Recovering Data from hard drive.

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derekc5475

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Hi,

My current windows begins to startup repair itself whenever it opens and stays in the perpetual cycle. I left it on overnight and nothing changed.

Safe mode does not load as it just gets stuck at the loading screen.

If I transfer the hard drive to my second computer, can I boot with my normal hard drive then access files on this broken one?

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popatim
yes as long as the drive isnt the one having the problem; though you may need to go into disk management (run diskmgmt.msc) to give the drive a drive letter

And you will likely need to take ownership of the folders/files in question.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff404240.aspx
add 'Take Ownership' to the Rt click menu: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/
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yes as long as the drive isnt the one having the problem; though you may need to go into disk management (run diskmgmt.msc) to give the drive a drive letter

And you will likely need to take ownership of the folders/files in question.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff404240.aspx
add 'Take Ownership' to the Rt click menu: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/
 
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