2006-07-04 09:48:39 · 6 answers · asked by doe06 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
The only way I can think of to not lose any data would be to go out and get a new hard drive. Then install the OS onto it as the primary system HDD and hookup your old hard drive as a secondary and retrieve data from it.
Another possibility is if your OS CD-ROM is bootable and you set up your BIOS to boot from CD. It will be a scaled down boot usually like windows safe mode, but you should have access to you harddrive and be able to pull data from it to store somewhere else.
Good luck.
2006-07-04 10:05:43 · answer #1 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use a Live CD of Linux to boot the system, with a firewire or USB external drive hooked up to put the data on.
Since I boot from the CDROM, the actual hard drive that has the corrupted Microsoft system (well, Anything that M$ does, is corrupt, only, some are more corrupt than others! We don't trust Microsoft with ANY of data!)
I can observe and drag the folders I like over to my External drive!
Once saved, I unplug the external drive, and press the "Install" icon, so that a REAL operating system, that is stable, and doesn't KILL hard drives, can run!
Our lab found out that the Microsoft OSes, even with NTFS, thrashes hard drives about 100X more than any other OS, so that drives fail most often, in Microsoft.
There are 500+ OSes, and, ONLY Microsoft's aren't UNIX, and ONLY Microsoft kills hardware! We suspect Microsoft built it that way to favor the hardware vendors with increased sales...
Install takes about 20-30 minutes... then it is a FULL functional system, that will NEVER get a one of the 150,000 Microsoft Virus!
2006-07-04 17:07:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may want to search for this
It is a Linux boot CD disk for windows ...fully configurable to load winzip or whatever.
It helped me because it had a GUI interface with an explorer type program that I could click around to find my data (like my email dbf files).
Trying to get that stuff by Windows command prompt is a pain!
Good luck
2006-07-04 18:38:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just burn all the data to a disk and upload it after you restored your computer
2006-07-04 17:43:40 · answer #4 · answered by JJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take the computer back to the store that you purchased it from.
2006-07-04 17:37:52 · answer #5 · answered by Balthor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found some good info here.
2006-07-09 07:35:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋