NEVER LOSE ANY FILES IF YOU CAN'T ACCESS THE ONE YOU ARE USING...easy way to rescue them is to disconnect your hard drive and connect up another hard drive..install any version of windows on the new hard drive..when installed turn off computer and reconnect the hard drive you were having problems with..restart computer and the version of windows you have put on new hard drive will/should load first. when it is loaded double click on 'my computer icon' at the top left of your screen and you will see the icons for your new hard drive(which will be :c drive) and your old one which will be assigned another letter(might be :d) double click on that and you will be able to access files..music,documents,photo's etc...right click on anything you want to rescue and select send to my documents..they will be transferred to your new hard drive.
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