner and the screen flickered for the millionth time.
so I tapped the side like I always do and the burner stopped,
then it started making whirring noises, then it froze.
I don't expect chucking it across the garden into the stream of water from the hose helped it much.
It now doesn't start at all.
In an even fouler mood than when I started.
F'ing computers.
Sorry I haven't gotten in touch Guy.
I found a way that may be possible to get the info off your old laptop that screwed up (I think it was your laptop). It requires a bit of jiggery pokery but shouldnt be too difficult. If I cant get over to yours any time soon, I'll give the stuff needed to Jay, with a step-by-step instruction list for you to follow so that you can sort it out yourself.
Whichever machine that you happened to throw across the garden is, the process might work for that one too. However, water + hard PC slamming may have knackered it beyond repair.
Next time Jay goes over to yours, I'll pop along with him If I can and sort your PC out while he asks you to repair something else on his car that he's broken...
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