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Computer help please ?
my computer broke a few months ago. It will turn on but it stops before i can log on and it keeps repeating that process. I have over a thousand pictures stored on the computer. I heard the only way to get the computer fixed is if everything in the computer is removed. i dont care about the computer anymore but i want to get my pictures and stuff that i have saved. Is there anthing i can buy to do that. or is there anyway i can get the pictures otherwise?
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The person who told you that you have to replace everything is simply incorrect, most computer problems can be solved by changing 1 to 2 components and relatively little money ($0 to $150) when compared to buying a new PC. However, if you are really not interested in fixing your PC, you can purchase an external hard drive enclosure (about $15), remove the hard drive from your dead PC, install it in the external enclosure and connect it to a working computer to gain acess to its content. This will work unless of course your hard drive is what's causing the problem to begin with.
- 1 decade ago
You can try to log on in safe mode by pressing the f8 key repeatedly when you first turn on you computer until you get a screen with boot options. Select safe mode and it should boot up and you can retrive the files. If it still shuts down it might not be a software but a hardware issue.
- 1 decade ago
when computer is just turning on press F8 until you get list of options;
boot windows normally
safe mode
safe mode with networking
debug mode
directory services restore
disable system restart on system failure
..........
you will want to disable restart on system failure.
you want to do this before the computer loads windows
- 1 decade ago
To be safe i'd get someone who builds/repairs computers to take the hardrive out and if its not damaged then get him to copy the data onto another one.
Source(s): Experiance/ Samething happend to my sister, my dad took it to a comp specialists and he managed to get some off of it since the hdd was damaged. - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
where did you store all your picture in HDD , i mean that your hdd have partition or not, if yes which partition you store it, by another way you have to remove out your hard disk and bring it to your friend and ask him/her to access your hard disk as slave and copy out all the picture.
