https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-aboutHiMy laptop is refusing to boot up, having been fine yesterday.Basically it goes through the POST sequence then just get a black screen with a cursor and nothing else.I have run the diagnostics in the repair function and found nothing, it wont allowhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-about?post_id=453544313#453544313A USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE cable would probably be easiest way to recover your data off a hard disk. Just remove HDD, connect up and plug into USB drive on any other PC. Your HDD is then just an external drive. Get one with a power supply as some drives nFri, 25 Jun 2010 01:06:47 -0500https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-about?post_id=453497673#453497673thanks for that cornubia, ill try and do that in the morning (i have another pc that i can download the linux on (screen is fine btw)vardon, not sure i would be able to save it anywhere (unless theres a way in the dos prompt)Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:56:15 -0500https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-about?post_id=453488929#453488929You can get your data back with a bootable CD using Linux.Instructions here:http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,1918259,00.aspNeed a friend's PC to download the bootable Linux and burn the ISO download image to a CD which you place in driThu, 24 Jun 2010 15:52:55 -0500https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-about?post_id=453466949#453466949Can you load a driver onto a memory stick from another computer with the version of Windows and then simply save it to the correct location somehow , replacing the corrupted one?Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:22:27 -0500https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-about?post_id=453453553#453453553have tried every recommendation in the threads that I understood and none have workedis there a way to access and save the files on the hard drive (maybe by putting it into another machine?)Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:48:28 -0500https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-about?post_id=453443429#453443429i think you may overestimate my pc ability escapee thanks for helping and if you can help more later, would be gratefully received, for now will keep reading thru the threads that were posted earlierThu, 24 Jun 2010 10:42:10 -0500https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-about?post_id=453442285#453442285I've gotta go out for a few hours so I won't be able to walk you through this now....I have had a very similar problem and basically you have to replace the video driver from either a cd which may ( or probably didn't ) come with the cThu, 24 Jun 2010 10:35:10 -0500https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-about?post_id=453440549#453440549when i use f8 as trying to boot, the menu of options i get includes a "repair" option (as well as various safe mode options). if i go into this then i can get into another menu of which one of the options is system restorei have now managed to get aThu, 24 Jun 2010 10:21:22 -0500https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-about?post_id=453439861#453439861how did you run a system restore if you can't get to a command line prompt ?( its unlikely that a system restore will solve a corrupted video driver problem but if you can run a restore you should be able to do a few other things on it )Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:15:19 -0500https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/25132501/any-computer-experts-about?post_id=453439361#453439361i have managed to run the system restore but it says no restore point availableIts vista home premium 32 bitThu, 24 Jun 2010 10:11:20 -0500