Tweaking Windows repair portable

[Bonnie448]

Good Morning.
My comp history, started going to a screen saying put boot disk in , no boot address
I got it to work for a while, going to restore points, then last known successful, but it finally just would not boot at all. Not go to safe, not even see a last successful attempt.

someone told me about the windows repair. he thinks I can go to bios and boot off the program on a stick drive?  I read the specs on the repair program and it says do it from safe with networking.

Any one know if I should waste time trying the stick with the program on it, as a boot source?

[Samson]

No, because the program has to be run inside Windows.

[Boggin]

It's possible your HDD could have died, but if you boot up into the BIOS and it is still listed then files may be recoverable.

I don't know what you are using to post with, but if you have access to a computer with a disk drive then you can create a Paragon Rescue disk which has a file transfer wizard, but should it be the Boot sector screwed, then it can also repair that.

While it is free, it emails you a product key to activate it, but have a read through the user manual and if it boots ups, then select Safe Mode.

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/rk-free/

[Bonnie448]

Thank you, I will try that and see what happens.

[Bonnie448]

Thanks Samson, I thought not,
Thanks Boggin, I will try that to save files, but will get a new computer tower anyway.
I am on an old Athlon AMD with XP on it, no telling how long this will keep working. A neighbor gave it to me as a temp.

[Boggin]

Let us know how you get on.