Restoring Hard Drive Back After Crash

[TheOrakul]

Hello, i have a comaq presario computer with win 2k. Due to a virus ,my hard drive crashed . When i try and boot up i get the blue screen of death telling me there is an error and i need to consult manufacturer . Is there a way i can restore my hard drive and get my files on there back even though the hard drive has crashed, if so can you tell me the steps.

Thanks !!

 

[electronicsfreak]

If you can press F8 as soon as your booting , hit it repeatedly untill you are brought to a screen with options, then choose safe mode and see if you can load up in there.

Let us know if that works. If you mean no windows is working reply to this and let us know. If neither works you can get a dell restore disc and reinstall over the os or borrow someone elses copy and use your serial.

 

[TheOrakul]

It's fixed. I installed the damaged drive as a secondary slave drive , and rebooted the computer . Once at the main screen, I clicked the my computer icon to see if the damaged drive was recognized and it was. All my files and information is still there for me to acess, so i didnt loose a thing .The problem is that the damaged drive was not loading, so i piggy backed it off the master drive to load and it works.I learned my lesson and from now on will save ALL my info to a back up disc.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Glad to hear you got it fixed, thats always good to hear lol got lucky on this one.