Thanks. I actually did think about the 'safe mode' booting. I know, I am
supposed to hold down the F8 key, right when the booting starts. But, from
there? Anyone could provide me the number of presses, I will need onthe up
or down-arrows, so as to hit 'Safe mode'?
I am all on my own, and blind, so no chance to tell what messages or other
funny things would be on the screen. Still, it definately looks like a
software thing, since all the data seem to be intact, when I copy them off
from the disk. So, yes, the safe-mode-boot is a good idea, if only I could
manage to hit the 'right choice' without seeing the screen.
Thanks again, everyone!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Jacobson" <[email protected]>
To: "WE English mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: Urgent! Help needed with a hard disk roblem
Do you know what error message you are getting? It could be that you only
need to boot up into safe mode once and
do a normal shutdown. You may have to run a CHKDSK from the Safe Mode
command Prompt. If you received a
boot disk with the computer, it may have some Windows Repair utilities
that can repair any dammaged Windows files.
Unfortunately, all of these things cannot be done with speech.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:56:32 +0100, David wrote:
All tech guys on this list!
Need help with a strange problem.
The thing happened, that never should happen: In the middle of a disk
defragmentation the power went off, on my
desktop computer. Now, when switching it on, it does not start loading the
Windows XP Pro operating system.
First, I thought I might have lost everything. Good thing, I gave it a
chance. I took out the SATA disk, and connected
it to my laptop, via a cable. It came up right away, and I was able to
copy ALL my data - from the SATA (desktop) disk,
to a backup place on my laptop. I can read, play and modify the contents
of the SATA disk, with no problem. So, at
least, it seems to me, the disk itself has no hardware flaws.
Kind of get a feeling, there might have occured some kind of damage to the
file system, that does not affect the
contents itself, but might make the desktop computer not seeing the disk
as a 'SYSTEM' disk.
Whilst connected to my laptop, I ran DISKMGMT.MSC, so as to see what the
status of the partition is. Here the
SATA disk shows up as
Drive E: - Partition Basic - Healthy - (Active) - 58.5 gb
My C: drive of the laptop, says System, instead of Active. This should be
OK, far as I can see.
Now, all you tech guys, please: Is there a way for me, to make the SATA
disk from my desktop a Systemdisk? In the
old DOS days, I remember there was a command called SYS, that would
accomplish this task. Seems this is no longer
the case, in Windows XP. But is there any other workaround? Or, anyone has
an idea, as to how I might get the
desktop again to recognize the disk as the primary system disk, and load
my operating system?
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