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After power outage yesterday when I turned my pc on it started to boot and
went to the screen asking for safe mode, safe mode with command prompt etc,
including the option to do last configuration. I tried all 5 option with no
results. It goes to the windows logo and then there's stops and reboots
itself. In between all there are various screens including a blue screen
that flashes by faster than it can be read. So I tried booting with my
installation disk and get to windows setup window and go to repair. I do
chkdsk c: and chkdsk c: /p and /r and various other iterations of that. It
doesn't seem to really check anything but after a little pause, gives a
message that there is one or more operations - or similar wording -
unrecoverable. Then I reboot and at the windows setup I hit enter to
install Windows XP so I can repair it. But it doesn't even look for another
installed OS, it goes straight to the window asking to choose a partition and
gives one choice which is c: partition1 [unknown] and lists the size as that
of my hard drive. When I hit that it next goes to format -- at which point I
exited as I don't wish to format or lose the files on my hard drive.
Can someone help me here? Right now I have no idea what to do next to
salvage my programs and files. I've got some very important files on my c:
drive that I can't afford to lose.
My computer techie doesn't think it's hopeful but wants to try and put in
another hard drive and then see if he can recover the files that way.
Any other ideas on what to do here?
If any one does, please help. Thanks!
went to the screen asking for safe mode, safe mode with command prompt etc,
including the option to do last configuration. I tried all 5 option with no
results. It goes to the windows logo and then there's stops and reboots
itself. In between all there are various screens including a blue screen
that flashes by faster than it can be read. So I tried booting with my
installation disk and get to windows setup window and go to repair. I do
chkdsk c: and chkdsk c: /p and /r and various other iterations of that. It
doesn't seem to really check anything but after a little pause, gives a
message that there is one or more operations - or similar wording -
unrecoverable. Then I reboot and at the windows setup I hit enter to
install Windows XP so I can repair it. But it doesn't even look for another
installed OS, it goes straight to the window asking to choose a partition and
gives one choice which is c: partition1 [unknown] and lists the size as that
of my hard drive. When I hit that it next goes to format -- at which point I
exited as I don't wish to format or lose the files on my hard drive.
Can someone help me here? Right now I have no idea what to do next to
salvage my programs and files. I've got some very important files on my c:
drive that I can't afford to lose.
My computer techie doesn't think it's hopeful but wants to try and put in
another hard drive and then see if he can recover the files that way.
Any other ideas on what to do here?
If any one does, please help. Thanks!