Re: Windows OS .... troubles and can't access my cad files - BACKUP yours.

Swapping the drives will do no good. What he meant was to add
the corrupted drive as a secondary drive in another machine.
Presumably a desktop machine.

What you can do is buy on of those kits that converts an
internal drive to a USB drive...hook it up to your laptop that
works and it'll be recognized as an extra drive that you can access
and copy your files from and save them.

That's assuming you consider that you're going to have to reinstall
the O.S. on the bad drive.

If you keep trying you'll eventually be able to repair it but it can
be less trouble to just get your stuff off it and do a reinstall.

If you want to go the linux route you could download

http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php

you'll need to burn a cd which will boot from the CD drive.
It will allow access to your files and you could copy them off to a
USB Jumpdrive.

John




--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Darren Lucke
<oneluckeboy@y...> wrote:

>
>
> Will this work w/ laptops (both are HP omnibooks)?
> I've upgraded before from 20 to 40 gb so I'm not
> concerned w/ swapping but thoguht OS was on hd thus
> the same prob w/ boot up, no??
>
> The other linux type program may be what I try
> tomorrow... this has me more beat trying to understand
> it than learning CNC... haha..
>
> Darren
> --- Ken Strauss <ken.strauss@s...> wrote:
>
> > I haven't followed all of the messages but...
> >
> > Why not just remove your disk drive and attach it to
> > the other computer and
> > copy the needed files (assuming that both are
> > running W2K or XP)? If the
> > file structure is not damaged this will work
> > perfectly and you'll still have
> > the disk to attempt recovery without fear that
> > you'll lose data.
> >
>
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