ninjaman

i was told by the novatech help that i would have to reinstall windows which i dont want to have to do. is there a way i can change this without wiping the disc? i can get the f8 screen, its the maximum memory in the advanced boot option that i have to change, i think. could that have caused some damage to something or if reset should everything go back to normal? i dont have the caddy yet, i cant find the size of the harddrive any where. i have two hardrives i dont know what to do with two of them. should i connect them one to the other? so i would need two caddies

i contacted some on online at novatech and they helped me get back to the repair, or start windows normally. the start option goes to blue screen then restarts, the repair says cannot repair automatically. i can get advanced boot options from f8 anyone know where i can go from here

hello i think i have two hard drives, they are seagate, pr-hd506s 500gb and 6gb sata i have a desktop

no i dont have a disc, i was going to try a bootable usb ubuntu. i read about it on here. nothing seems to be working. i think somehow the hard drive has been removed from the software. it has two sata and a cd drive. the other option is to remove the hard drive and put it in a hard drive caddy attach it through sata connector and try that. though i have two lots of memory, two lots of 400GB. am i being daft in thinknig that these are two hard drives or are they just memory. im thinking they are just memory, if someone could just confirm that. also, without taking apart the computer, what size is the hard drive usually, is it a standard thing or do they come in different sizes. this is for the caddy. £4 including postage, not bad as i dont want to loose any of the stuff on my computer.

hello thanks for the reply and advice, but i have tried that and it doesnt work. i have tried different ways of using f8 and none work. i am looking at getting linux on bootable disc to find the things i want to keep and save them. though i dont know what i would save those things on. or removing the hard drive and trying that. could i remove the hard disc, put it in another computer and make changes that way? i dont know how i would get it working on the original pc again. any suggestions? thanks again, all the best simon

hello im having a problem. i wanted to install some software, i found that i had to adjust the maximum memory in the advanced boot options. i changed them to 200 by mistake, i think this is incorrect. i think i should have put 2000 instead. after this i restarted the computer, it wouldnt start. it came to a black screen with grey writing. it had two options, one repair and the other start as normal. i tried the repair and it said that the computer cant automatically repair. i tried the other option and it would just restart and end up on that page again. i went into that bios setup page (blue background, grey screen with options along the top) i looked through it and went to the last option, there was a part that showed the harddrive then sata and cd/dvd, i cant remember the option that i chose but it seemed to remove the hard drive. now the computer starts and goes to a black screen with missing operating system can i save the operating system or has it gone? i would really appreciate any help you could offer thanks simon