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| Thread ID: 114598 | 2010-12-09 21:11:00 | how do you transfer files from HD | oregonjarhead (16122) | Press F1 |
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| 1160264 | 2010-12-09 21:11:00 | It looks like my windows files are corrupted and I will have to reformat the hard drive. My question is this: Is it posable to transfer the files on the corrupted hard drive to an external hard drive? the only other computer I have right now is a Mac and I could put the files on that temporarily if that would work better. Help me please I was stupid and kept putting off backing anything up but now I am in a position of loosing all music,pictures and ebooks on my system. Thanks, Don |
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| 1160265 | 2010-12-09 21:15:00 | Use a bootable CD (Knoppix, BartPE, something), or put the drive into another PC, or into an external caddy and connect to another PC. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1160266 | 2010-12-09 22:03:00 | Yes just boot from a bootable Cd containing a Linux OS and then mount the hard drive by clicking its Icon and you should be able to copy and paste data to the external hard drive | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1160267 | 2010-12-09 22:30:00 | I would suggest going to Dick Smith, JB Hifi or similar store and purchase an external USB hard drive (250GB - 1TB). Then follow the instructions from inphinity and gary67 above and then copy all the data you require to the USB hard drive. Their instructions are not that comprehensive so here is a link to a guy that explains how to use Knoppix to get data off a crashed windows drive. www.shockfamily.net If it does not work just Google for another one. Then once you have a working computer you can copy the data back. Then once you are back up and running you can use the USB hard drive to do regular backups. Microsoft has a free tool called synctoy that you can use to manually syncronise folders with a few clicks once setup, it's handy but if you are a bit lazy like me you may want to pay for a backup system that automatically backs up locally and then backs up really important information offsite. Good luck :) |
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