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Answer» Windows is not working so the best method is as said above to remove the drive and hook it up in a working machine as a slave drive...a laptop is no help in this situation.The best way to retrieve you data to your friend's laptop is to buy a cable for about $20 which will allow you to hook your HDD to your friend's laptop and transfer your pictures. Hopefully your harddrive is still functioning because we haven't established the REASON why your computer is not working. Just google HDD to USB cable.I will definitely try your advice. Why would me hard drive be fried? I am assuming I cannot open my pictures because my Windows XP is not authentic. Why I don't know but with the new Windows XP I bought this shoulsd fix that. i just don't want to lose the pictures. How can I transfer programs and their contents without being able to open them?Quote from: momma on October 23, 2007, 01:32:11 PM I will definitely try your advice. Why would me hard drive be fried? I am assuming I cannot open my pictures because my Windows XP is not authentic. Why I don't know but with the new Windows XP I bought this shoulsd fix that. i just don't want to lose the pictures. How can I transfer programs and their contents without being able to open them? I have an invalid copy of Windows XP on my other computer that I use for a sound studio and it's running perfectly. As far as I know an invalid copy of Windows just means you cannot take advantage of all the MS products like updates, etc. It should keep operating. That's why I said something could be amiss with your HDD. You don't need to open the pictures in order to save them. They're just files. If you connect your HDD to a laptop using this cable aforementioned it should treat your HDD as just another storage device.will your computer let you create a network. Check the computer to see if it has a network card ion it. If it doesnt they are realitvley cheap. (bout $10), and GRAB a cross-over network cable and connect the computer and the laptop together. Then share a file from the laptop over the network, and connect to the shared file through my network places. Then copy all of the files you want over the network.Quote from: momma on October 23, 2007, 08:45:29 AM Thank you all for your help. Unfortunatley I do not know someone who can help that is why I am here. .... This is what I was waiting for, after my FIRST comment, - to see if you felt it was possible. Either equipment/friend-wise, or skill/ability-wise. If you feel you cannot use the method I described, then you should give careful consideration to the value of the data. In other words, just how important are those pictures to you? There is no way for anyone here to answer that question. If you really, really, need to save them - then you should consider a computer repair shop. This means spending some money, of course. That's what you have to weigh against the value of those pictures. A computer repair shop would have another machine in which they could slave your drive, as I very briefly outlined. They could simply copy your stuff and burn it to CD for you. I can't imagine that they would charge you an arm and a leg for an easy job like that. This applies only if the whole problem is simply accessing the data, as you've said. If however, there is something wrong with your drive, or with your data somehow - as in corrupted - then you have a whole 'nuther kettle o' fish. Is there a computer repair shop anywhere within reasonable driving distance? Quote from: momma on October 23, 2007, 08:45:29 AM Thank you all for your help. Unfortunatley I do not know someone who can help that is why I am here. Are you all saying I will lose the pictures if I just load the new Windows XP CD. Is there anyway to load them on my friend's laptop? A way that is real easy--especailly since I can no longer open them. Thanks again. I just thought of another idea to kick around. Unfortunately, it too will cost you some money - but the money is not a complete loss. Buy another hard drive. Remove your old one. Install the new one. Install Windows XP. ( You did say you bought a new, LEGIT copy, right? full retail installation version, right? ) Get your computer working 100% with the new drive, and new install of WinXP. Now install your old hard drive as a slave.... and so on, as I outlined at first. Hey... it ain't free.... you'd be buying a new hard drive. But, after the job is DONE, you'd still have the hard drive to use, and we could all use more storage space. This is just another option to consider. Thought I'd mention it. Quote from: programming_pat on October 23, 2007, 04:53:19 PM will your computer let you create a network. Check the computer to see if it has a network card ion it. If it doesnt they are realitvley cheap. (bout $10), and grab a cross-over network cable and connect the computer and the laptop together. Then share a file from the laptop over the network, and connect to the shared file through my network places. Then copy all of the files you want over the network. She cannot get into Windows... The first method of pulling the drive and swapping it into a working machine is by far the easiest solution. momma there is no one you know who has a working computer ? ? ? This thread is spinning out of control.I brought the computer to a repair shop---thank you all for your help! We are awaiting with bated breath to hear the results of this exciting saga. Please post promptly when repaired.

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Windows is not working so the best method is as said above to remove the drive and hook it up in a working machine as a slave drive...a laptop is no help in this situation.The best way to retrieve you data to your friend's laptop is to buy a cable for about $20 which will allow you to hook your HDD to your friend's laptop and transfer your pictures. Hopefully your harddrive is still functioning because we haven't established the REASON why your computer is not working. Just google HDD to USB cable.I will definitely try your advice. Why would me hard drive be fried? I am assuming I cannot open my pictures because my Windows XP is not authentic. Why I don't know but with the new Windows XP I bought this shoulsd fix that. i just don't want to lose the pictures. How can I transfer programs and their contents without being able to open them?Quote from: momma on October 23, 2007, 01:32:11 PM

I will definitely try your advice. Why would me hard drive be fried? I am assuming I cannot open my pictures because my Windows XP is not authentic. Why I don't know but with the new Windows XP I bought this shoulsd fix that. i just don't want to lose the pictures. How can I transfer programs and their contents without being able to open them?

I have an invalid copy of Windows XP on my other computer that I use for a sound studio and it's running perfectly. As far as I know an invalid copy of Windows just means you cannot take advantage of all the MS products like updates, etc. It should keep operating. That's why I said something could be amiss with your HDD. You don't need to open the pictures in order to save them. They're just files. If you connect your HDD to a laptop using this cable aforementioned it should treat your HDD as just another storage device.will your computer let you create a network. Check the computer to see if it has a network card ion it. If it doesnt they are realitvley cheap. (bout $10), and GRAB a cross-over network cable and connect the computer and the laptop together. Then share a file from the laptop over the network, and connect to the shared file through my network places. Then copy all of the files you want over the network.Quote from: momma on October 23, 2007, 08:45:29 AM

Thank you all for your help. Unfortunatley I do not know someone who can help that is why I am here.
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This is what I was waiting for, after my FIRST comment, - to see if you felt it was possible. Either equipment/friend-wise, or skill/ability-wise.

If you feel you cannot use the method I described, then you should give careful consideration to the value of the data. In other words, just how important are those pictures to you? There is no way for anyone here to answer that question.

If you really, really, need to save them - then you should consider a computer repair shop. This means spending some money, of course.
That's what you have to weigh against the value of those pictures.

A computer repair shop would have another machine in which they could slave your drive, as I very briefly outlined. They could simply copy your stuff and burn it to CD for you. I can't imagine that they would charge you an arm and a leg for an easy job like that.
This applies only if the whole problem is simply accessing the data, as you've said.

If however, there is something wrong with your drive, or with your data somehow - as in corrupted - then you have a whole 'nuther kettle o' fish.

Is there a computer repair shop anywhere within reasonable driving distance?

Quote from: momma on October 23, 2007, 08:45:29 AM

Thank you all for your help. Unfortunatley I do not know someone who can help that is why I am here. Are you all saying I will lose the pictures if I just load the new Windows XP CD. Is there anyway to load them on my friend's laptop? A way that is real easy--especailly since I can no longer open them. Thanks again.

I just thought of another idea to kick around. Unfortunately, it too will cost you some money - but the money is not a complete loss.

Buy another hard drive.
Remove your old one.
Install the new one.

Install Windows XP. ( You did say you bought a new, LEGIT copy, right? full retail installation version, right? )

Get your computer working 100% with the new drive, and new install of WinXP.

Now install your old hard drive as a slave.... and so on, as I outlined at first.

Hey... it ain't free.... you'd be buying a new hard drive.
But, after the job is DONE, you'd still have the hard drive to use, and we could all use more storage space.

This is just another option to consider. Thought I'd mention it.

Quote from: programming_pat on October 23, 2007, 04:53:19 PM

will your computer let you create a network. Check the computer to see if it has a network card ion it. If it doesnt they are realitvley cheap. (bout $10), and grab a cross-over network cable and connect the computer and the laptop together. Then share a file from the laptop over the network, and connect to the shared file through my network places. Then copy all of the files you want over the network.

She cannot get into Windows...

The first method of pulling the drive and swapping it into a working machine is by far the easiest solution.
momma there is no one you know who has a working computer ? ? ?

This thread is spinning out of control.I brought the computer to a repair shop---thank you all for your help! We are awaiting with bated breath to hear the results of this exciting saga. Please post promptly when repaired.

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