I really need a nickel’s worth of free advice. My hard drive on my PC will not boot up. I’m pretty sure the system files are bad, and there is a lot of work on there that is very valuable and I need to save it.
I’m pretty sure the operating system is Windows XP. I don’t have the original system disk but I do have access to other computers.
From my DOS days I remember a command that went like this C:format a:/s
That command would make a disk bootable. I’m thinking is I had such a disk with the 2 system files on it I could restart my computer with that, then see about backing up crucial data and Hard Drive replacement or other things.
While that work on today’s computers? Is there a similar command to make a “boot disk”?
Thanks in advance
Kyle Engelmann
I’m pretty sure the operating system is Windows XP. I don’t have the original system disk but I do have access to other computers.
From my DOS days I remember a command that went like this C:format a:/s
That command would make a disk bootable. I’m thinking is I had such a disk with the 2 system files on it I could restart my computer with that, then see about backing up crucial data and Hard Drive replacement or other things.
While that work on today’s computers? Is there a similar command to make a “boot disk”?
Thanks in advance
Kyle Engelmann