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Question

Machine is not booting

by Mar 10, 2015 5:01PM PDT

Myself Joseph White Wolf, I am having a PC at my residence, with Windows 7 operating system, 2 gb RAM, 1 TB of hard disk capability, it is near about 3 years old. From the day before yesterday, it is not booting at all. I have many important documents and business related papers there within the PC. What shall I do?

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Re: not booting at all
by Former Forum moderator Mar 10, 2015 6:12PM PDT

If you forgot to backup certain documents (some people do) open the case, take the hard disk out, put it in an external enclosure so you can access it via USB and use another (your new?) PC to copy the files form that old hard disk.

You could consider to keep using that old hard disk in that enclosure to backup things to in the future.

Kees

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Understood
by joseph_white_wolf Mar 10, 2015 8:02PM PDT

Got your point Kees, but I have not bought the new PC till now. Is it really easy to take back up after extracting the hard disk?

Joseph White Wolf

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Re: backup
by Kees_B Former Forum moderator Mar 10, 2015 8:27PM PDT

If your old PC doesn't boot, and you don't have another, you can't use that documents at all. So consider them as safely stored inside that broken PC until you need them.

Copying files from an external hard disk is just as easy as copying files from an internal hard disk.

Kees

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to remove a hard disk
by James Denison Mar 10, 2015 9:01PM PDT
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here you go
by James Denison Mar 10, 2015 9:10PM PDT
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Here's a hilarious video on it
by James Denison Mar 10, 2015 9:19PM PDT
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Use of ext. USB case
by Mar 11, 2015 12:05AM PDT

You have a non-booting PC and so far, you have no idea why it doesn't boot-up. Now, here's the deal, if the problem lies in the HD itself then you have to contend what if anything you can do to fix it. If the problem lies in the PC and NOT the HD, then mounting in an ext. USB case is the way to go. NO, this is not a back-up plan but enabling you to access you old HD of its data. Get whatever you need and store it elsewhere or burn to discs(CD/DVDs, etc.) and get back to work. You now know why we here at the forums always suggest a "back-up plan" long before this happens. Otherwise, if you have a true h/w fault with the HD itself, then only a costly data retrieval service is the answer, if you want that data that bad or business reasons.

I agree with the other posts here, i just summed it up for ya. I hope the ext. HD case is the answer.

tada -----Willy Happy

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