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11-11-2017, 05:02 PM
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ok I am a bit lost here now you are trying to take data from a hard drive
now from what I can understand you have next working desktop
why not just take the hard drive to the working desktop computer connected and pull the data off
why take the long road of installing windows to a extural hard drive ?
then booting windows from the extural hard drive then pulling data off that probrably will be very slow
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11-11-2017, 05:21 PM
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@Compton
OP pointed out that the other person would not be comfortable in letting his PC to be used
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I'm glad I asked! Thanks. Right now, I have an old laptop with Vista installed. The only other computer we have now is the desktop with the faulty CD ROM that won't boot. Hoping to get a new computer but I'm not sure when, so I don't have one to put faulty CD-ROM in to pull off the data right now. So in the meantime if I can use the flash drive with windows installed to copy the data I'll just take my time to get it done. And yes he would be very upset if I went mucking around in a brand new computer, as I am a novice. Thanks you guys!
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11-11-2017, 06:02 PM
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@Compton
Well, OP already has the Windows 10 DVD and so there's no need to download the large ISO file; it would be easier to directly install from the DVD
@Herbal meds
If your desktop's DVD-ROM is faulty as you just wrote, how were you able to boot the desktop from the Windows 10 DVD then?
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well if the CD ROM faulty create a windows10 PE flash drive would be the best option
at the end of the day, he will choose which way is better for him
don't get me wrong I am not saying your way is bad just giving my suggestion
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11-11-2017, 06:13 PM
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@Compton
I understand but it doesn't look like the DVD player is faulty because if it was, then the desktop couldn't have booted from it
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Installing to a flash drive would be cheaper than buying another hard drive. Especially when needing to buy a new pc. I had tried to download Gandalf's redstone Windows 10 file but my old laptop wouldn't do it. The download was not compatible with the browser on the laptop. When I first started looking for solutions to the hard drive, I had looked at that video online. Trying to download from Gandalf was the first thing I tried to do. I hope that clarifies a bit. sorry for the confusion.
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11-11-2017, 06:16 PM
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@ Herbal meds
I would appreciate if you could tell us why you think your DVD player is faulty. I am curious because you specified initially that the desktop booted from the DVD