Now I'm trying to figure out how I can possibly get the files off of it for restoring the original software. I should be able to do this if I could access the drive at startup. It acts like it's going to load, but never completes loading...
Here is what I get after the Analyze screen:
The next screen says Structure: Ok. for all the partitions too.
What is this telling me? Please try to explain in only moderately technical language - I don't know much of any programming language....
I got the personal files out of Partition 2 - that one looks like the normal Windows file structure to me.
Here are the files of partition 1:
And here are the files of partition 3:
I created an image of partitions 1 and 3 on my hard drive (can also copy if that works better), and I'm wondering if I could make a bootable USB drive (have a spare to use) with the original software on it so I could restore the OS and other software that came with the computer. But I'm totally at a loss as to how to go about it from here.
HELP??!!!
