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[darkdill]

If there's something wrong with your harddrive, and you have another spare one, use the other one as the primary, and once you get into Windows and all, reconnect your old one as an additional drive so you can copy everything you need to your now-primary drive.

Sounds like that'd work to an extent, but I actually have to get the hard drive first...

ya know you could attach a flash drive and have the computer boot from that, and then just use the bios of your motherboard to find and transfer whatever salvageable files you can.

I have not dealt much with a failed HDD as I usually just toss them and buy a new one, but I would expect your most saveable files would be pictures and documents.

If you don't mind me asking, what did you have saved onto your HDD that is the most important to you? Work files, family photos, music?

Personal stuff. That's all I'll say.

[Dan3345]

Ok well I only ask because if its work stuff it kind of ups the priority of saving it.

[darkdill]

Looking at some other sites and suggestions, I'm wondering if by posting up some Event Viewer logs, someone here might be able to help me determine exactly what the problem is.

How should I go about posting up such logs?

Edited by darkdill, 16 April 2012 - 01:30 AM.