My Dell has XP media center edition. Here's the problem. The other day, my girl was on the computer and stepped on the surge protector by mistake and shut it off. Now the darn thing won't boot up. It gets stuck on the windows loading screen where the bars go back and forth on the screen.
It won't boot at all. Safe mode does not work, last known config does not work, and booting up normally doesn't work either. I hope someone has some ideas as to what to try to repair it. I don't have a cd. All I can do is restore to factory settings but then all of my music and pictures will be gone. I hope someone can help me get it to boot up.
I also tried putting the hard drive into another computer so I could at least back it up, but I can't get the computer to recognize the hard drive.
It has 2 gigs of memory, USB wireless Dell mouse and keyboard, and the hard drive is SATA.
I also tried putting another IDE hard drive into that machine and booted up to that but it still wouldn't see the SATA hard drive. I really don't want to lose everything. Help please...