(July 31, 2014 at 3:32 am)ignoramus Wrote:(July 31, 2014 at 2:36 am)Minimalist Wrote: Interesting....but there have been no power problems lately.
The second part refers to your situation.
Unless you know for a fact that your hd was developing errors, it's not uncommon for the incorrectly configured bios to stop you from booting. Also, many boot errors can be fixed by booting off the windows dvd and asking it to fix dodgy partitions.
If it can find the windows folder on the disk, it'll rewrite a new entry in the hard disk's boot sector.
It caused me to run "Start Up Repair" for a grand total of about 11 hours.
It did nothing except waste time.
When I put the new disk in after fixing the boot order it loaded up instantly.
I've got to see if I can find a converter today to turn my old SATA drive into a usb drive. See if I can extract any data that way.
