? for computer guys

[Gothmog]

My computer got fried at work after the hurricane, and I can't reboot. recovery disk doesn't work, safemode doesn't work- can't get beyond dos. It keeps stalling on recovery saying the VFATS device isn't working. I've been working on this for hours, any ideas?

TIA

 

[striker_29]

What operating system? Probably need to blow it away with fdisk, format it, and reinstall fresh.

 

[GHOUSE78]

hard to tell w/o testing everything but,
kinda sounds like you fried something, leaning toward the idea its your mobo.
it could be a couple of things though

 

[striker_29]

Yeah, I kinda misread that, forgive me I had a bit of surgery this morning and on some pain meds Board may be gone. Pull all cards but video out and try it.

 

[Gothmog]

Its windows 95
Its my work computer, so I'll try again monday. I really don't want to lose all my files though.

 

[rx4mike]

Got another Hard Drive?

Do you have another hard drive you can stick in the computer? Another question is do feel comfortable enough working on it? Because I can give you a hard drive with the Windows 95 installion files and instructions on how to get the computer up (if the Motherboard isn't fried) with the hard drive i send you (free...don't worry i got more computer crap lying around then I know what to do with) so that if your files are still there the will be accessable as the second/slave hard drive...Let me know

I do this stuff everyday for a school system. It keeps the GN running

Mike