Hi,
I have an Acer Aspire PC with dual 500Gb hard drives. Recently the C: drive stopped responding and we received the black screen with mouse pointer but nothing more.
Having tried numerous attempts to correct this I decided to cut my losses and reinstall Vista however we had documents on the Desktop that were desperately needed so removed the HD and put it in another machine with the hope of copying the files.
Running DiskManager on it showed that the c: partition was not accesible, stating that permissions were corrupted. Putting the HD back into the original PC now gives a Disk Read error.
Booting from a Boot disc doesnt show the drive as existing.
It also turns out that I dont appear to have the original recovery disc so cant even reinstall.
This is turning into a nightmare.
I have an Acer Aspire PC with dual 500Gb hard drives. Recently the C: drive stopped responding and we received the black screen with mouse pointer but nothing more.
Having tried numerous attempts to correct this I decided to cut my losses and reinstall Vista however we had documents on the Desktop that were desperately needed so removed the HD and put it in another machine with the hope of copying the files.
Running DiskManager on it showed that the c: partition was not accesible, stating that permissions were corrupted. Putting the HD back into the original PC now gives a Disk Read error.
Booting from a Boot disc doesnt show the drive as existing.
It also turns out that I dont appear to have the original recovery disc so cant even reinstall.
This is turning into a nightmare.