Open up the PC, if you think can deal with the cables and screws (and keeping things documented) then you shouldn’t have a problem.
Yes, the restore CD will bring the PC back to its original settings (NOS, where did u learn about ur version of restore?)
As NOS said, those files will be safe, but better to eject the cartridge out.
Once you have system rebuilt with the new hard drive, plug in the old drive and see if you can use some of the hints provided in this thread and recover files.
This probably is not the problem (I’m assuming there’s no hardware involved), although it may be the “tinka” that pushes the hard-drive into working hard and going over the edge.
As I said in my first point, this just might be worth the $100, but 2 weeks??? If you are in the NY area let me know
hey tofi, isn’t the restore disk just a repair disk which repairs a broken system file etc? or is it the one where they save an image of your HDD to the CD? … yeh … I think I mixed up both of 'em … all because of PD .. she’s been jumping on me head lately
Some computers (mostly branded, and laptops specially) come with System restore CDs (I just restored a Sony laptop yesterday). Those CDs would not only have the OS but all the bundled junk as well, to bring the PC back to square one.
I like your pointers tofi I still haven’t even got time to fill all those stuff on that site, I did try once but their site was down at that time. neways, g’luck AAG.
now nos I have been jumpin on ur head, you should be thankful to my weight its not broken yet
Yeh TOFI I know about the restore thing .. I just mixed it up ... my IBM lappie's got an image built into the HDD .. not that I use it anymore ... slows down the system after sometime ... I prefer a clean install .... (too lazy to ghost the image ... errr .. I don't have imaging software either)
Another question… Would a restore C.D. install original specs and software to a new hard-drive? We do have the license key number for her windows software…
Another question… If we unplug the zip drive (drive E) from the main tower will the files on the zip drive be lost?
Is there anyway to salvage files directly from the old drive?
In the mean time I vaccumed the fan area of the Tower really well..it was pretty dusty…and was able to run a scandisk auto repair on the system in safe mode and system did not crash for about a month…until my nephew used his nintendo code software..?? Could that be the problem? And the hard-drive is fine?
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if you are connecting your ipod and nintendo using usb then there might be a problem with the usb port every time the computer trys to powers it the computer crashes. i used to have a problem like this where my computer would reboot but i figured out it was the usb port i was using everytime id drew power it would get over powered so the comp for security would reset it self.
As for all you other questions what the other guys said is right. Putting on a harddrive can be hard if you dont know what you are doing so get on of your friends so somegthing to do it instead of a shop or buy the HD from circuit city it is free installation there. Your zip disk will not be effected at all.
I wonder how you discovered the power problem? I am a genius.
ok the problem can not be fixed all you can do is replace the mother board or just use different ports and avoid using that port.
A HDD in one of the comps at my place died down few days ago. I dont know what exactly went wrong with it but it had become totally inaccessible and no system would detect it even.
I used a software called GetDataBack (http://www.runtime.org/) and mashallah se it recovered 99% of my data from the HDD. I hooked up the HDD as a slave drive in another computer and ran the above software on it. Took about 3-4 hours but it did the job. Unfortunately i couldnt get the same results on another older HDD which had also been rendered inaccessible due to some reason.
Anyway so if you still have that HDD around, maybe you can give this method a go. Could be worth a shot.
its like the ‘freezing human body’ concept where they freeze your body after death …
… yeh … I think I mixed up both of 'em … all because of PD .. she’s been jumping on me head lately 
I still haven’t even got time to fill all those stuff on that site, I did try once but their site was down at that time. neways, g’luck AAG.
really what should I do now 
biryani ? 
… ballay ballay …
