My PC wont boot to OS. It will just show the startup and right before it should show the Windows XP display screen it just stays gray and the busy light indicator never flash. I tried booting the pc in safe mode but same thing happened it will just stay on gray screen doing nothing.
My PC has two hard disks and each disk has two partitions. The Secondary slave disk works fine and the PC can recognize the partition but the primary just shows how big the whole drive is.
I tried reformatting and re-installing the OS but I cant continue since it says it cant recognize the partition on the first hard drive. It prompts that I have to delete the partition on the first drive and create a new one so I can re-install XP which I avoid as much as possible since it contains important data. Is there a way to salvage the files there before I create a new partition? Or perhaps a device that could do that?
Thanks!!!
2007-04-27 23:35:17 · 4 answers · asked by Rafaga 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I tried installing XP on the other drive but it says that it has to write a boot record on the initial drive but it cant access it... I can try making the secondary drive the primary one and install XP there but im afraid that I still have to format it or change the partition and I am still afraid that my files could be lost during the process...
I tried using DOS commands however its unable to access the main drive which makes me unable to transfer the files to the secondary drive....
2007-04-28 00:23:20 · update #1
use a win 95 or 98 boot disk boot to the a: drive .and see if you can see the files from there..you can copy using dos commands put them on your other hard drive...
2007-04-27 23:39:59 · answer #1 · answered by I AM BACK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't u transfer files to ur other hard drive using windows repair option.....just hir r when it asks to during installation....then if u know DOS commands u can move the important files/folders, to other partition.....then experiment or format ur hard drive.
Install XP in the other Hard drive(u can do this without formating the disk...and ultimately no loss of data.....then format the corrupt HDD using windows.
2007-04-27 23:51:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may have to make the second disk as master and install the OS there. Make your problematic drive as slave. Once the system boots and you get to windows, you should be able to read your files on the problematic drive.
2007-04-28 00:18:31 · answer #3 · answered by Karz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can use a data recovery place that specializes the recovery of data, or you can save everything you can to disk and then reformat the drive
2007-04-27 23:39:31 · answer #4 · answered by Pyria 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋