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Any person who is really good with PC's here? Need to recover stuff...

My computer crashed, I want to recover files from it.
How do I get to just cope the files from the HDD, if I don't really need the OS to work?
It wont start up, I don't even get to the boot menu-selecton all I see is "Acer..." green text.. annoying.

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PhilDeep · 51-55, M

I don't know the background to how this happened, though I've seen PCs lock in that kind of way when Windows was trying to update and failed half-way, and wasn't able to undo its changes...

SuperScooter · 31-35, M

@PhilDeep I got into repair-mode befoer, now i dont even get that.

PhilDeep · 51-55, M

@SuperScooter Presumably the key to enter BIOS/UEFI/System isn't working either. Sometimes you need to do that to change the order of boot devices so that it sees your USB first. If that doesn't work I think you need to take it to a repair shop. They might remove the drive, reconnect it to another machine and read the data off it that way.

SuperScooter · 31-35, M

@PhilDeep I'll do that last part myself. But yeah, that's prolly best solution.