HDD USB cradle

[Terry Holland]

I have a problem with my pc. Having installed SP2 my machine continually
rebooted itself after about 10 mins even if starting in safe mode. I
decided (stupidly) to uninstall SP2 without resolving reboot prob. The
machine rebooted during uninstall and now wont start up at all.

Ive tried re-installing XP and get the following message having set boot
sequence to CD, Floppy, HDD
"Reboot & select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot
device"..

If I set boot sequence to Floppy, CD,HDD and boot from XP floppy set,
system boots up ok but at the section that says to remove floppy and reboot
i get the message
"Reboot & select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot
device" again.

Before going too much further I was wanting to transfer some data from my
HDD to my laptop. I was wondering if there was such a thing as a cable that
would connect my hdd at one end to a usb at the other so that I can plug it
into my laptop & transfer any data that I need. I was then going to do a
clean install of xp

 

[Terry Holland]

Yes you can buy an external IDE device case which has USB and / or Firewire
connectivity. Yes you can mount your hard drive in it: provided it's an IDE
drive and not SATA.

Then run the network wizard and setup the desktop and move over to the
laptop and do the same [make sure the desktop shares its internet connection].
"Terry Holland" wrote:

Can I do this if I can't start up my PC other than when I use the xp startup
floppy discs?

 

[Terry Holland]

Yes you can buy an external IDE device case which has USB and / or Firewire
connectivity. Yes you can mount your hard drive in it: provided it's an IDE
drive and not SATA.

But these are much more expensive that using an ethernet cable between the
PC and Laptop. 99.99% of all laptops have ethernet adapter in-built and a
majority of Desktop mobo's also have it in-built. If your desktop doesn't
then buy a Network Interface Card for you desktop [then cost about US $10]
and a straight thru ethernet cable of whatever length you prefer [these will
cost US $10 for a 15 foot cable].

Then run the network wizard and setup the desktop and move over to the
laptop and do the same [make sure the desktop shares its internet connection].
"Terry Holland" wrote:

But can I do this if I can't start up XP on my PC?