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Getting computer to turn on and retrieving old photos from a damaged computer that's in a fire but not burnt the smoke damage has been cleaned up it is a Compaq Presario 5000
Hopefully our Computer Guru Larry Ng will be along soon.
As long as it wasn't oven hot, there should not be that much wrong with it. I have a couple of suggestions.
1. Take the hard drive out and put it into a powered external hard drive enclose that is compatible with your hard drive. Easiest solution, and your old computer SERIOUSLY needs upgrading. Then your Hard Drive contents will be visible on the computer you connect the USB lead to as a separate volume. You will have C:\ with the operating system on, D:\ will be the Optical DVD Drive and E:\ will be the contents of the Compaq.
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2. XP is old and a Virus Magnet. You may be able to buy a Windows 7, possibly Win 8 upgrade CD, but usually you need the media disc for the OS already on the computer. Or you can buy a full version, which will allow you to upgrade anything.
3. One more thing you can try is tapping F8 as the computer is booting and see if you can see 'Start Computer with last known best Configuration.
4. Or you can take it to a local Independent computer shop and ask them to recover all your data from the hard drive to USB Memory Stick
As I said, just suggestion until Larry gets here. I am a minor Expert compared to him.
How to fix 1780 disk 0 failure
bad hdd.
- buy a new hdd.
- buy upgrade to SSD
- buy it in a PC store like Bestbuy
- buy it at ebay , amazon or 1000s of online stores (googled)
- the reload the OS.
- or have a shop fix your PC and avoid all this , work.
How do you do a hard reset on a Compaq Presario cq50-130us I've tried the F11 thing and it didn't work
the word reset means zero,
my guess you want to reload windows not told from scratch>?
XP OS, is infected Im sure.
lost the install disk?
now F11 recover facts.
- HDD not bad, or F11 is dead for ever. and ever.
- HDD not upgraded or F11 image is gone for ever.
- OS not upgraded and the Image is there for XP but is useles
Most these PCs have bad batteries and HDD is bad.
most.
the cure is obvious. new COIN new HDD. new OS.
or test the hDD first, ask. the dead coin battery can not be ignored.
or get the PC repaired in a real shop.
Does my computer have a video camera?
only some do,
it must show up in device manager.
does it?
no PC old, maker yes, compaq (hp.com)
no model told. and is and option then.
if missing a usb web cam is dirt cheap .
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