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I have reason to believe these are the safest options:
a) Remove the hard-drive, add it to another functional unit and transfer all the data to external portable hard-drive. Once data is secured, then do a complete re-install of operating system on problem computer.
b) Create Windows startup disk, use disk at startup effectively bypassing the "broken" startup files. Once into computer, manually move important data to external portable hard-drive.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6031733.html (Option #1)
Does this second option risk any further problems or loss of data??? I can't risk the loss of any data.
What is my safest option? I am under no time-contraints to do either option. Either action would be performed by knowledgable computer techie.
Any additional comments or things to be aware of?
2007-06-19 06:14:10 · 7 answers · asked by Malvaro 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I say A) slave it in another working machine. If that doesn't work take it to a data recovery place and let the experts deal with it. They will do a free diagnostic and determine what the problem is. http://www.cbltech.com
2007-06-22 03:54:39 · answer #1 · answered by JT_8 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have not said what the problem is.. is the system not booting up.
DON'T take the drive out and put it with another drive, you could lose the MBS (master boot sector) on the drive you want the files off. if that happens you've lost everything,
I have a DOS GUI (Graphical User Interface) Boot disk program that will do the job.. you can see everything your doing.
PM me
2007-06-19 13:37:27 · answer #2 · answered by Carling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
data recovery for a crashed operating system or hard drive....well the safest and best is always copy the info or use ghost to clone the drive to another working drive. then reinstall the operating system a fresh...as the old operating system could have had a worm that killed the drive
2007-06-19 13:21:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
choice a) is safer, if you add your hard drive to another computer correctly. i mean make sure of slave/master selects. during unplugin and plugin your hard drive move it slowly to protect it from physical damage.
but if you cant do it correctly better use b).
2007-06-19 13:28:03 · answer #4 · answered by tleilaxu_dune 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After this, backup your data to an external HDD. You should also create backups, on DVD's
2007-06-19 13:24:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use system restore as it works better now then it ever did
2007-06-27 02:09:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A
2007-06-19 13:17:53 · answer #7 · answered by fred12ned 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋