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Recent content by kingmaker

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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    Hi due to the hard drive being about to go bang,i remembered i had a customer who worked in IT Tech,so i managed to contact him and he will have a go for me. Seems like my best bet as I dont realy know what I am doing fully so may make things worse,but i did try to follow your good advice as...
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    Also is the only way to view the windows files in Linux is by clicking the drive icons bottom left sda1,sda2,sda3 as those are the only hard drive portions I have managed to mount and seem to mainly only contain driver type software for the hardware.
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    Hi the pictures are in documents,and they cannot be saved yesterday when i right click them or click file,it was a couple of monthes ago that the save option seemed to still work,to be honest i am not sure how to determine if they are full format,or if they are corrupted. Is linux not opening...
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    And yes I am fairly sure I am in my named document file and veiwng the actual photos and not a short cut
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    i loaded 3 parts to the hard drive mount sda1, ,2 and 3 Puppy is seeing the floppy drive,usb,optical drive and it just says drive,also i assume hard drive,sda1 sad2 sda3 about 180 files in total. the only files i can veiw are all the drivers dell put on,usb,keyboard,sound stuff with exe in...
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    i loaded 2 parts to the hard drive mount sd1, ,2 ,3 the only files i can veiw are all the drivers dell put on,usb,keyboard,sound stuff with exe in the tiltle,nothing to do with windows or any files saved on windows. I went into set up when booting i could not see any info on any hard drive...
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    I loaded the disc i could only see an option to boot from cd-rom however i pressed enter and not f10 does that matter? I got to the linux screen and mounted the hard drive and the usb drive ,there are only 78 files and they are all to do with the operating system. what do i do next?
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    I did have a back up but my wifes family are notoriously erratic,if you know what i mean
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    ok thank you hope i can manage to do this still not sure if i should send it somewhere proffessional or not
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    so is this better than taking the hard drive out and connecting it to another pc,or will both methods work? to be honest its a bit out my depth but i have burnt my puppy cd.I am worried the hard drive i am trying to get the images off will crash totaly any moment
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    he called the adapter a caddy
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    some one said put the hard drive in a sata adapter and connect to another pc,i have windows 10,by usb and then search the hard drive
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    i think the memory is degrading everytime i try
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    no that dont work although i think it was a couple of months ago last time i tried
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    Solved saving files in windows safe mode

    I have a very old desktop that i want to dump,it will only run in safe mode. I am attempting to save the photos on the hard drive,i can see them in documents and in google picasa. When i first looked at saving them i could right click and it gave me an option to save them,but i did not get...