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by a former member

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I have one toshiba celeron laptop , the problem with the laptop when you start windows comes only the windows xp screen and it seems to be starting winxp but suddenly whole screen goes black
I tried to put restore cd on it but it asking me to rebuild rather than repair so that i can save all the Doc and Excel files that has been created in.
Is there any way where i can backup of all doc and excel data before reintall the win xp.

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by Former member

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by scott_heath

Since you can't boot Windows you would have to put the HD into another PC as a secondary drive and pull the data off. Lots of computer stores sell laptop adapters that allow you to connect a laptop HD to standard 40-pin IDE and 4-pin molex power connectors. You can also buy a USB External case that allows you to hook it up without cracking the case of another PC open.

You can also try builidng a Bart's PE boot CD and with the right drivers and a USB drive you should be able to get data off.

by tintoman

Scott is partly right although it not necessary to remove the hard drive from the laptop if you use a rescue disc such as norton ghost or similar.
If you dont mind taking a risk though you could try pressing the F8 key during startup and when the boot options appear you can choose the diable reboot on error option, that should invoke scandisc and might fix errors for you, beware though you might lose everything!!!

by scott_heath

Sorry, I guess I should have explained them the other way around! I did not mean to suggest it was necessary to remove the HD to use the CD, but that you could do that instead of removing the HD.

by Former member

Thanks a million scott, i will try to do same what you have said to me.

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