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hp pavilion slimline s5000
Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

power button only works when it likes to. and when it does it boots into a menu with 4 options and no usb devices work

there are photos on this device that are very important

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All drives fail eventually -- and someone should have told you to do regular backups of files you can not afford to lose.

 

You did not say what the four options are and whether or not you can boot into Windows.



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it wont let me boot into win7 and the options are setup, diagnostics and stuff like that

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My suspicion, given this is a Win7 PC and therefore probably several years old, is that the drive is failing.

 

So, run the diagnostics and report back what they tell you.



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i cant as it doesnt let me use usb devices

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I don't see it NOW, but I thought you posted a screenshot showing the choices -- and down near the bottom of the screen, it mentioned running diagnostics.  So, I presumed it was offering that to you.



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