computer wont boot to windows

My brother recently tried to create a recovery USB Drive for his computer.
after trying to do that and went to restart his computer it could not find an
OS on the primary drive. I put the drive in my computer and everything seemed
to be intact. i booted it normally off one off one of my hard drives then
looked at the stored information that way. the windows folder still seemed
intact. We've looked into his bios and made sure the boot priority was
correct. I backed up his important stuff on my large SATA HDD. i did not
backup his whole drive however. the windows folder was not saved. since my
computer that was using the SATA HDD is now down. i cannot recover his stuff.

he is using an intel celeron computer.

I am using an A8V motherboard with an athlon 64 3000+ CPU

after his broke down so did mine so im on a vista basic laptop.

my computer breaking down is different and the same. If you want to help me
in 2 ways i can provide the link to my other post.

I'll take all the help i can get.
--
when my computer fails all hell breaks loose.

"AceViper" <AceViper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My brother recently tried to create a recovery USB Drive for his computer.
> after trying to do that and went to restart his computer it could not find
> an
> OS on the primary drive. I put the drive in my computer and everything
> seemed
> to be intact. i booted it normally off one off one of my hard drives then
> looked at the stored information that way. the windows folder still seemed
> intact. We've looked into his bios and made sure the boot priority was
> correct. I backed up his important stuff on my large SATA HDD. i did not
> backup his whole drive however. the windows folder was not saved. since my
> computer that was using the SATA HDD is now down. i cannot recover his
> stuff.
>
> he is using an intel celeron computer.
>
> I am using an A8V motherboard with an athlon 64 3000+ CPU
>
> after his broke down so did mine so im on a vista basic laptop.
>
> my computer breaking down is different and the same. If you want to help
> me
> in 2 ways i can provide the link to my other post.
>
> I'll take all the help i can get.
> --
> when my computer fails all hell breaks loose.

I am a little confused about your post. Here is why:
- What exactly did you do when creating a recovery USB disk?
- What actually happens when you boot the machine? How far
does it get in the boot process? What message(s) do you see
on the screen?
- You write "since my computer that was using the SATA HDD
is now down. i cannot recover his stuff." What do you mean
with this statement? Is your own computer unbootable too?
- You write "my computer breaking down is different and the same."
This statement is obviously contradictory.

If you have two PCs that are inoperative then you should describe
each of them separately. If both became inoperative at the same
time then I suspect that both were damaged by the same thing,
e.g.
- a virus
- inappropriate handling