On Oct 17, 9:54*pm, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:
I have a problem Houston!

I have a major problem with my main PC, which is fixable but don't
want to lose data.
Basically, it boots up as far as the 'start windows normally' screen
etc and won't go any further.
It's Serial ATA 80Gig Hard Drive (Has the connection from the SATA1
position on the Mother Board0 and is a connector about the same size
as a USB.
Problem is I have an Easy IDE adapter, which can be used to extract
data off a disk when Windows goes wrong, but of course this won't fit
into the SATA socket on the Disk.

Also if I put the XP disk in to do a repair, (Not repair console) when
I get to the disk/partition bit. 'R' Repair is not an option, so if I
hit Enter it will do a clean install and wipe everything from the
disk.

Any ideas?

Website updates down till further notice :-(

Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net

Will it open in safe mode Keith? If so you can run diagnostics or
run restore that's if it's a XP software problem? I assume this sat
drive had been working okay?

A friend of mine who used to make a living out of PC repairs would
probabably say reinstall XP on a new drive( they're certainly cheap
enough) and the use the current drive as a secondary device to then
enable you to retain all your data, only losing the xp software.