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"Lost" more than likely not. It might be a challenge in getting them back.
You say that the box wont boot. What do you mean? Does the machine not post, or get any power at all? Not booting describes alot of different things. If the machine posts but windows doesnt open you should get some kind of message or blue screen of death, maybe even black but we would know that the bio is getting things going and that the psu is working. If there is no post then we could at the bio and if no power we'd want to look at the psu. Early dyno of the psu is of course making sure the plug is plugged into the box and socket good, then if the socket has power to it. If all this is good then checking the psu itself is rather easy in that all you really have to do is install a new one.
Theres ways of pulling info off a HD it just depends on how much its worth to you. I'm not just talking money wise but time wise also.
You say that the box wont boot. What do you mean? Does the machine not post, or get any power at all? Not booting describes alot of different things. If the machine posts but windows doesnt open you should get some kind of message or blue screen of death, maybe even black but we would know that the bio is getting things going and that the psu is working. If there is no post then we could at the bio and if no power we'd want to look at the psu. Early dyno of the psu is of course making sure the plug is plugged into the box and socket good, then if the socket has power to it. If all this is good then checking the psu itself is rather easy in that all you really have to do is install a new one.
Theres ways of pulling info off a HD it just depends on how much its worth to you. I'm not just talking money wise but time wise also.
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I'm the worst at backing up my docs an pics. one day my hard drives will go belly up and all my stuff will be lost. I should do a back up right now. I send my pics to the external drive as back up but, I really need to burn them to disk too.
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I have duplicates of all my pictures on two separate hard drives for backup purposes.
I recently lost my main computer's CPU. The thing wouldn't even POST but make a high/low/high/low beeping noise that ended up being a fried CPU.
Simple matter of removing the hard drives from the computer and installing them in a different computer and all is back.
Now I just need to get the main computer replaced so I can actually edit those photos.
500mhz P3 with a non-3d video card is just a tad slow for that.
I recently lost my main computer's CPU. The thing wouldn't even POST but make a high/low/high/low beeping noise that ended up being a fried CPU.
Simple matter of removing the hard drives from the computer and installing them in a different computer and all is back.
Now I just need to get the main computer replaced so I can actually edit those photos.
500mhz P3 with a non-3d video card is just a tad slow for that.
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ya all it'll do is turn on and run a few seconds and shut back off. i did go buy a new one yesterday spose to be top of the line(for 3grand it better be!!) i would at least be able to get my stuff off the old one to put in te new one.
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Originally Posted by wizzard351
ya all it'll do is turn on and run a few seconds and shut back off. i did go buy a new one yesterday spose to be top of the line(for 3grand it better be!!) i would at least be able to get my stuff off the old one to put in te new one.
If it doesn't recognize it then forget about it..
If there is stuff you absolutely need Seagate(As well as others) has a recovery service.. It is not cheap.. I priced it out for a customer and they wanted $1400.00
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Originally Posted by wizzard351
ya all it'll do is turn on and run a few seconds and shut back off. i did go buy a new one yesterday spose to be top of the line(for 3grand it better be!!) i would at least be able to get my stuff off the old one to put in te new one.
I bet you have 2 HDs in that thing. You could unhook your master HD and install your old one then backup your old HD to the "slave". I hate to say that cause its going to be setup as cable select but yopu should get what I'm saying.
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