Re: hard drive

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Thanks for all the advice guys, I did take the system to a professional and
he offered to do the job for a large fee. I am somewhat computer savy and
will try your suggestions. Another prob, and I did try on 2 working PC's, is
when the HD is connected as a slave the minute I plug in the power supply,
it shuts the whole system down! So I'll try these suggestions and let you
know how or if anything works.
Tami

"Malke" wrote:

> Jack wrote:
>
> > Linux will most certainly be able to read the files and burn them to a
> > cd for you, however, you might try repairing the boot sector on the
> > hard drive from the XP recovery console (fixboot and fixmbr)
> >
> > I would really try that 1st. as Linux is not real easy to set up
> > unless you are familiar with the distros and burning ISO files.
> >
>
> Actually, Knoppix is quite easy to use - all you have to do is boot with
> the cd and you will be put in a gui that will be pretty familiar to
> Windows users - but you are right about burning the .iso's. It really
> depends on the OP's skill level what will work for her. Since she was
> posting via the web interface and hasn't come back, let's hope she just
> took the machine to a local professional instead. ;-)
>
> Malke
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