Well, here we are again, a few months after my computer went kaflooie....if ya all remember, my windows got corrupted and Staples wanted $195.00 minimum to TRY to get my windows back up and operating.....

so, I went and bought a new computer, but I have realized over the last couple of months that I really do have some files in the old computer that I really do not want to lose. If my windows program wouldn't open and was corrupted, is the hard drive still viable and could my poetry files be retrieved by those hard drive back up systems I see for sale everywhere or won't that work because even if I do plug in the old computer, it won't start up because of the windows issue..... what I mean to say here is can those hard drive retrieval thingies still work without windows having to start up????

This post has been edited by compudodo: Jun 4 2009, 04:13 PM

holy moly........ i'm trying to breathe...... well......well. ummmm. ok....... this will take maybe 10 more times reading this over and over and over again, alot of courage and alot of time ........ I'll have to seriously sit down with all of this and decide if a total 60 year old computer moron can make heads or tails of this..... thank you so much for your time and your expertise and I'll get back to you when I have fully digested and hopefully been able to do all of this. you were very kind and as always i am in awe that there are people such as you with such smarts and generosity of heart. brightest blessings.