tried slaving it into another computer. it says the drive is not formatted with a file system. if it formats it to ntfs it will wipe out the drives info and thats what i'm trying to avoid, atleast till i can see if there is a way to recover the few files i need.
unfortunately your not the first one i've herad this from and i'm hoping thats not the problem. just bought the drive, not new though. someone mentioned to me about a low level copy? ever here of it? and yes i did learn the hard way, time to back it all up!!! thanks for the info.
i have 250 gig hard drive that had xp on it. i came home one day and turned it on and it would only boot to welcome screen. i typed in my password and would get desktop and wall paper and thats it. no icons or task bar. booted to safe mode and tried a virus scan and a few other things and...
just for s & g's i uninstalled all my old codecs and installed the xp codec that a friend linked to me and i worked so far. i can eject the disc and it doesn't reboot. the only thing that happened with uninstalling those codecs is some files must have gotten deleted and every time i boot up i...
video format is mpg or avi. haven't tried coping to hard drive then playing it. the disc was burnt a long time ago with roxio 5. could this be the problem? maybe i have to copy all to hard drive then reburn it with new software???
i have an older computer that i built myself to save a little cash. my iomega cd burner died on me so i replaced it with a new dvd burner from new egg. the dvd drive is a lite on, but comes up in diagnostic software as an ATAPI DH20A4P. the firmware is 9p59. the system recognizes the frive...
hey bruceb thanks for the info. it worked. i found i had 2 problems. the boot disks i had were bad. must have got next to heat or something and the floppy drive was bad too. i changed floppies and tried my disks and they still didn't work. i tried it your way and it worked. booted from...
i was given an old gateway computer for free loaded with win 98. it had some problems and needed to be reloaded. i wasn't given the the original gateway install cd, but i do have my own version of 98. i formatted the C drive from the "C" prompt and tried to install it but it won't recognize any...
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