papercrate
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Okay, I know my hard disk is dying, and I need to back up my files before it goes. Can anyone tell me how to do that (maybe step by step)? I'm pretty decent at computers and programming, but not at troubleshooting hardware problems. I just purchased an external hard drive so I can back up the files I need. Could somebody explain to be how to do this? When I press F1 to continue from the error on startup, it gives me another one:
Windows could not start, following file is missing or corrupt:
<windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Please reinstall a copy of that above file
How do I copy this file (could I copy it from a disk from a friends XP OS?) I would really like to get into XP (in any mode) so I could backup the data.
Also, I heard it suggested that I could slave the bad drive to another PC and access the files from there. How would I do that exactly?
If anyone can give me a play by play so as I could simply backup my data as easily as possible it would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
papercrate
Windows could not start, following file is missing or corrupt:
<windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Please reinstall a copy of that above file
How do I copy this file (could I copy it from a disk from a friends XP OS?) I would really like to get into XP (in any mode) so I could backup the data.
Also, I heard it suggested that I could slave the bad drive to another PC and access the files from there. How would I do that exactly?
If anyone can give me a play by play so as I could simply backup my data as easily as possible it would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
papercrate