Computer problem, old tower, blue screen, big mess! Will give best answer!?

Question

Ok, a bit of a long story; please bear with me...

We have this computer tower that someone rebuilt for us a few years back. Stopped using it for a couple of years, then just started using it for microsoft word and stuff like that. (Not internet) Well, it started doing this thing that whenever we turned it off and then tried to turn it back on it would get this continuous glowing orange light and wouldn't turn on. The button would have to be held down or the computer unplugged for the light to shut off. If we played with it for a little bit and turned button off and on and unplugged it a bunch, it would eventually turn on. Well, when we moved, it obviously got unplugged and now it WILL NOT turn on at all. So, I decided to take the hard drive out and put it into another computer tower we have and try to get my files off of it. When I did that, I got the 'blue screen of death'. So what's the problem here and how do I fix it? I don't even want to use the computer, I just want to get my pictures and important documents off of it? I researched the orange light and read that that might be a sign of a bad power supply? Which is why I put the hard drive into another computer, but then I got the blue screen, so it must not be the power supply. So what's the problem here? Please help me figure out how to get my files off of it! Do I need to just send the hard drive somewhere or can I (preferably) do it myself?

Answer 1

There is also a device you can buy, which is pretty inexpensive, that allows you take your hard drive, connect it to this device, and then plug it into the USB port of another computer.This does require you to remove your hard drive from its current computer, but you have already done that.

What happens is that the computer you plugged it into, treats it as a slave drive. That means that it doesn’t need to access the operating system, so you should be able to transfer over your files from the failing hard drive. The defunct hard drive shows up as an external USB drive in Window’s Explorer so you can simply drag and drop from it. I have used one of these many times. What I have found is that as long as the platters spin, I’m able to recover the data.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvom7l-jcKE



Thx Andrew Langton

Answer 2

Emachines has been usual to apply defective hardware to diminish fees. I had an emachines for 5 years nonetheless earlier my ability furnish merely stoped working, in case you purchased the pc a month in the past you're probable nevertheless decrease than guarantee so which you will probable deliver it in to have some hardware replaced

Answer 3

if i read you right then no wonder.

you CAN move a hard drive into A N Other pc as a 2nd drive

but NOT as the main drive cos it will be looking

and trying to run all the old hardware that aint there.......nice try.



sometimes BSOD's are also caused by incompatibilities so all in all

i suggest you use a caddy see below



as a 2nd drive it should work ok, but if its formatted NTFS with security

then the old USERNAME will OWN the files, and you may have

to take OWNERSHIP to open them, which is easy enough.



you could also put the drive into an external usb caddy, or dock station.



happy days.

Answer 4

Install your hard drive into the other computer as a secondary or slave drive (different [assuming] IDE port). With both drives install in the computer boot into the drive that came with the new computer and you should be able to access both drives in windows explorer. Start copying your stuff over from there.

Answer 5

Estoy muy apasionada de este mundo y todos mis amigos han confiado en mí a la hora de comprar un ordenador, yo siempre les he comprado de sitios web porque tienen la mejor oferta al mejor precio, pero, el ultimo ordenador que he comprado ha sido uno de juguete para mi hija, y como siempre he acertado, tiene la dimensión perfecta para ella, buenas canciones, aprende con él y imita muy bien un ordenador portátil con su ratón con todo, a ella le ha encantado muchísimo.