ACER Aspire S3 laptop boot problem.

The problem is, the more you use a corrupt drive, typically, the more corrupt it (and the data) become. I use and recommend Recuva from the makers of CCleaner to recover lost files, but of course, the drive has to be accessible first. If Recuva does not work, then your only recourse is to take the drive to a professional data recovery service - but be forewarned, those services can cost many $100s, or more - with no guarantee of any success.

 

Can you access your files and folders through you desktop. If so you can create a folder put your files and folders in the created folder.

 

As long as the new folder is on a separate physical drive (not different partition on same drive).

 

LJ and Bill,

The drive is back inside the computer at this time and inaccessible. However, when I had it out and externally hooked up to my main desktop computer via USB, the drive showed up normally in Windows Explorer and the entire tree structure displayed as though there was nothing wrong with the drive (which I then assumed).

I suppose there is always the chance that the drive IS glitchy and that that problem is only showing up during the boot. I really think that to be very, very, remote possibility, but, you guys know better than I. Is that what you are suggesting. The fact that the drive passed all Seagate Diagnostic testing suggests that the problem lies elsewhere in the computer. And, there is the fact that the drive responded normally during the successful image restore operation of over an hour (according to the end report by Macrium Reflect).

Incidentally, in addition to all that stuff, I went on to pull the main battery and main board in order to access the CMOS battery, which is otherwise inaccessible on the underside of the main board (however, I did discover that this is not necessary in that there is an unidentified connector accessible on the topside of the main board). Disconnecting the CMOS battery did no more than had pressing the reset button (as expected, but, always hoping ). Hmm, I think that about covers it.

It is not so much that I need to save any data on the drive as it is that I would like to salvage the Windows 8.1 installation to transfer to another computer, if possible. I suppose that question would call for a new thread?????