need alot of help

[scott]

I just put in some new ram on my computer today and my
computer was running fine before i did this but now i
cant even get windows to boot up. It will go through the
bios part and then stop. Is there anything that i can do
to where i dont have to erase my hard drive and start
over. I have alot of stuff that i dont want to lose on
there. Any help would be great.

 

[PaulM]

Put the old ram back in.

 

[scott]

the old ram is still in there, i just added a new stick,
its recognizing all the ram

 

[Steve C. Ray]

Take out the new ram, leaving the old in. Be sure it is seated properly.If
the computer boots OK with the old ram, the new is not the correct type.

 

[PaulM]

When you take the new ram out does it boot?

 

[scott]

I pretty much found out the problem but still need some
help, I went into dos through my other hard drive and
tried to get a directory of my main hard drive and got a
message that said "cannot access fat due to bad sector"
is there anyway that i can get into my main hard drive
without losing all my files. I dont have an operating
system on the other hard drive. any help would be
appreciated.