I have an acer 5100-5674 with windows vista home premium on it. It recently had a disk controller go out on it and I cannot locate my recovery disk. How do I get it to boot to a place where I can get to my files and back them up so that I can re-install the os. It won't even boot to safe mode. If I go into the bios it is telling it to boot up to the x: drive. My files are still there but I am more familiar with xp than vista. can you help?
Borrow a Vista DVD. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10
... laptop I believe? ... 64 bit?
... does this apply to you?:
"you have no way of accessing the repair center. There is an upload copy of a CD that contains the contents of the "Repair your computer" only section of the Windows Vista DVD."
... are you familiar with torrents?
Grrrr
"...pentathol makes you sing like a canary"
... got brain freeze
I found a website to download a torrent and an image burner for iso files. I then downloaded a program for a recovery disk. The first one I downloaded was for a 64 bit windows vista recovery disk, it didn't work. Then I downloaded the other one for a 32 bit recovery disk. I tried it and it came to the same screen that comes up when it is trying to fix itself. I am not familiar with Vista. When I was in school I learned to work with XP, so it amazes me that I am having such a hard time finding the correct way to fix this stupid program so that I can pull off my files and then wipe the hard drive and put Linux on it. I have about 8G of music on the hard drive and some of it is irreplaceable.
... USB 2.5" Laptop Hard Drive Cases, Laptop Hard Drive Caddy's. Laptop Hard Drive Enclosures are worth having. ... you can hook up to your friends desktop/laptop retrieve your files for a few bucks.
Grrrr
"...pentathol makes you sing like a canary"
... got brain freeze
I know that the problem lies with the disk controller not working. That is in the bios, but I can't even get to safe mode.
"...I know that the problem lies with the disk controller..." ... can you enter "safe mode with command prompt" ?
Grrrr
"...pentathol makes you sing like a canary"
... got brain freeze
