Recent content by jay69

Thanks for this suggestion. When i put the physical disk HD in the dell it won't post because of the HD fail. If I boot from a linux cd it may boot without a HD in the dell case and I will see if it helps to boot linux cd from there and then drop the HD in ? I have never used linux so there is...

Well, my nephew dropped his laptop with win 7 (Dell) and their software/recovery stuff is cr*p (you don't get an actual windows disk when you buy the product - thanks Dell!) and it won't boot so I tried to help him recover gigs of music etc from the "bad disk". Using win 8.1 I was able to buy...