Re: Laptop with windows XP won't start up. Need help for fix/save.

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"John Davis" <noman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OeTOKkd7IHA.2260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks so much, gentlemen.

Now, where do I find instructions for installing the hard drive in the 2.5" USB case?

Very few are needed. They plug together, then you use a small phillips screwdriver.

Get the case that matches your drive, by which I mean IDE or SATA.

Laptop dive cases come with a three-headed cable as the power draw of a hard disk can be an amp, and a single USB port draws half that. Plug the larger ends into two separate ports, then attach the drive.

That's pretty much all you need to know.



Also, is there any particular reason that you didn't recommend for me to follow columnist Bill Husted's advice? I'll post it again, just for good measure:

The reason is that IIRC you reported error messages that indicate drive damage or failure. You generally can't fix that, and I have sometimes found that in these situations chkdsk does more damage that good.

In any case, if the drive is developing errors, it has become unreliable and should be replaced.

You really need to connect the drive to something else and try to get the data off before you do anything else.

Once you have the data safely off, you can try whatever you want. But you probably can't rely on the drive, so why waste your time?

HTH
-pk



I was staring at the dreaded blue screen
of death - a suitable name for any video game disaster. But this was no
game. It was a warning from Windows of a dangerous error that brought my PC
to a dead stop.
At first I didn't worry. Stuff happens, even stuff this drastic. Even the
text of the error message notes that by saying to just restart the PC if the
error isn't one that is frequently encountered. It wasn't a frequent
problem, so I did restart. Or tried to. The blue screen of death greeted me
again.

Now, here's what you should do if that happens to you. In most cases, it'll
fix the problem:

Use the Windows installation CD to restart the computer. You'll eventually
get to a screen that offers the opportunity to press the "r" key to get to
the Windows Recovery console. Once there, you can type this command:
chkdsk/p




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