OK, here's my problem. I've seen others that are similar but not exactly what I'm experiencing.
Here are my system specs.
Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit)
Emachines M6809 (laptop)
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
2GB Ram
160GB HD
I've had this laptop for about 5 years. Its always been a workhorse and was marketed as a desktop replacement. Wasn't designed for Windows 7 but runs great through benchmarks, and scores a 3.9 on Windows Experience Index where my wifes 2 year old Dell laptop scores a 3.1 on Windows Ultimate.
So here's my problem. I work with Adobe Photoshop CS4, Dreamweaver, Premeir Pro video editing), etc. Not the fastest machine but it does the job quite well. I had some previous work that I had completed and saved to an external USB drive (Seagate FreeAgent Pro). It was an 8GB set of files that I used WinRar to compress down to just under 6GB. The compression took awhile but completed fine.
When it was done I started to move the 6GB zip file from the external drive to my laptop. Everything started out fine and ran for about 3-5 minutes. Suddenly I noticed that the screen flickered then all of my desktop icons went away. The desktop background stayed on for about 10-15 secs then it BSOD. Started writing to the dump files then crashed and rebooted. After that is says No Operating System Found....
I have tried using the Windows 7 install disk to repair but it says it can't be repaired.
This very same issue happened to my wifes Dell about 5-6 months ago when transfering a folder with a bunch of pictures in it (about 2GB). I had to do a complete reinstall of Windows 7 Ultimate on her machine. I really want to avoid that experience again.
Please help! What can I do now? I have important files that I want to recover from that drive.
Thanks in advance!!!
(I tried fixboot, fixmbr, from the command promt in the repair console - still no luck)
Here are my system specs.
Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit)
Emachines M6809 (laptop)
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
2GB Ram
160GB HD
I've had this laptop for about 5 years. Its always been a workhorse and was marketed as a desktop replacement. Wasn't designed for Windows 7 but runs great through benchmarks, and scores a 3.9 on Windows Experience Index where my wifes 2 year old Dell laptop scores a 3.1 on Windows Ultimate.
So here's my problem. I work with Adobe Photoshop CS4, Dreamweaver, Premeir Pro video editing), etc. Not the fastest machine but it does the job quite well. I had some previous work that I had completed and saved to an external USB drive (Seagate FreeAgent Pro). It was an 8GB set of files that I used WinRar to compress down to just under 6GB. The compression took awhile but completed fine.
When it was done I started to move the 6GB zip file from the external drive to my laptop. Everything started out fine and ran for about 3-5 minutes. Suddenly I noticed that the screen flickered then all of my desktop icons went away. The desktop background stayed on for about 10-15 secs then it BSOD. Started writing to the dump files then crashed and rebooted. After that is says No Operating System Found....
I have tried using the Windows 7 install disk to repair but it says it can't be repaired.
This very same issue happened to my wifes Dell about 5-6 months ago when transfering a folder with a bunch of pictures in it (about 2GB). I had to do a complete reinstall of Windows 7 Ultimate on her machine. I really want to avoid that experience again.
Please help! What can I do now? I have important files that I want to recover from that drive.
Thanks in advance!!!
(I tried fixboot, fixmbr, from the command promt in the repair console - still no luck)
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