Performing The Data Recovery After Hard Drive Failure?
Oct 15, 2009
My external hard drive has suddenly stopped working.My computer can see the drive (but not the drive label) and the shortcut I have for the drive will open it but when it does there is nothing there.I have downloaded a few so called free data recovery pieces of software and they can all see the data on my drive with no problems, even stuff I'd previously deleted seems to be available for recovery, however, as soon as you try to recover the data these "free to use" tools need to be registered and paid for.
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Jul 4, 2005
I am looking at my partition and for some weird reason it is saying Partition 1 inactive. How do i correct this so i can recover data of this drive.
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Jan 27, 2006
The other day my computer crashed during log off. When I turned it on again, i ended up with a blue screen saying 'unbootable boot volume' . I guess at this point i should have sent it to a technician!...anyway i found a number of forum posts with the same problem and followed the instructions to do 'chkdsk' from MS DOS. This looked to be doing stuff.... but now... instead of a blue screen I get nothing...the screen just goes blank!
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Sep 20, 2006
I found myself facing a black screen with this text:"We appologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.It your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly, or was automaticlly shutdown to protect your files and folder, choose last known good configuration to revet to the most recent settings that worked.If a previous start up attempt was interrupted due to a power failure or because the powe or reset button was pressed, or if you aren't sure what caused the problem choose start windows normally
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Jan 8, 2006
My hard drive crashed beyond salvage. I bought a new hard drive, installed it and used my recovery disks to get the basics back. It is a Sony Vaio laptop (PCG-Gr390, to be specific). It has Windows XP, pre SP1/SP2. When I installed it, I went through the formatting process and formatted it for the first time, being that it's a new HD. Everything worked as expected, but I have yet to update anything because I can not successfully connect to the Internet.
All efforts to create a connection were unsuccessful.Next to my laptop is a slow Dell desktop, runnung a fully updated XP operating system. Using the same cable modem, connection to the Internet was fine with the desktop for both wired and wireless, but not the newly formatted laptop. My ethernet jack and wireless card on the laptop are working (according to the device manager).
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Jan 28, 2007
Recently my pc has been acting slow up and I've decided to start fresh with just the operating system installed. The only problem is I don't know the best way to go about doing this. I've heard all i have to do is pop back in the windows xp install disc and I go from there, but I don't want to take any chances.
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Jul 10, 2005
Can I install XP on a hard drive which has only one partition with data without destroying the data?
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Oct 15, 2010
i have found that my little bro has accidentally formated my hdd and deleted partitions also then he created new partitions and installed XP. now is there any hope or a way that i can recover my previous data ????
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May 20, 2010
I was trying to do a OS recovery (Repair) using a Dell XP pro SP3 disk on a Dell Dimension 8400. When I try to boot XP it goes to the XP boot screen Then I get a blue screen. I was hopeing just to do a repair but I keep getting no HDD found! The HDD is a seagate 160 gig SATA it is present in setup as 0 drive. I have ran a seagate test it sees the HDD. So does Ubuntu in fact thas how I got to this point.
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Jan 8, 2009
I am cloning my existing hard drive in my laptop (sata) to an external hard drive (pata) in preparation for installing a new larger hard drive (sata)in the laptop. Can I, or how do I transfer the cloned data from the external (pata) to the new internal hard drive (sata)? Thanks in advance and I apoligize if this is a rudimentary question as this is my first time attempting something like this.
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Jun 20, 2008
A friend of mine would like me to take a look at his computer for him later. He said he is getting an error message when he starts it up that says Failure to read internal drive Press F1 to reboot. He doesn't have the exact message but that's about it. Does this mean the hard drive is bad, or is there hope that I can fix this?
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Sep 8, 2005
I recently destroyed file structure due to mistakenly writing a partition table to the wrong hard disk drive on my machine while installing an experimental version of OS X. The saving factor is that the partition that may have formatted was only 20GB out of 200GB and the rest was unallocated free space. I have installed a temporary instance of WinXP to use data recovery software and recover the majority of files from the drive (it is installed on the non-corrupted
drive).
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Apr 23, 2005
I am trying to determine if I really have a hard drive failure. I'm running XP pro. While running EXCEL this morning, my computer froze. Could do nothing but turn the power off and re-boot. Upon re-booting, prior to getting to the Windows screen, I got a message about can't find the hardware. Re-booted again, this time it said there was a problem with the hard drive and it ran a check disc. Took about 6 hours. While it was running, it said there were about 8 to 10 problems had to do with the IE5.1 temporary files. It finished and booted to windows XP.
I thought all was ok. Finished by Excel work. Printed it out ok. Came back later to a black screen with the same initial message about can't finding the hardware.I called Gateway - Tech adviser had me run a program from the Recovery disc that checks the hard drive. Program said hard drive failed. Tech rep said I need to get a new Hard drive.Is this correct or are there other possibilities?
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May 5, 2005
This past August i purchased a Dell PC. It has 160gig Hard Drive. Last night while finishing up some work my PC froze. Because i couldnt move i rebooted my machine. After i rebooted my PC was stuck in the Windows XP boot screen(The screen where that little blue bar scrolls just before the PC boots into windows). It wouldnt boot into windows. I decided to reboot again, and again it just shows the windows xp scroll bar trying to connectI then called Dell, i was asked to boot up and press F12 to do a diagnostic. It came back showing "Failure 7". The Dell "Guru" epxplained to me that my hardrive had failed on me.
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Aug 16, 2008
My laptop, which was my dad's old office laptop, recently crashed. One day when I turned it on, a blue screen popped up and said there were a corrupt file or something. So I decided to reformat using a Windows XP cd, and for some reason it kept getting stuck on 91%, so I just left it on and it eventually hit 100% and completed.After everything was done, I turned it back and after the first Dell Screen bootup, the screen goes blank for 30 seconds, then a a line of white vertical lines show up at the bottom, looking at though something is loading, and it eventually finishes after a minute or two.Next the XP Bootup Screen comes up, and begins to load, but then the screen goes blank again.
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Oct 13, 2008
I had this idea, see if anybody has an opinion about this. My wife has an old XP computer I want to buy her a new one but she doesn't like the vista and she wants to keep the old xp operating system. What I want to do is take the old hard drive and put it in the new computer as the master and take the new hard drive and put it in as the slave erasing the vista off it. Then using the master slave way can I transfer the xp operating system and all her files and data from the old hard drive to the new one.
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Jan 5, 2006
Every time I turn my computer on I am getting the following error message;
"Read Failure on internal hard drive. No bootable devices -- Strike F1 to retry boot F2 for setup utlility"
and every time I attempt to retry boot by entering F1 I do am immediately brought back to the same message. Can someone please help as I am in desperate need to recover company files located on the hard drive.
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Aug 3, 2005
I have recently added a 160Gb Maxtor 6 P160PO drive in an external hi-speed USB housing connected via a 4 port USB-2 card. I have tried copying large amounts of data (13-20Gb) but after a few minutes, I get "The drive is not ready" and it disappears from My Computer. If I disconnect it and re-connect it, it will reappear. The same happended with a 20Gb drive I swapped in, so it seems that it's not the drive. I have tried a different port to no avail.
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Sep 2, 2009
I did a new hard drive install. When the new HD was complete I thought I would copy the data from the old drive to the new.They both still had os installed They were both connected to the system at the same time.When I finished, I removed the old drive. The new drive wouldn't boot. "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter". After recovery disk completed, the system booted fine. I could reboot from the shutdown option.
The problem I have is when the system is shutdown completely. It requires the system disk again. It will reboot after the system disk is reinstalled. I continually get the "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" error message.During bootup after a shutdown, I can F2 into the bios before the error message. It will allow me to exit and then windows will boot without the error message.
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Jul 3, 2010
I am experiencing a registry (hive) file failure which does not allow me to load Windows. Whenever I try to boot in safe mode, or any mode, I get a blue screen that reads:i did some searching on this forum and found a thread that mentioned taking the drive out of the problem computer and slaving it into a different machine to repair the registry. I do have another computer, so this would be an option for me although may be a bit too advanced for my expertise or lack thereof. But I have a BlacX hard drive docking station (basically an external hard drive reader)
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May 25, 2010
I can't believe this is happening to me. AGAIN. How do I even begin to figure out what is wrong? Let me provide some background.In March I had a hard drive failure. I had shot 4gb worth of photos and that night I copied the memory cards onto my hard drive. I then began sorting, re-naming, and organizing them. Next morning, I was in the middle of doing that when it died. The computer froze up a couple times before eventually the drive was not recognized. Diagnostic tools showed some corruption or logical failure. I RMA'd the drive but I lost several gigs of photos from a previous day.
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Sep 3, 2005
My hard drive just changed to fat32 for some reason and all the data is gone? Does anyone know what could be wrong, can I get my data back? When I start it up it goes through a check, ive left the check running and its been going ages, im not sure what its doing. Says something about lost clusters and truncated?
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Jan 27, 2006
I got a 2nd hand lap top from my boss yesterday. Took it home last night and formatted the hard drive, then installed Centos and Linux over it. Got to work this morning to discover that my boss hadn't copied all his files over! I need to recover all his Outlook files.
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Aug 24, 2007
My Sony Vaio had a file missing hal.dll file. A computer guy tried to use a boot disc to get the file and cant. Says my hard drives have crashed. And he cant do anythng because its a raid system and 2 hard drives.suggested i call someone to remove the data. its not backed up!!!
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Sep 9, 2005
I am new to this site and I come here today to ask a question, perhaps someone here will be able to offer a bit of advice.I have a toshiba laptop, running xp pro sp2, 80GB hard drive.Hard drive inoperable due to bad sectors. My hard drive was partitioned into several sections with the C: section containing the os and the D: section containing my data. I could not boot my system so I tried reinstalling os on C: section again, it required a format. I formatted the C: section and then attempted to reinstall os, no luck!Using a third party diagnostic CD I see that my data on the D: partition is still available and intact. The diagnostic disk creates a makeshift os which allows for very limited manipulation of information on hard drive. Since I can not install os onto bad hard drive section C how can I transfer data from the section D: partition to either a new hard drive or to a storage medium?
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Mar 13, 2007
My old hdd was used to run Windows XP Pro, where my profile was password protect and set for private. Since replacing that crashed pc with a new 1 that runs Windows Media Center I have been able to recover all except the data listed under my account's My Documents. When I scroll over it it says folder empty. When I click on it it says access denied (something like that). How can I retrieve this data. I tried some freeware I found online, but all it did was locate previously deleted files to recover. I want to recover stuff not previously deleted.
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Apr 1, 2005
The motherboard in my old HP computer died and I have got 40 GB worth of data on the hard drive that is still working.I got a new XP computer and added the old hard drive as a slave, to get the data out, but apparently the old XP program is locking me out. How do I get around this block, so that I can get onto the old data, to save it, and get it ready to be reformatted, for use in another computer?
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Sep 28, 2007
I spotted that it's named Recovery, i open it and there's nothing in it...but when it's in a .rar it shows everything that it has in it, when i extracted it showed nothing, i think they're hidden
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Aug 2, 2009
I have my windows XP Partition on the C Drive. I am trying to extract all the info from my D Drive and put it onto an External Hard drive. For some reason it is just not letting me transfer the files. I have tried to send and copy them over with no luck. I have tried using Acronis T.Image, but doesn't work (tells me that there is bad sectors and can't transfer). Tried using bootable disks (UBCD 4 Win, Drive XML, Norton partition manager 9.0 etc. As soon as I start extracting files it gives me and error message and asks if I want to ignore, retry etc. What would you suggest. I was going to run a disk check on this D drive, but I am afraid of it wiping out some of my files. Is there another bootable disk that I should use for extracting my files.
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Apr 16, 2007
I would like to transfer the data files off a CD onto my hard drive, then set the program that needs the data files on the CD to read from the files on the hard drive rather than the CD. My CD drive is getting a bit old, but I am unable at the present time to upgrade it.
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Aug 2, 2005
what is procedure and commands to wipe all data from harddrive? the currently installed os is windows 2000. its so badly infected with trojans( thanks kids!) that i am going to start anew and put better access limits on it.(take that guys). already have downloaded all data i want to keep and will be scanning it( before installing) with avast and other goodies i've downloaded.
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