My computer crashed yesterday, and when i tried to restart it. It said " Please insert boot device or restart and select proper boot device"
i followed the Advice on here to Change my BIOS so it will try boot from disk drive with my windows cd. It wont initiate anything from there.
I would try to post my computer specs but i cannot Check them.
all i know from heart is it is a Pentium 4 processor running windows xp
i was told by a friend that the computer is Fubar'd and nothing i can do about it and to switch out my HD in that computer for a brand new HD so i can still play World of Warcraft. and that i have lost all of my data. but would that cause any problems?

Edited by jdd565 on 09-26-07 03:11 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

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Hang on jdd565. I think your data is still on the drive. I would recommend you to connect the hard drive as a slave to another healthy system and run a Data Recovery Software. One thing to remember here is that, if your drive is not being detected as a slave then, no data recovery software can help you. In such case Data Recovery Services can help your get back your data but are very expensive.

Try your luck.

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