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Bad Crash
My husband was transferring large files from his laptop
to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the copy was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried to do a SYS C:, but nothing happened. It is saying that "C" does not exist. We tried again and got a "no operating system found" error. There is a TON of important data on this PC and we need to get into it. Some is backed up, but not all. Is there anyone out there who has seen this and can help? Thank you very much! |
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Boot from a bootable floppy disk (Preferably a WIN98 or
WIN95 boot disk) , without CDROM drivers. Type "C:" and enter. Can you access drive? If you don't have a boot disk, download the files from http://www.bootdisk.com/. If you can boot to the A: drive and then enter C: to access the C:\ drive, enter dir /p at the C:\ prompt to see if the files are still there. If they're still there, I would try entering the command fdisk /mbr to fix the master boot record, whichj might have become corrupt. You don't lose any data with that command. It would warn you first if the data were wiped. If that doesn't work, entering "no operating system found" as is, in Google brings up plenty of links. Eric, http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- My husband was transferring large files from his laptop to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the copy was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried to do a SYS C:, but nothing happened. It is saying that "C" does not exist. We tried again and got a "no operating system found" error. There is a TON of important data on this PC and we need to get into it. Some is backed up, but not all. Is there anyone out there who has seen this and can help? Thank you very much! . |
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Thanks. What happens when you can get to the "C" drive?
-----Original Message----- Boot from a bootable floppy disk (Preferably a WIN98 or WIN95 boot disk) , without CDROM drivers. Type "C:" and enter. Can you access drive? If you don't have a boot disk, download the files from http://www.bootdisk.com/. If you can boot to the A: drive and then enter C: to access the C:\ drive, enter dir /p at the C:\ prompt to see if the files are still there. If they're still there, I would try entering the command fdisk /mbr to fix the master boot record, whichj might have become corrupt. You don't lose any data with that command. It would warn you first if the data were wiped. If that doesn't work, entering "no operating system found" as is, in Google brings up plenty of links. Eric, http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- My husband was transferring large files from his laptop to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the copy was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried to do a SYS C:, but nothing happened. It is saying that "C" does not exist. We tried again and got a "no operating system found" error. There is a TON of important data on this PC and we need to get into it. Some is backed up, but not all. Is there anyone out there who has seen this and can help? Thank you very much! . . |
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I meant to say, what happens when you can not see the "C"
drive? Tried to do the sys c: command from the A prompt from the boot up disk, but it does not recognize the drive. Looked through FDISK and does not even see the partition. Really concerned. |
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"Jeanne" wrote:
I meant to say, what happens when you can not see the "C" drive? Tried to do the sys c: command from the A prompt from the boot up disk, but it does not recognize the drive. Looked through FDISK and does not even see the partition. Really concerned. Download MBRWORK from the free software section of http://www.bootitng.com and see if it can recover the partition for you. Read the documentation and heed the warnings. Good luck. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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"Jeanne" wrote in message
... My husband was transferring large files from his laptop to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the copy was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried to do a SYS C:, but nothing happened. It is saying that "C" does not exist. We tried again and got a "no operating system found" error. There is a TON of important data on this PC and we need to get into it. Some is backed up, Task # 1 should be to put this hard drive into another PC as Drive 2, and copy over everything you can find. Then work on the copies rather than the original hard drive (which may be permanently unusable.) Because there was an operating system in the old PC its C: ought to show as D: in the new PC. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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happened to me....
on my 200GB drive.. Sorry but i lost all..ALL nothing helped me... i think it is some common problem with BIOS limitations... i suppose u hava old PC with new 80GB HDD...and there is problem...when you reach his limit (exmpl. 40Gb) HDD crashes... I am just interested did MBWORK program helped you... Good luck |
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