Hard Drive Crashed

[Rover45]

Hi every one
My hard drive has crashed with all my holiday photo's on. The only way I can get the computer up and running again is to do a system format with the XP Pro disc, but by doing this I will loose all my photo's, it's only the photo's I want. So is there any one out there that can give my some advice on how to retrieve my photo's, like with software or any thing.

Thank's for your time

Rover45

[Steve R Jones]

Did your hard drive crash or did the pc crash?

You could purchase a new drive and install Windows on that... And then slave the old drive to see if you can access it.

[Rover45]

Hi Steve
I think it is a boot sector problem. Steve if I put this drive in an other computer do you think it would be possible to retrieve my photo's. The only thing is the operating system has crashed

Rover45

[Midknyte]

You could try putting the drive in another system. You could also boot off a live Linux disc like Ubuntu and see if you can copy the files over to another drive.

[Rover45]

Hi Midknyte

Thank you for your help. Please can you tell were I can get this disc

Thank you

Rover45

[Midknyte]

http://www.ubuntu.com/

[Rover45]

Thank you, I will try this and let you no how it goes

Rover45

[Rover45]

Hi Midknyte

I no luck UBUNTU I think my computer is too old, it's only a pentium 4 with a 4g hard drive

But thank you for you advice any way

Rover45