Anyone out there a genius on computers ?
a yorkshire chappie prepared to visit would be nice!
my computer is poorly.
i would reformat but loads of info i would rather not lose!
windows loads up then freeze, been having problems with it starting then hanging up or shutting itself down!now its dead.
fortunately i have a spare drive ,but would like other drive recovering ,or data saved before formatting!
cheers in advance!

 

Sounds like it has a virus or trojan on it. My stepson's has a similar problem and it ain't easy to fix. Well I ain't sorted it yet anyway.

Good luck.

 

Can't you replace the poorly drive with the spare one, re-install Windows from scratch, then fit the old one as a D drive and copy the data you want to save?

mb

 

drives are on slide out carriage ,so i pull poorly one out and swap for good.
have tried over installing windows to no avail, it says allsorts of files are missing!
cheers

 

why dont you use the other drive to install a frsh copy of windows and disconnect the drive with all yer important files on,,,then once you have the frsh copy of xp running, install good a/v and introduce the poorly drive back to your pc
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not sure what you are saying

 

SS,

• REMOVE the faulty drive.
• Replace it with the SPARE.
• Install Windows FROM SCRATCH on the SPARE drive
• As furrydice79 also says, install a good AV program on the new system (the one on the SPARE drive).
• When you are happy with the new system (on the SPARE drive), re-insert the FAULTY drive as an ADDITIONAL DRIVE.
• Boot the new (SPARE) drive, and you should hopefully see the old (FAULTY) drive as a new drive letter (most probably D: ).
• Copy the files that you want to keep from the old (FAULTY) drive to the new (SPARE) drive.
• When you are happy that you have a working system on the new (SPARE) drive, reformat the old (FAULTY) drive to use as data storage (and thus overwriting any viruses or corrupt Windows files).
• From this point onwards, consider storing ALL of your data on what was the faulty drive, so if Windows gets broken, you simply re-install without having to copy data around.
• Think seriously about backing up your data on a regular basis, so you don't end up in this situation again

mb

 

And I hope you appreciate the trouble boomer went to, to add bullets.

Althought a little ****, it definitely helps get his points across, don't you think ?

 

I live down the road in Doncaster if you want a hand?

 

contact SwissTony, bit good with the old computers seeing as it's his living, can bamboozal with computer jargen, i haven't got a fecking clue. (not yorkshire though)

 

Nah, but a numbered list - that would be ****

mb

 

Looks like its on my motherboard
started up this morning on good drive that i reformatted recently, and it kept restarting and hanging up like bad drive!.

cheers for replies though!

 

hehe you cant get a virus 'on the motherboard' Well the bios could be corrupted but very rare and as the system booted it wouldn't be that.

Did you remove the old drive before installing on the new one?

 

Maybe it's the IDE cable (Hard Drive Data Cable' that's at fault).
Can you change this for another one?

 

yeah have a spare ide cable , will try that!
Cheers

 

Try removing hardware and see if it makes any difference. Run with one stick of ram for instance, etc, etc.

 

kept crashing then coming onto bios screen when restarted ,asking for check cpu speed ,clock counter. when confirmed , it started.

flashed bios on motherboard yesterday, so far so good

 

If you are still stuck mate, you can send me your "broken drive" and i will try and recover your data and then i shall burn it to DVD or CD for you and send it back.

This really is not a big job.

 

Thanks for replies think its new computer time!

 

When you get your new machine also get Norton Ghost or similar and create regular backups of your drive to DVD or external/removal drive.

Saves all this crap your going through.