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re: Windows won't boot, so how do I copy important data onto my USB HD???
Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 8:01 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11775 messages posted)
Steve O
You're best off to slave the HD on mates PC or if you have a 2nd PC.
Windows needs to load up the USB port(s) and that's the hanger with a USB ext.HD.
You can also use a Laptop/desktop PC with more than two USB ports (i.e. PCMCIA card
with 4 usb ports for 32.oobucks) and two ext.box that you can get for 23.oo bucks
ea.
I have 4 of them and they work great for this kind of job.
Moving files from one HD to a backup/spare HD.
You can get backup/spare HD's off e.a.b.y. like a lot of 5 for 5.oo bucks plus shipping
of 10.oo bucks.
(most will be older types 3gb to 20gb) take outs.
If you need the links to the items let me know and I will post them.
Have a good weekend.
Just a note: Don't use cd or dvd disks for backups all the files will be come read
only files once you put them on a disk..
On Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 3:11 am, Steve O wrote:
>Hello all
>
>My Windows 2000 freezes constantly. I would like to format the HD's BUT first off,
>I want to save my precious 20000+ mp3s that I've accumulated over the past 10 years.
>I want to move them from my C: drive to my removable USB HD. The problem is, I cannot
>log into Windows at all.
>
>I've tried using Linux Live CD's, but they do not support NTFS, meaning my computer
>will run perfectly fine using Linux OS's BUT I cannot move or copy files
from
>one HD to another (Read Only attributes)...
>
>I am looking for a prog that can run through floppy or cd rom at startup that will
>allow me to move about 60 GB of data from my C: to my USB drive, so that I can eventually
>reformat everything...
>
>any suggestions???
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