08-24-2016, 05:41 PM
What do you mean by CPU? You mean your computer? The CPU is the processor (Central Processing Unit) and if that was fried you wouødn't get anywhere.
Sounds like a HDD problem, like you say. Open it up, take the HDD out, and put it in another machine. I'm sure you know to make sure the computers are powered OFF when doing this, but just in case...!
You should hopefully be able to get most if not all the info off it.
Now. Get a new HDD AND AN EXTERNAL BACKUP HDD. Back up regularly...
A great (free) solution is to put your backup disk at someone else's house (eg: your parents), then use CrashPlan to backup daily to that drive.
Or get office 365 and upload everything to OneDrive (1TB)
Sounds like a HDD problem, like you say. Open it up, take the HDD out, and put it in another machine. I'm sure you know to make sure the computers are powered OFF when doing this, but just in case...!
You should hopefully be able to get most if not all the info off it.
Now. Get a new HDD AND AN EXTERNAL BACKUP HDD. Back up regularly...
A great (free) solution is to put your backup disk at someone else's house (eg: your parents), then use CrashPlan to backup daily to that drive.
Or get office 365 and upload everything to OneDrive (1TB)
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