bass4urface Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 Hopefully there are some computer nerds/geeks out there to help me. Don't take offense to that, I'm one my self, just not as skilled as others. A noob you could say. But enough of that crap. I have a dell tower that has either crashed or just won't stop bitching. I have hundreds of gigs worth of music on one of the hard drives. I was curious if I would be able to remove that hard drive from the tower safely, and transfer the data from that drive to an external drive that I have. I'm not able to access the computer, only the set-up and system diagnostics. Can anyone help? Please? I'm in quite a pickle... Quote "Everytime I ride by, she like the way the jet black Caddilac shine, make her say Oh My..." 2 Pioneer 12"s Pioneer Amp Pioneer Headunit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.NeT Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 Need some more details. Did the HDD crash? What type of error did you get? Blue screen? won't boot? black screen? says no op system installed? or what? I will be glad to offer some assistance. Depends what type of crash it was if it can still be recovered or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass4urface Posted December 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 Need some more details. Did the HDD crash? What type of error did you get? Blue screen? won't boot? black screen? says no op system installed? or what? I will be glad to offer some assistance. Depends what type of crash it was if it can still be recovered or not. When I turn the computer on, it says Dell and goes through the auto adjust, and then the screen just stays black. It almost looks darker in the center with lighter black on the edges. At that point it just stays there. Quote "Everytime I ride by, she like the way the jet black Caddilac shine, make her say Oh My..." 2 Pioneer 12"s Pioneer Amp Pioneer Headunit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.NeT Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 (edited) Are you near that PC now? If so. open up the side of it. then turn it on. and try and see if the hdd makes a humm or vibrates or something If so then we are in luck and we can recover your data. if you don't know for sure we can still try. btw i have had problems where i turn my pc on and its just a black screen when i thought it was the hdd it wasn't and it really was just the power supply. so your hdd might not be the problem but i am 8 0 % sure from how you explain it that your hdd crashed. Edited December 28, 2010 by .NeT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass4urface Posted December 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 Are you near that PC now? If so. open up the side of it. then turn it on. and try and see if the hdd makes a humm or vibrates or something If so then we are in luck and we can recover your data. if you don't know for sure we can still try. btw i have had problems where i turn my pc on and its just a black screen when i thought it was the hdd it wasn't and it really was just the power supply. so your hdd might not be the problem but i am 8 0 % sure from how you explain it that your hdd crashed. I don't hear or feel any violent humming or vibrating that isn't normal. The only thing that is humming is the fan. Quote "Everytime I ride by, she like the way the jet black Caddilac shine, make her say Oh My..." 2 Pioneer 12"s Pioneer Amp Pioneer Headunit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.NeT Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 Ok, Well we will give it a try. First thing you will need to do is burn a disk with a "live" linux OS. (as long as the hdd that crashed originally had your OS on it) Then stick that disk in. let it launch up. then you can mount and browse the "crashed" hdd and copy files from it to another drive or storage area. Hopefully you can burn a disk. If not then your trying to stump me. (there's always more than one way to skin a cat) No, Guarantee's that this will work. but, this is the cheapest,fastest way. Let me know if you need help with anything else and if it worked or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass4urface Posted December 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 (edited) Ok, Well we will give it a try. First thing you will need to do is burn a disk with a "live" linux OS. (as long as the hdd that crashed originally had your OS on it) Then stick that disk in. let it launch up. then you can mount and browse the "crashed" hdd and copy files from it to another drive or storage area. Hopefully you can burn a disk. If not then your trying to stump me. (there's always more than one way to skin a cat) No, Guarantee's that this will work. but, this is the cheapest,fastest way. Let me know if you need help with anything else and if it worked or not. Do I just download linux OS from here: http://www.livecdlist.com/pclinuxos and burn it to a disk? Then put it in the computer? I have an external hard drive, would I just hook it up via USB and transfer all the files that I want to there? Edited December 28, 2010 by bass4urface Quote "Everytime I ride by, she like the way the jet black Caddilac shine, make her say Oh My..." 2 Pioneer 12"s Pioneer Amp Pioneer Headunit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.NeT Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 (edited) Ok, Well we will give it a try. First thing you will need to do is burn a disk with a "live" linux OS. (as long as the hdd that crashed originally had your OS on it) Then stick that disk in. let it launch up. then you can mount and browse the "crashed" hdd and copy files from it to another drive or storage area. Hopefully you can burn a disk. If not then your trying to stump me. (there's always more than one way to skin a cat) No, Guarantee's that this will work. but, this is the cheapest,fastest way. Let me know if you need help with anything else and if it worked or not. Do I just download linux OS from here: http://www.livecdlist.com/pclinuxos and burn it to a disk? Then put it in the computer? I have an external hard drive, would I just hook it up via USB and transfer all the files that I want to there? Any "LIVE" OS should work. Meaning No INSTALLATION to the computer. you simply put the cd in and the OS loads. From there Yes you would put the disk into your pc. and then navigate to your "crashed" hdd(since you said your a computer noob I expect you will know how to do this). plug in your external hdd (with your usb port) then you will be able to transfer your files to your external hdd(drag and drop/Copy and paste) (sorry I am not the best direction giver ever but if you have more questions feel free to ask.) Edited December 28, 2010 by .NeT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass4urface Posted December 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 Ok, Well we will give it a try. First thing you will need to do is burn a disk with a "live" linux OS. (as long as the hdd that crashed originally had your OS on it) Then stick that disk in. let it launch up. then you can mount and browse the "crashed" hdd and copy files from it to another drive or storage area. Hopefully you can burn a disk. If not then your trying to stump me. (there's always more than one way to skin a cat) No, Guarantee's that this will work. but, this is the cheapest,fastest way. Let me know if you need help with anything else and if it worked or not. Do I just download linux OS from here: http://www.livecdlist.com/pclinuxos and burn it to a disk? Then put it in the computer? I have an external hard drive, would I just hook it up via USB and transfer all the files that I want to there? Any "LIVE" OS should work. Meaning No INSTALLATION to the computer. you simply put the cd in and the OS loads. From there Yes you would put the disk into your pc. and then navigate to your "crashed" hdd(since you said your a computer noob I expect you will know how to do this). plug in your external hdd (with your usb port) then you will be able to transfer your files to your external hdd(drag and drop/Copy and paste) (sorry I am not the best direction giver ever but if you have more questions feel free to ask.) You're doing a fine job. I just feel terrible for being so clueless. So, should I download from the link I sent you, and burn it to a disk? Or is there something I should buy? I'm so sorry, I'm just a dirty window and I need more Windex if you get where I'm coming from. I just don't want to download something that's unnessecary. Thank you so much for all the help. Quote "Everytime I ride by, she like the way the jet black Caddilac shine, make her say Oh My..." 2 Pioneer 12"s Pioneer Amp Pioneer Headunit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.NeT Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 I may be a "noob" to sound systems but Computer use to be my life. had my own since i was 4 xD was a huge gamer. then learned much more about computers and stopped gaming. recently i just stopped gaming and got interested in sound systems instead of computers anyway. Don't thank my yet not until the job is done. hmm. i was going to d/l one of thoes of the link you sent but then realized that I don't currently have any burning software on my pc (hmmphh how did that happen. I always have one.) You should not "have" to buy anything. No need to be sorry either. Questions help us learn. You can use one of the ones from that link or you can use http://www.linuxmint.com/download.html that one. or you can get ubuntu. there are plenty of choices. I would recommend that you get a live cd for an OS that has a "desktop" so you can see what your doing instead of just sending it commands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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