Flash Blue Screen

[Estame6]

ASUS/GE 1.8M 524M 40Ghd XP Pro SP2
Worked perectly for two years. Basic eMail, Family Pictures, Tunes etc.

Switching on goes through the bios set up and now tells me its been switched
off incorreclty and asks me to either start windows normally, safe mode, last
known etc.

Selecting start normally, I see the windows logo start up screen for few
seconds then a blue screen flashes and goes back to begining switch on
screen.

Selecting Safe Mode, screen show many loaded files, pauses then straight
back to the re-boot screen.

I have selected all the options with basically same results.

I followed a link explaining how to re-install xp from the repair option on the
installation disk but due to not being able to see the c: drive the repair option
wasn't available, just mentioned it was an unformatted partition and wanted to
format it and will loose all data.

Local computer repair outlet ran winteralls 2005. He booted up from cd and
tech said the c: drive it couldn't be mounted. He was real busy and was getting
nowhere so brought computer home.

I understand that I'm going to have to re-install a fresh copy of xp but would
like to try save some data and my address book etc.

My question: Is there a program that will allow me to access the hard drive in
dos mode (ntfs) and allow me to copy off some of these file?

Many thanks for reading this.

David...

 

[eyec]

if you have your XP cd, when you boot go into setup and change the boot sequence to CD first.

then reboot with the CD in the player.

let it go til it hits the install screen and asks if you want to REPAIR, select this option and it may bring your OS back to life.

 

[Estame6]

Thanks, Excellent suggestion. I mentioned I had tried that feature, it worked perfectly on another computer about a year ago.

But with this one, it can't regognize the c: drive so when you get the screen that offers the Repair, it only mentions that it sees an unformatted hard drive and wants to format it.

I am hoping someone has knowledge of a program that can mount a seemingly damaged c: drive.

Many thanks,

David...

 

[eyec]

option 2
slave it on another machine and see if you can see the data

 

[Freestone]

If it starts to boot Windows then the C: drive should be recognizable for a repair install. It's just a matter of figuring out why it isn't seen.

Two questions: do you have a program called GoBack installed on the C: drive? And what make and model is the motherboard?

 

[eyec]

it can start to boot windows and stop if the MBR or partition is corrupt also

 

[Estame6]

Many thanks for those suggestions, I connected my bad hard drive to another computer as a slave and was able to access the files and burn them to a cd. I guess I was lucky with this one, backing up my working data will be a weekly task from now on.

I have had this laptop hard drive that did a simular thing about 3 months ago and kinda wrote it off even though it had some files that I would have liked to have copied over.

Is it possible to connect a laptop hard drive to the PC, if so what type of cables am I looking for?

Again, many thanks for all your help.

Dave...

 

[havfunonline]

yes it is possible, I have a cable that does the job, but I've discovered I can't use it. You need a cable that goes from 44 pin to 40 pin, you can find them on ebay for peanuts, mine cost about £4 including delivery (I had a completely different problem)

 

[Estame6]

Thanks, I ordered a 44 pin to 40 pin cable and when it arrived found out that the 40 pin is a female connector.
The hard drive has what it seems to be a 40 pin row of bayonet type connectors. Is there another adaptor I need or is it just the wrong type of connector. Should I have ordered a different type but didn't know exactly what to seach for. Many thanks anyway, those things happen.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...1018832_W0QQfromZR40QQfviZ1&item=160131018832

Dave...

 

[Estame6]

Correction:

It is the smaller 44 pin that connects to the laptop hard drive. Is similar in appearence to the other end that connects to the motherboard. Both being the block type female connectors.

The ad read that it connects 44 pin slim notebook hard drives to and standard motherboard, which of course is what I thought I needed...