Micky Posted 30 June, 2012 Share Posted 30 June, 2012 I know that we have a few PC 'techies' on here - anybody help with this one? Vista HE. Have bought and downloaded Spotmau PowerSuite 2012 which claims to be able to 'boot any pc' - as yet it has failed with mine. Would appreciate any pointers please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weston Super Saint Posted 30 June, 2012 Share Posted 30 June, 2012 http://www.apple.com/uk/ Hope it helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 30 June, 2012 Share Posted 30 June, 2012 See if this gets you on the right path:- http://topzung.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/solve-the-problem-bootmgr-image-is-corrupt-the-system-cannot-boot/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 30 June, 2012 Share Posted 30 June, 2012 http://www.apple.com/uk/ Hope it helps To be fair, I've probably had more issues with my Macs than I ever did with my PCs. I wouldn't go back to PC, but it's just a fact. If I didn't have Apple Care I'd have been royally ****ed. I've had to have a hard drive replaced right in the middle of writing my dissertation, for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 30 June, 2012 Author Share Posted 30 June, 2012 Thanks pap - that's more or less where I started to be honest - but no luck. Cant get to the boot screen. Long story - but no Windows XP disc, No recovery discs (didn't realise I had to burn them myself - well stuffed now the PC has gone pete tong), can't get it to boot at all. HDD full of thousands of photos, large music collection and countless other documents and suchlike. Does anybody know of a good data recovery program or good data recovery firm and costs ...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted 30 June, 2012 Share Posted 30 June, 2012 Two things: One: It looks like you have access to another computer. You could try rigging the hard drive to the second computer (as a slave) to retrieve your data and save it onto a portable drive. Two: Dump Vista. Horrible piece of crap. The day after it came out a senior MS programmer advised someone I know not to upgrade to it. Windows 7 is what Vista should've been and is far, far better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparkySaint Posted 30 June, 2012 Share Posted 30 June, 2012 http://www.apple.com/uk/ Hope it helps All hail the beautiful one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 1 July, 2012 Share Posted 1 July, 2012 Thanks pap - that's more or less where I started to be honest - but no luck. Cant get to the boot screen. Long story - but no Windows XP disc, No recovery discs (didn't realise I had to burn them myself - well stuffed now the PC has gone pete tong), can't get it to boot at all. HDD full of thousands of photos, large music collection and countless other documents and suchlike. Does anybody know of a good data recovery program or good data recovery firm and costs ...? Your main problem here seems like the lack of discs. Try to borrow one. I've had the non-booting problem before. Ended up using the Windows disc to boot, barrelling into the command prompt and restoring the Master Boot Record ( there is a tool on the disc to allow you to do this ). Note: you almost certainly won't need to do a full restore - so you don't have to have the exact disc ( e.g. a special OEM version, etc ) - just needs to be bootable and contain the tools to restore the MBR. Failing all of that, I like the secondary drive solution if you have somewhere you can put the drive for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royce2uk Posted 1 July, 2012 Share Posted 1 July, 2012 I had the same problem before. Solved it by going to Carphone warehouse. Buying geek squad cover for £5 a month, waited 3 weeks and then took it in to be fixed. They sorted it all out and they were great. Best thing is you can cancel the contract after 3 months. I kept it on though as it has come in handy several times for several different laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Micky Posted 1 July, 2012 Author Share Posted 1 July, 2012 Thanks for the help so far people, still had no luck with it though. Does anybody know if this could be hardware related - pc seems to just freeze after about 3 - 4 mins no matter what I am trying to do? A long shot I know - but thats how it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 1 July, 2012 Author Share Posted 1 July, 2012 Two things: One: It looks like you have access to another computer. You could try rigging the hard drive to the second computer (as a slave) to retrieve your data and save it onto a portable drive. Two: Dump Vista. Horrible piece of crap. The day after it came out a senior MS programmer advised someone I know not to upgrade to it. Windows 7 is what Vista should've been and is far, far better. My 'other' computer is in fact my work laptop so couldn't rig it to my personal desktop pc. But acting on your advice I went and got my Father in laws pc and slaved my 'faulty' hdd to that - phew - found all my files in tact. I then unplugged my FIL's HDD which defaulted my 'faulty' drive to master and his pc booted off of my hdd - it did show a quick error - but booted into windows nontheless. I then took my FIL's drive out of his pc and installed it into mine - low and behold - it wouldn't boot. Didnt get the same error code - but it definately was heading that way. Ergo - it would appear that this is in fact a hardware problem. Have removed all of the cards, drives etc and given the machine a good cleaning - tried booting without the extra graphics and sound card and used different memory modules all to no effect. Can't suss it. Not really too bothered now - all I wanted was the data and I now know that I can get that. On the up side Mr Mickys only option is to be sanctioning the purchase of a new pc .....! Result I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 2 July, 2012 Share Posted 2 July, 2012 http://www.apple.com/uk/ Hope it helps http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintbletch Posted 2 July, 2012 Share Posted 2 July, 2012 My 'other' computer is in fact my work laptop so couldn't rig it to my personal desktop pc. But acting on your advice I went and got my Father in laws pc and slaved my 'faulty' hdd to that - phew - found all my files in tact. I then unplugged my FIL's HDD which defaulted my 'faulty' drive to master and his pc booted off of my hdd - it did show a quick error - but booted into windows nontheless. I then took my FIL's drive out of his pc and installed it into mine - low and behold - it wouldn't boot. Didnt get the same error code - but it definately was heading that way. Ergo - it would appear that this is in fact a hardware problem. Have removed all of the cards, drives etc and given the machine a good cleaning - tried booting without the extra graphics and sound card and used different memory modules all to no effect. Can't suss it. Not really too bothered now - all I wanted was the data and I now know that I can get that. On the up side Mr Mickys only option is to be sanctioning the purchase of a new pc .....! Result I guess. Yes it could be hardware related but It could also be that the settings in your BIOS are screwed. Especially if your disk had some form of complex driver configuration (RAID/SCSI) which has been lost. Although if it booted straight away on you FiL's machine then that suggests it must be pretty standard. It might be worth going into the BIOS setup and restoring the settings to factory conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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