imported_KuJaX
Platinum Member
I just hit CTRL+P to print a document and a little alert window came up saying that something had failed reading/writing to c:\documents and settings\........ (dont remember the path) and the computer froze. I couldn't do a single thing but hit the power button. When I restarted the computer, I get a simple error saying "Error loading operating system". I have checked the BIOS and the hard drive is still detected.
After doing some Google searches, most people ran into this error after installing Windows. I didn't, I have had Windows installed for years. It also said to try changing the hard drive access to LARGE instead of AUTO in the bios, of which didn't fix anything for me.
I figured it had to do with the MBR, but before I started playing with that (in fear it may format or screw all my data), I took the hard drive out, put in another system, booted up Windows from its primary hard drive and double clicked on my "error loading operating system" hard drive via My Computer and it says "The disk in drive E is not formatted, do you want to format now?".
Any idea's, suggestions? I would like to keep my data the way it was on the hard drive, or at the very worst, be able to get in via some program in DOS or linux based that will allow me to copy a few directories which have important data.
After doing some Google searches, most people ran into this error after installing Windows. I didn't, I have had Windows installed for years. It also said to try changing the hard drive access to LARGE instead of AUTO in the bios, of which didn't fix anything for me.
I figured it had to do with the MBR, but before I started playing with that (in fear it may format or screw all my data), I took the hard drive out, put in another system, booted up Windows from its primary hard drive and double clicked on my "error loading operating system" hard drive via My Computer and it says "The disk in drive E is not formatted, do you want to format now?".
Any idea's, suggestions? I would like to keep my data the way it was on the hard drive, or at the very worst, be able to get in via some program in DOS or linux based that will allow me to copy a few directories which have important data.
