HELP
I'm in Western Australia in the area hit by the big storms last week. We had a major 2 day power outage and a lot of surges etc when the power came back on.
Since the power has come back on, my computer hasn't been working properly. Firstly it started freezing up completely, CTRL ALT DEL wouldn't solve the problem so I had to use the reset switch. Then the scary stuff started happening. It wouldn't locate my Main Hard Drive during the start up process and I'd get an error message saying PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT. I"d reboot and the same thing would happen. I'd have to turn off the power and let cool down for a while before it would start up. Then it would fail to get past the windows start up screen, so I'd reset it again, Then it would start up properly and I could log in as normal. However it was excruciatingly slow and would take ages to open any programs etc.
Before this happened I'd installed the latest windows updates including IE7 which for some reason will not work properly on this computer. I've since uninstalled this upgrade, done a check disk, a clean disk, an adware scan, a virus scan and a spyware scan. But to no avail as it still crashed.
Today's plan was to baby it to life, get a hijack this log off it and post it on here to see if you guys can help me.
However on turning it on I got an error message saying that it had hung during the last start up due to an improper CPU Speed (which I've had a couple of times before). I've reset it all, restarted it again, it's done the inital start up tests etc, found the hard drive that it's been having problems with no drama, then I get this horrible message
RECOMMEND TO BACK UP ALL DATA ON HARD DRIVE AS HARD DRIVE FAILURE IS IMMINENT!!!!!!.
HELP. I've turned the computer in question off, (and am thanking my lucky stars I got a laptop just before xmas or I"d be sunk). But that hard drive has all my financial records, wages for our family farm etc and lots of very important stuff on it. I'm quite happy to put a new hard drive into the computer (great excuse to get a bigger hard drive lol), but I want to turn it on and back it up first.
Is it safe to turn it on?
is there some way I could install windows on one of my other hard drives (i have 3 in the computer all up) and then access the dodgy drive from within the computer to back up the data on it without using it to boot up the computer.
I'm not game to turn it on till I can back it up incase it dies on me completely, which means I cant get a hijack this log off it either.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Jo
I'm in Western Australia in the area hit by the big storms last week. We had a major 2 day power outage and a lot of surges etc when the power came back on.
Since the power has come back on, my computer hasn't been working properly. Firstly it started freezing up completely, CTRL ALT DEL wouldn't solve the problem so I had to use the reset switch. Then the scary stuff started happening. It wouldn't locate my Main Hard Drive during the start up process and I'd get an error message saying PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT. I"d reboot and the same thing would happen. I'd have to turn off the power and let cool down for a while before it would start up. Then it would fail to get past the windows start up screen, so I'd reset it again, Then it would start up properly and I could log in as normal. However it was excruciatingly slow and would take ages to open any programs etc.
Before this happened I'd installed the latest windows updates including IE7 which for some reason will not work properly on this computer. I've since uninstalled this upgrade, done a check disk, a clean disk, an adware scan, a virus scan and a spyware scan. But to no avail as it still crashed.
Today's plan was to baby it to life, get a hijack this log off it and post it on here to see if you guys can help me.
However on turning it on I got an error message saying that it had hung during the last start up due to an improper CPU Speed (which I've had a couple of times before). I've reset it all, restarted it again, it's done the inital start up tests etc, found the hard drive that it's been having problems with no drama, then I get this horrible message
RECOMMEND TO BACK UP ALL DATA ON HARD DRIVE AS HARD DRIVE FAILURE IS IMMINENT!!!!!!.
HELP. I've turned the computer in question off, (and am thanking my lucky stars I got a laptop just before xmas or I"d be sunk). But that hard drive has all my financial records, wages for our family farm etc and lots of very important stuff on it. I'm quite happy to put a new hard drive into the computer (great excuse to get a bigger hard drive lol), but I want to turn it on and back it up first.
Is it safe to turn it on?
is there some way I could install windows on one of my other hard drives (i have 3 in the computer all up) and then access the dodgy drive from within the computer to back up the data on it without using it to boot up the computer.
I'm not game to turn it on till I can back it up incase it dies on me completely, which means I cant get a hijack this log off it either.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Jo