Two blue screen crashes

[High1]

Hello Dave

I have started up the Reatogo disk again.

I can double-click on My Computer and see Shared Douments. The Shared Music/Video/Pictures folders inside there are all empty.

Drives C has become, in Raetogo, a 'Removable Disk and if I click on it it asks me to install a disk into drive C.

There is a drive, drive B (I never had a drive B) called RAMDisk and if I double click on that I can see three folders: bin, which is empty, Documents and Settings, which contains two folders - All Users and Default User. These contain other folders but there is nothing in them. For example, if I click on the folder called Desktop or Accessories, they are empty. The other folder, Logs, contains two log files which don't seem relevant. For example, the setupapi.log refer to the platform as Windows NT.

None of these files or folders seem relevant. I am afraid I just have to resign myself to the fact that the CD, and tools on it, cannot 'see' my hard drive or communicate with it - presumably because it is defunct.

Thanks again for your encouragement and assistance.

[SuperDave]

It's looking more and more like there is a problem with the harddrive. Did you open the case and check the connections to the hard drive?

[High1]

I haven't Dave, no.

I probably should have done but I have just ordered a new hard drive!

[patio]

The RAMdisk is what's created by the boot CD...
Suprised it lebeled itself "B" though...never seen that.

One other thing you can try to see if you can retrieve any data is hook the drive up as a slave in a working desktop PC and see if it's recognised at all.

[High1]

Wouldn't I need a PC that was exactly compatible with my own? Another Packard Bell, for instance, that accepted a SATA disk 7200RPM, etc?

[patio]

No...it'll work in any PC with a SATA slot...hook it up to SATA 3 or higher slot on the MBoard so it sees it as slave.