Hi all - I am a newbie so please be patient with me! I have a problem... I recently upgraded my sisters old pc with Windows 2000 OS (she previously had Windows ME on her PC). Anyway, to cut a long story short, during the installtion a problem occured and the pc will no longer boot up. I decided to remove her hard drive and place it in my pc as a slave with a view to copying her files on to my pc so I can back them up. My pc recognised the new hard drive but all the folder names appear to be random - they have names such as _()|¬", */*-*/*. Does this mean my hard drive is broken and I cannot recover the files? Hopefully not! Thanks in advance for any help. Much appreciated. Kev
Microsoft Windows includes a utility for checking hard drives. Go into a command prompt (click start, run, type 'cmd' and press enter), Type chkdsk X: /f X:= the hard drives letter, probably D: The /f switch tells the program to find and fix any errors it finds.
