Help! Non-booting computer

[Guest]

I know some about computers but by no means am I a computer wiz. A couple of
days ago, I renewed my spyware subscription and antivirus. After running a
complete sweep, I quarantined cookies & viruses. Said I needed to restart
computer to finish quarantine. After restarting computer, it would not allow
me to open any programs, access the internet- nothing!! I then rolled back
to an hour before I performed the sweep, hoping this would fix it! However,
then after the black windows screen it would take me to the hp recovery
screen. I tried to enter safe mode- nothing. Now my computer turns on but
does nothing! Is there any way to retrieve my files & pictures from my hard
drive or has my computer crashed? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Rich Barry]

Your hard drive probably has all your files and pictures still on it.
Avoid HP Recovery since it will format and restore a
new system image giving you a fresh start but leaving you with ziltch.
If you can remove your drive and attach it to a
computer that is working you can transfer all your files.

 

[Guest]

I've never worked with removing the hard drive? I'm sure I could figure that
out. However, how do I attach it to another computer?

 

[Rich Barry]

If you can access another computer ( friend, family etc) you simply
attached your hard drive as slave on their computer or
as master on the secondary IDE channel ( hard drive motherboard connector )
If you have to disconnect their cdrom drive
temporarily to make room that's fine. Just remember to hook it up again
after you finish transfering files. Once the files
are transferred you can burn them to a CD or Dvd if they have a cd/dvd
burner.

http://askbobrankin.com/add_a_second_hard_drive.html

 

[Guest]

Thanks so much!! I will definitely give this a try!!