that's okay at least you were there to deal with my crazy frustration/sadness over losing all my school work. thanks buddy. that's what i call a real friend

 

 

reformat and install windows 7

 

no bueno

 

si todo es muy malo ahora.. estoy muy triste..

i was very very very sad.. the sucky thing is none of my stuff is backed up since i didn't have my external hard drive or usb.. which sucks even more.. i have a couple of friends who offered to help but i won't be able to do anything about the laptop right now since i'm so busy.. this couldn't have happened at a better time.. *sarcasm*

 

were you transferring files from that external to your main hdd?

were you doing other things that was accessing your main lappys hdd?

there could be other factors. maybe there was a fatal error with itunes while you were using it, AND/OR any other program you had open or were running which caused the entire windows to shut down..

and during this time again if your hdd was working, during the shut down it corrupted files.. not just any files, but important windows system files and/or boot sector.

that is why you cant load windows. this is common.

It happened to me and with friends I know.

There are ways to retrieve your files through several methods, some already mentioned by people.

Here is a ghetto one, but works, but takes more time.
Just reinstall windows in a different directory, once its complete, save the files, then reformat and put windows 7

 

Can't you reinstall Windows with the files intact so you can salvage whatever documents you need? I know when I had computer troubles, I would try an install of windows w/ files intact, meaning not formatting the hard drive to install windows. You can get back all your files, pictures, music, but all installed drivers and programs will be deleted. And I've never done this before, but isn't it possible to take out the hard drive and do a USB set up somehow with one of those enclosures and just get the files off that way? I'd do that first incase installing windows messes up even more. And I think there aer some computer shops that will try to save your files for a fee. If they are that important and if the price isn't too much, you should definitely look into it.

 

and ideas^

 

Yes and yes, but its made the more difficult because its a netbook.

put an OS disk on a thumb drive and boot from that.

 

How do u do that?


So the flash drive should open and start installing the new OS when booting up, as if a cd were in?

 

thats correct. You press F12 or whatever to select a boot device

Use an ISO utility to image the CD or DVD onto a blank flash drive.

Use the steps here
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-5928902.html

Its like having a hard drive with teh OS already on it. Put Win7 or Vista or something on it and upgrade the XP installation. Then you can recover all files at least. I think that would be the quickets.

 

Bring it by San Jose or Morgan Hill, I can fix it.

 

How much do you charge to fix?

 

this might be our problem
her comp is like 4/5 years old

 

pm me