Replies

1 posted on 04/17/2009 4:01:32 PM PDT by Chickensoup

buy a new puter...they are dirt cheap...heck, you can go to your local electronics disposal place and pick one up out of the dump...don't sweat trying to fix it...

2 posted on 04/17/2009 4:06:01 PM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)

“what can [you] say?”

A little bit more than you have. Otherwise, if it is the same thing as you described a year ago, those old instructions should fix you again.

Does it make sense?

3 posted on 04/17/2009 4:06:09 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (When you're RuPaul posing as the wife of the president, you need all the make-up help you can get.)

I hope you made backups of anything that you really cared about.

4 posted on 04/17/2009 4:06:09 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee

Your harddrive is dead. You should have realized that a year ago when you posted your first thread.

I hope you backed up your important data.

5 posted on 04/17/2009 4:14:19 PM PDT by Jean S

If you tried all the other stuff, then please put your XP CD in and reformat your drive and reinstall XP from scratch. If your current hard drive is still good, this will work fine. (Disconnect your external Maxtor until XP is on.)

Once XP is on, load on your Maxtor software. Once that is on, then restore your last backup. If you last did an incremental, their software should let you identify that and it will find the earlier backups needed to complete it.

You'll be back up to your last backup's status within 4 - 6 hours.

7 posted on 04/17/2009 4:23:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (When you're RuPaul posing as the wife of the president, you need all the make-up help you can get.)

If you have a copy of like ‘98 or ME, install that first. Then do the XP install and set it up for dual boot.

I have dual boot on ALL my machines standard.

15 posted on 04/17/2009 4:33:14 PM PDT by djf (Live quiet. Dream loud.)

If the hard drive is still running and you have no backups, yes, it is possible to do some things that will bring it back, short of sending it off for “deep recovery services”. Unfortunately, Geek Squad and places like that won’t do that sort of work, using utilities such as Spinrite and such, just because it takes so much time.

Furthermore, although I’ve done all of those things and recovered things few would bother with, going that route can take days. Spinrite alone, if it appears that would be helpful, takes up to a day to do its full scan. Walking someone through this sort of stuff, even if it seems rather easy to me, is almost impossible over a forum. There are too many variables you just need to work around when they appear that might be apparent to me but not to you.

Honestly, if you have a backup as I believe you mentioned you did last year, this won’t be too bad. You’ll need to put the drive in and format it, but as long as your BIOS is set to automatically sense your hard drive, it should be okay. I assume your new drive uses the same cabling as your old one, so as long as that is true, you should be fine formatting it, putting XP on it, then your backup program, then restore from your backup. NOTE: Before formatting, disconnect your backup drive to assure you don’t accidentally format that instead.

I hope the best for you.

17 posted on 04/17/2009 4:33:40 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (When you're RuPaul posing as the wife of the president, you need all the make-up help you can get.)

Reformat and reload the OS.

That fixes everything OS related.

I format and reload my OSs every 6 months at the max.

18 posted on 04/17/2009 4:35:37 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Because I am against Abortion - The DNC Controlled Fed Says I am terrorist.)

Do you have any local computer stores in your area? I don't mean a Best Buy or such, but a smaller company. We have a local computer company that will do free diagnostics, they're Wisconsin based. You might want to send them a email, they give free advice to everyone. They've helped me more than once and I've always received a reply within a day or two. mpcradio@milwaukeepc.com

Their website is Milwaukee PC

37 posted on 04/17/2009 5:30:50 PM PDT by Jean S

your hard drive drove hard and crashed ..it’s dead ...

53 posted on 04/17/2009 6:00:08 PM PDT by Gone_Postal ("Men who say it cannot be done, should not interupt those doing it.")

Get a Mac mini for $500

58 posted on 04/17/2009 6:50:34 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)

Did you get this all resolved?

63 posted on 04/23/2009 2:07:15 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (When you're RuPaul posing as the wife of the president, you need all the make-up help you can get.)

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794