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# 9 19-04-2007 , 01:36 PM
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kinda got bored reading through all this nonsense... so i didn't bother, sorry. if you're having problems getting into windows as it is, then i would recommend getting another laptop hard drive. they're relatively cheap nowadays, and if you have the ability to connect more than one, then you should be able to install your operating system onto the primary drive, then leech off of your secondary drive, as you don't need to run windows (or OS) off of it anymore. any secondary drive should show up as independent, and you SHOULD be able to navigate it like any hard drive and find the files you wanna save. if you were hit with a virus or the like, then the recommended solution would be to run your anti-virus program on the infected drive, and THEN try to copy whatever files you need from it - then reformat that drive.

IF you happened to be running windows and also saving your files to the same hard drive, you should be able to recover your lost files by just adding the hard drive that has your data as a secondary (or even tertiary) drive and just cutting or copying your data (assuming it's still intact) to your new drive or to a new partition.


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