On Oct 18, 11:58*am, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Oct 18, 9:18 am, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:



Thanks for all the replies especially Weatherlawyer, you must have
spent some time typing that lot.

1. No it won't boot into Safe Mode, starts scrolling through files and
gets to about the 10th in the list as it scrolls through, .confg one I
think, and stops a that point.

I bought a Hard Drive Docking Station from Maplins and have
successfully salvaged all my data from the SATA disk. I think the disc
is fine so it must be the boot sector that's corrupted. I can try a
few things now without worrying about losing data, although I may just
buy another SATA drive in the morning and start again, as there's
alwaya something you forget that was on the disk! It's needed a
refresh for sometime as it's been getting slower over time and I've
had some near misses over the last few months, so maybe my luck had
ran out!

Best regards


Keith (Southend)