Posted: October/30/2007 at 05:54 | IP Logged

Hi there,

My laptop came up with a blue screen and unable to start windows due to an error. All this was after a storm lightening. I tried loading the windows CD but it won’t work. I put a new hard drive in and windows installed. What can I do? I have a good surge protector may be it is improper computer shut down that messed the hard drive up?

Is it fixable? Hooking it up as a secondary would it let me get some files off?

Posted: November/02/2007 at 07:21 | IP Logged

Hello Nelson,

Your hard drive seems to be damaged due to lightning. The best method is to connect your old hard drive to your computer as a "slave" or "secondary" hard drive. This can be done by switching the jumper which will adjust the settings. If the drive is accessible backup your data, if its not, then I think you need to take help from Data Recovery Services.

Salvager.

Posted: November/02/2007 at 07:26 | IP Logged

It's definately worth hooking up the drive as a slave to see. Let me try my luck.

Thanks for the suggestions Salvager.

Nelson.