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Mike D
Mike D asked in Computers & InternetHardwareDesktops · 1 decade ago

My computer drive stopped working and now my computer wont boot, what is the problem?

I have 2 hard drives in my computer. One I use for media, the other i use for programs and operating system. The hard drive I use for media stopped working today and now my computer won't boot up. I see the windows logo with the progress bar thing underneath, then I get a blue screen and before I can read it my computer restarts. I tried safe mode almost everything. I read something that made me think this is a virus...if it is how do I get rid of it WITHOUT starting new. I have a serious amount of class work that I CANNOT delete. Also, the hard drive that is not working is unplugged.

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  • Arnak
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Hi,

    Assuming that your operating system is located on the working drive then is there anything on the disabled drive that would be required by windows at startup that it now can't find?

    Have you got your windows installation disks, if you have you can attempt a windows repair by booting with the install disk.

    If the class work is on the main drive then could you get an external caddy so that you can connect it to a friends computer through the usb port and take the data of that way.

    Failing that, put the main drive into another pc as a secondary drive and get at the data that way.

    If you can get the data onto another pc then it could be burnt to a cd for use elswhere.

    I assume that you didn't make a backup of the data.....????

    Just mail me if you need more help.

    Arnak

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well is your operating system (windows) installed on the hard drive thats not working? If so, you will need to reinstall windows. The other issue could be the jumpers need to be reset as the primary master on the good hard drive, and you need to make sure your bios settings are correct.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    See if you can set a restore point before the problem

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