Hi guys,
My old PC one day started sounding like it was powering, but remained black. Deffo wasn't monitor, and sometimes, the screen would activate, but not for long. Maybe because I had to power down lots of times, think I screwed something up cos there were some error messages when the screen rarely did activate.
It doesn't come on at all now, but I have accepted there must be a faulty component in my PC.
Anyways.. since then, I am using a new PC, and have my old hard drive a slave, which works great, and I have been able to access all my old files.
However...when I try to run my old drive as the master (or the lone drive), it gives me the option to run in safe or start windows normally etc, but then whatever I choose, it really quickly flashes up an error message, and then reboots itself.
All I can manage to snatch of the message is something like "A problem has been detected...windows...has been shut down...."
I don't know much but I am just guessing that windows has been corrupted? Does that mean I have to re-install it? (Windows XP). I do have the boot disks, but does it mean I would lose all the files I have on there?
Please correct me if I am totally wrong on this!!
As a side issue, am I able to retreive emails from Outlook Express on the old drive even when I am using it as a slave?
Many thanks for any replies posted,
Kop442000.