Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Boot-up Trouble

  • 01-12-2005 9:20pm
    #1
    younglynch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi all,

    Headed into college this morning, powered up the laptop and got a "missing operating system" message after about 30 seconds and a constant clicking noise from the hard disk.

    I took it to the IT Dept, and they said it's likely to be a hard disk drive failure and to take it to a repair/service centre (at a cost of 100eur/hour i'm told!). However when I arrived home this evening, I ran "emovix" - a bootable linux based media player from CD-ROM and it successfully played music and video files from my hard disk... confusing or what!

    If anyone can direct me to a program that can be booted from CD and will allow me to copy files to a external hard-disk, I'd really appreciate it. I'll not have access to my Windows CD until next week, but in the meantime I want to back-up as much as I can until then ASAP, in case the hard-drive is about to fail completly!

    Anyone with similar experiences or explanations, comments welcome!

    Thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    Knoppix or Ubuntu LiveCD -> Linux distro's that boot from CD..

    After data is backed up - try SpinRite (Commercial/Paid for software..ahem).


Advertisement