Well, I can't access my harddrive, so is it possible if I could use command prompt to copy 1 file from my broken harddrive to a 8gb usb flash drive? If so, how would I do that? I have tried previously just messing about, but when it says what harddrive I want to view it only gives me C:\, even though I have my usb flash drive in... Do I need to go into Bios and do something so the computer recognises it? I'm not sure of how to do any of this, I just heard that DOS could help if you can't access your harddrive. Thanks.

easy way is to chuck broken drive in to a caddyif you have a laptop or as a second drive if it a tower what make you say your drive broken

Hello, Are you using the computer in question? If you are then your hard drive is there and apparently ok. You might try going into your display properties in control panel and check to see if your computer is set to be shown on the desktop. Even if it's not you can right click on almost anything and select explore and it will take you to that point on your hard drive, then you can navigate from there. Hope that might be some help. But if you need to copy your file you need to know where it is and enter the path such as c:\filename copy E:\ or whatever letter your flash drive is. Larry

First thing is to be clear what d: and e: were. Were they partitions on drive1 or are they partitions on drive2? Do you have two physical drives? I assume this is a laptop and as such its rare to have two physical drives. Until we are clear as to what you have there is no advice that can be given. Example of Oxymoron: Person who is pro life and anti sex education. Education is key to prevention. Prevent conception you prevent abortion. Abstinence training clearly isn't working.

Ok, I'm now using a new harddrive to access my computer now. However, I have a broken SATA harddrive, and a usb 8gb flash drive. I can simply plug in my broken harddrive and I can access the bios and the windows cd (thus being able to gt onto command prompt). And I want to know how I can find a file on my broken harddrive and copy it to my USB flashdrive with command prompt. And also, I'm using a desktop computer. "First thing is to be clear what d: and e: were. Were they partitions on drive1 or are they partitions on drive2? Do you have two physical drives? I assume this is a laptop and as such its rare to have two physical drives." I don't have a d: and e:. I have 1 physical drive in right now, which is the one that works ok. And I've got the other one which is the broken one. But I can just plug it in and it would go straight to C:. And I have my flashdrive.

Firstly, what happened that your windows os stopped loading in the first place? Do you know where the file was located? You'll need an external adapter (Sata and IDE Adapter) that will allow you to connect your sata drive to your computer using the USB port. Assuming the file structure is still in place, the drive will obtain a drive letter when connected. You can then browse to the location of the file (or search for it) and copy it from the old drive to the functioning one. "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

It just because really sluggish, then it started to restart a lot, and now I can't even access Windows. The file is located in My Pictures. So can I not just hook up my broken harddrive, plug in my USB and just switch the file from the harddrive to the usb flashdrive?