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WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Americas Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, announced today the availability of an improved Dataworks3 ARCHIVE module for seamless integration with its award-wining ...

Ricoh Enhances Archive Automation with Integrated Document Management ... - PR Newswire

My roommate asked me to help fix his girlfriend's laptop. Every time you boot it up, it gets up to before the Windows splash, and returns a BSOD with "Unmountable Boot Volume" error. I put in an XP CD and ran the recovery console, along with CHKDSK ...

Troubleshooting A Broken Laptop Drive - Toms Hardware

As much as 40 percent of the Obama administration's $775 billion economic recovery plan could come in the form of tax cuts, report The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The early political entrails-reading suggests that Obama and his ...

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So far so good until I go to boot. I get to verifying dmi pool data and then it starts screaming, like a siren. At first I thought it was overheating. So I booted from an XP disk and it was fine. The problem seems to be booting from the HD. I have 2 ...

Abit ix38 quad GT screams at CPU temps - Toms Hardware

In the report, Gartner notes that "NCCM has primarily been a labor-intensive, manual process involving remote access (for example, Telneting) to individual devices and typing commands into vendor-specific command-line interfaces that are fraught with ...

Intelliden Gets 'Positive' Rating in Gartner's Network Configuration ... - TradingMarkets.com

Dick Garneau from Canada writes: The older generations, now dead, says the weather in the past 75 years was exceptionally calm as compared to the preceding years. They said we are getting back to weather pattern of old. The Indians of the central ...

Rain, cold and ice top Canada's stories - Globe and Mail

Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In ...

Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago. - DailyTech

As Cuba marks the 50th anniversary of the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power, it would do well to implement some serious reforms. In addition to allowing free elections, freedom of expression and freedom to organize, Cuba should ...

Cuba: Time for Change - Latin Business Chronicle

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Open Question: "Backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used"?

OK, I've been trying to solve this problem for quite some time now. The company where I work has two 1TB drives for backups, I do a full backup to them three times a week and alternate them. (One comes home with me for off site storage every other week.) The backups are between 240 and 250 gig a piece. My question as you can see from the title, is why it keeps giving me this error message. There is no file compression or encryption, I have tried it with the "read from indexes on media" (or something similar) both on and off and still get the same error message. I have tried changing the permissions on everyone to full control and still nothing. I also did a test backup of around 6 gigs of randomly selected data from both hard drives in the server and it restored just fine. I have read that if you copy the backup to the local drive and restore it from there it will work but none of the drives have that kind of space. Any help on this is greatly appreciated, thank you. Also to clear up any confusion that may arise, I am not in the midst of a disaster recovery, I am just trying to get the backups working 100% so that if the company is faced with a such a situation we will be able to recover quickly, again, thanks in advance for the help. more

Open Question: Recover partition of hard drive?

Prelude: So I was fixing a family computer wishing to upgrade it to SP3, unfortunately during the set up process, somebody partitioned the windows partition to only have 10 gb and a working hard disk for 340gb. The 10gb was so full, it was impossible to install anything on it. I thought, great opportunity to sort out this stupid logical space problem, "not a problem, I'll get Partition Magic to combine the logical hard drives". I check the reviews for partition magic. Got the software, read the documentation, backup wanted floppies...but the pc doesn't have a floppy drive, hell none of my pc's do. Looked up some reviews and asked my mates, nobody had any problems with Partition Magic. I decided screw it, who needs backups, I'll give it a shot. Scenario: Ran Partition Magic, logical drive merge task over night. There was an error. 340 gb ntfs partition now labeled as "Unassigned", 10gb windows partition unaffected. Googling showed that some people reported the same error, some attributed it to a class with norton, no resolutions were given, everyone saying "serves you right for not backing up essential data" Hopefully: Since there was no memory change on the unassigned partition, I'm hoping that there's a method to either change it back to ntfs without reformatting or to recover the lost data with recovery software. At time task was run, there were 260gb worth of data on the hard drive. Some of the data is irreplaceable (photos and old documents) would be fantastic if I could get it back, any help appreciated. more

Resolved Question: data recovery on a cf card?

The cf card for my camera has got an error on it, how can I recover the data more

Resolved Question: How can I get data off of my bad hard drive?

I have a fujitsu laptop hard drive that had some sectors go bad which prevent it from booting into any OS. Windows OS recovery comes up with an error every time I run it, and my Ubuntu CD has to drop to a primitive shell instead of run in live mode because of an I/O error with sr0. When I do diagnostics, I get error 0146 with error code 2000-0146. However, in recovery mode of the Windows CD, I can still see all of the data and navigate through it. I think that only a tiny part of the hard drive is bad. I want to get some data off of it, but I don't want to pay to do it. What can I do? The Windows disk does not allow you to copy data off of the laptop, only to it. It is a setting in the registry that prevents this, and I can't even get to the registry to change it.... Is there any way that would allow me to leave the hard drive in the original laptop, and copy the data to a usb hard drive that I have. This is because the laptop drive is SATA, and I do not have another computer that uses SATA drives. I might be able to find someone who does, but is there a utility (maybe on UBCD) that I could just copy it to a external USB drive? more

Voting Question: Corrupted external hardrive?

Ok i need help urgently, i have a Seagate 320GB external hardrive, yesterday i was copying files from the hardrive to my new PC and maybe coz there were too many files being copied at the time (50GB+) that it was lagging and the copying process froze half way so i had to close everything down, end all the processes and restart explorer (lol)..... anyway so i was about to try again but this time copy less files at a time, so i double clicked my hdd and a few folders were corrupted :( here's an screenshot showing the folders that are corrupted, they're highlighted: http://i44.tinypic.com/2q3drt1.jpg if i try to click on them, it shows this error message which i Googled btw and found no solution. http://i39.tinypic.com/bi54z6.jpg this hasn't happened to me before and i'm in a panic rite now coz i have a lot of stuff on there, and now the folders containing those files are inaccessible. The only folders that are inaccessible are the ones that contain the files i was copying from the first time, the other folders are still fine. I've tried to use a lot of data recovery programs, as shown in this image: http://i41.tinypic.com/289lagg.jpg but none of them work, i've scanned for almost 9 hours. They did find 40GB+ files but the filenames are gibberish, something like "f239afdkjkj23k4jkj" and they have no extensions. I tried opening the files with Winrar and they just contain a list of folders with gibberish filenames. I tried to rename the files for several extensions like .exe etc and still not working. Those apps i've used couldn't repair a corrupted hardrive either, and those apps are full version btw, not demo. And they're one of the top file recovery programs, i've done my fair bit of Google searching so i know what i'm talking about. So ya is it fully corrupted? Is there any way i can save those folders? Like how there is system restore for PC, is there something that can return those folders to a working state where it's not corrupted or something like that? Please help. right h, i never said i restarted my computer, learn to read. What u suggested didn't make sense either, the folders, as shown in the screenshot, are corrupted. I CAN'T copy the files/folders to my PC and then copy back, besides that's just stupid, that doesn't solve anything. @purebishop, i tried ur suggestions, after CHKDSK finished scanning, all it did was remove the corrupted folders, now those folders are gone and i probably have no way of recovering them at all.......and using HDTune shows i have no error, probably coz the corrupted folders were removed already..... @purebishop, i also tried Acronis Disk Director Suite and couldn't repair the partition, which is the only logical option i see out of all of them, i've looked through all of them and even Googled "how to repair corrupted folders/partitions with Acronis Disk Director Suite" and it doesn't work, apparently it only recovers Hardrives, not external hardrives. BTW, all those apps you suggested, i'm using the FULL VERSION. Nothing works so far... more

Voting Question: Pc unable to boot, hard drive failure....?

file system is corrupt, it was on ntfs, windows xp, i bought a ide to usb converter to try and get it to load up on my laptop and run a data recovery program, but it's not recognising and can't see it as an additional drive etc. so i'm trying to sort out the hard drive back on my old pc, set as master, using recovery console, so far i've tried chkdsk /p & chkdsk /r but it always gets stuck at 67% and i left it like it for hours and it definetly wasn't moving anywhere, It says i can't use the bootcfg /rebuild command as it says "error - failed to successfully scan disks for windows installations this error may be caused by a corrupt file system, which would prevent bootcfg from successfully scanning. use chkdesk to detect any disk errrors. I really need some help, i'm desperate to get this sorted as it has like 4yrs worth of my data :( more

Voting Question: HP dv6000 laptop...Will Not Boot Detailed explanation?

HP DV6000,Windows XP,2 years old recent issues b4 current NON BOOT STATUS: Avast antivirus had been picking up some files that couldnt be deleted I was getting popups... comp. would start up on its own from hibernation state after a few minutes...this was happening for about 4-5 days I started to clean it up scans, spyware scans, hijack this defrag returned home after a couple days. when it would not boot from its hibernatory state Black Screen: offered 3 safe modes and normal modes.>all of which resulted in a blue screen that appeared only for a few seconds asking me about potential changes in software and antivirus i think I put the recovery image on an external drive. I am having issues burning that to DVD. (using a friends hp dv9000 laptop) stops due to Buffer Limit error (i think that is what it said) CAN I USE CDS OR DVDS FOR RECOVERY DISCS tried nero,sonic,avs...(one of them said it couldnt fit it on a 4.7 dvd+r....I dont know why it would just make a set of discs as such) Recovery=10.3 gigs of files So I tried to see if I could install UNBUNTU (5.1 Linux)...it had a Boot error during the installation. I do not think the Hard Drive is screwed... I transferred most of the important data prior to this implosion...but I wanted to obtain a few more things. If i need to get a new hard drive: can I only upgrade to a 160gig 2.5" part # 438485-001 and is it true this model only takes 2 gigs of ram? I am so very thankful for any and all help regarding this...I am stressed over this and want to enjoy this time of year....my birthday is coming soon too...I live in ohio...ok thats enough about me for now....THANK YOU more

Voting Question: eMachines w5243 stuck on "verifying dmi pool data"?

I just finished refomating my computer and I noticed that error. It only happens when the recovery disk is NOT in the CD-ROM drive. I've tried jigging with the settings but I'm not familiar with BIOS. Like I said, the error doesn't pop up with the recovery disk in the drive. But when I reboot without the recovery disk in the drive, the error pops up. Here's a link to the error without the recovery disk in the drive: http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p299/homerm06/100_3208.jpg Any tips or help? more

Voting Question: Cannot factory restore or boot to vista recovery utility, please help!?

Last week when I started my x61 tablet, the windows boot manager said: Windows dailed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose your language settings, and click "Next." 3. Click "Repair your computer." If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance. File: \Boot\BCD Status: 0xc000000f Info: An error occured while attempting to read the boot configuration data. The problem I face is as a result of owning a tablet I don't have a dvd drive. Worse still I cannot access the thinkvantage recovery utility, so I can't even restore my tablet to factory settings. I have no other means of restoring the hard drive by simply putting it in another machine as all my other laptops take IDE drives. Please help me as I cannot think of anything else to try, and ideally wanted to take my tablet on holiday with me in a few days time :( Thanks for any help. more

Resolved Question: HELP! I am trying to open a Word document, but my USB keeps telling me there is a serious disk error with file?

I am trying to open a Word document, but my USB keeps telling me there is a serious disk error with file and +? I am trying to open a Word document, but my USB keeps telling me there is a serious disk error with file and it will not open the file I need. Is my data lost? Why does this keep happening? Also, what is a recovery disk? where can I find it? thank you. more

Voting Question: my little cousin messed up my laptop?

my little cousin messed up my laptop he did wipe and erase data on the recovery disks i have and now everytime i switch on the laptop it gives me the error "operating system not found" i have tried recovering the laptop with the recovery cds i made but it wont work more

Resolved Question: My iphone is dead:*(?

My iphone which I was given to from my dad isn't working (He got a 3g). I didn't want any of the data/stuff so I tried to restore to get rid of everything. But error message 6 popped up halfway through and it got stuck in recovery mode. I would try putting it into DFU Mode but when I hold the on/off button the red bar doesn't pop up to turn it off so it just resets. What should I do? Also it is not seen in itunes Also it is not seen in itunes or Computer more

Voting Question: how do i enter safe mode on hp pavillion a1120n?

I need to back up my data files to do a complete recovery but to do this I need to back up pics and data so as not to lose them. I received an error while trying to do restore "load needed for DLLs for kernel". more

Resolved Question: HD failure - Please help?

OK, here's what has happened so far and what I tried: Windows wouldn't boot- stuck right after boot screen said no bootable CD Tried several different bootable CDs- said no bootable CD for first drive then hung while accessing the drive that had a disc in it. Tried same thing with other disc drive. Removed HD and put it in an external enclosure: -Windows recognized drive and assigned letter but warning pops up and says it needs formatted before it can be used. -Try to open/browse drive> "I:\ is not accessable. The directory is corrupt and unreadable. I think it is physically working fine but something is wrong with the file structure or partition (it has two partitions) I think it would let me format it but I want to try and recover data first. Is there anyway to recover it? If I do a quick format to correct the file structure could my data be recovered? I tried PC Inspector File Recovery and a few other programs. Here's the weird part. I put a different drive in the original computer (still won't boot- I'm on another one) and I got the same error when trying to boot without a CD, then the same result as before when trying to boot with a CD. It's possible that the power supply damaged the first drive and now has messed up the second one as well but the first one seems fine other than the file structure now that it is in an enclosure. What should I try next? -My Computer shows it as 0 bytes used and 0 free. -file system type is blank (RAW?) it was NTFS -device status says it is running properly (and I can here it spin) -Can't run disc check "because windows can not access the disc" more

Resolved Question: Iphone 3g software update?

Hi everyone. Everytime i plug my iphone 3g into itunes for a software update, half way through updating it tells me it cannot update and then my iphone goes into recovery mode so i have to activate it and put all my data from the back up back on it. It takes a total of 2 hours for it to be complete. Is there anyway of preventing this? I have seen a friend just plug his iphone in for the update and it only takes 5 minuets with no errors. Just in case it helps I am using a PC and so is my firend. more

Resolved Question: Power surge, computer crash. windows has 'recovered' but need to ensure data on hard drive is saved. How?

Windows went through a recovery profile... came back and said no errors on system and indicated windows needed to be rebooted to restore. On reboot system is asking for 'start-up' data... name the computer, etc. Concern is data on hard drive. Before we do anything else, what are best mechanics to recover the hard drive data? more

Resolved Question: Hardware related "NTLDR is missing" error?

Last night I removed my old power supply and installed a new power supply and when I booted my computer for the first time with my new psu I got the boot error "NTLDR is missing." After researching for a bit on one of my working computers the most common reason I got for this error is bad or corrupt boot file, but I didn't change any other hardware other than the psu which is why I think I have a different cause for my problem. I used the Windows XP installation CD to see if I could shed some light on the problem and when I went to repair a windows installation it listed my drives as follows: D Drive - Windows Partiton E Drive - Partioned Space Nomarked Drive - Partioned Space Now I have three 150 gig HDDs that are usually labeled as C,D,E - the Windows XP recovery console AND Windows XP installation CD did not recognize the C drive as the primary windows installation anymore (as C). My board has 2 SATA hookups and 2 IDE hookups running currently. My C Drive and DVD drive are hooked into my SATA hookups while the other two HDDs are configured through my IDE hookups. I've had no problems with this setup for over a year now and I'm looking for something I may have done wrong so I don't have to wipe and start over again and lose all my data. I'm 90% sure I installed the new psu correctly. The 24 pin, 8 pin, and all sata/power component cables are in the correct drives/fans, etc. Thanks for any help. more

Resolved Question: HDD Data Recovery SAMSUNG HM320JI?

I have a Samsung SATA HM320JI 320GB disk which died on me. It happened by itself without any physical or electrical disturbance. As the drive isn't recognized on device manager, no physical device shows up on disk manager (hardware error). Each time I attach it (external usb box,sata cable to motherboard; on different computers) I hear the drive platter spin up, a few head movement (no loud or repeating click) and platters spin down slowly. I bought an exact same HDD and swapped the controller PCB on the bottom but the results didn't change. I have sensitive data on the drive. Any data recovery suggestions which doesn't cost thousands of dollars ? more

Resolved Question: Digital "picture error" on xD card?

Does anyone have a way or prog. to recovery pix data from xD card?Olympus rep said DAR recov. prog. may work. Olympus master 2 transfer prog. is the only thing to open thumbnails ( 96 0f 400 shots) but won't transfer. Any help appreciated greatly. Thanks! more

Resolved Question: Why do you own a PC when you can own a Mac?

I am a longtime Mac user who has recently took ownership of a HP laptop (it's a long story.) After obtaining the recovery disks from HP I proceeded to recover this machine to factory settings. This is the procedure: Restore the PC to its original condition with the recovery discs If the PC cannot access Windows, and the Recovery Manager cannot be started by selecting the F11 key on start-up, use the recovery discs to start the PC and restore the hard drive to the original operating condition by following the steps below. NOTE:Please be aware that using your system's recovery discs may take two hours, and that using discs ordered directly from HP may take four to six hours and include several restarts. The HP Recovery Manager function on the recovery discs examines the condition of the hard drive and attempts to fix any system errors so that the PC can start and run Windows. If the disc sectors used by the HP Recovery Manager are corrupted or cannot be repaired, the Recovery Manager will overwrite all the data and reconfigure the entire hard drive. Use the recovery discs to restore the PC by following the steps below. Open the disc drive door and turn off the PC. Insert the first Recovery disc in the disc drive and close the door. Press the power button to turn on the PC. The HP Recovery Manager window appears during the boot process. If the HP Recovery Manager can access the hard drive, a prompt is displayed to backup the user files before continuing the recovery. If the HP Recovery Manager cannot access the hard drive to fix the system errors, the HP Recovery Manager will overwrite all the data and reconfigure the entire hard drive to its original condition. Follow the prompts to insert any additional recovery discs in the disc drive. After restoring the PC to its original factory template condition, it is extremely important to obtain and install updates for the PC and its software, which has been released since the manufacture date of the PC. Use the HP Drivers and Downloads page to search for updates relating to HP Update, HP Health Check, and HP QuickPlay. Also, search for an updated BIOS and any updated device drivers. What a time waster. Reinstalling the OS on a Mac is so easy. So why a PC instead of a Mac? more

Voting Question: My computer screen is all choppy and goes to blue screen immediately after desktop comes up. Etc... Help?

A couple days ago my computer said it was trying to update something, and had a 5 minute countdown, I kept hitting restart later. I went to sleep, and when I got up it had restarted and was at the sign in screen, but it was all choppy. I signed in and the desktop was extremely choppy, and went immediately to a blue screen saying KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR with Tech Info: 0x0000007a (0x00000002 0xc0000005 0x863865f0 0x00000000). I tried to restart and get to the BIOS, but when I get to the main screen it won't let me move up and down to select to restart in safe mode, or anything else. It's like it's locked. I don't know of any other way to get into safe mode. I have a Dell Dimension E310. I don't have a boot or recovery disk or anything like that for it. Please Help? more

Voting Question: Why can I only boot from cd on new pc?

Says there is an error and needs to repair but I have to use the recovery cd every time I reboot, What's UP? Do I have to reinstall...and will I loose my current data on my hard drive? Windows Vista! more

Resolved Question: i wonna ask how can one slave a laptop harddisk to another laptop so i can try to backup data recover it ?

using recovery tools since the lap-top wont boot says error loading OS.seems harddisk has a problem more

Resolved Question: BSOD: c000021a, cannot get to any command prompt, windows will not boot.?

I have a Gateway laptop, MP6954, running Windows XP. I believe this problem started out with a virus or trojan, and I have no idea where to go from here. When I boot up Windows, sometimes I get a desktop asking for my password, sometimes it doesn't bring up the login/password screen [like it was doing before this whole problem started]. When I get the password, I just hit enter and it looks like it wants to bring up the desktop, but never does, just wallpaper. Same with when it doesn't bring up the login screen. From here, I can't do anything. At one point, Windows was saying it needed to close down the Windows Logon Process, but now it says nothing, just a blank wallpaper. I cannot bring up Task Manager. So I thought, safe mode! After trying all my options, I got absolutely nowhere. Safe Mode brings up several lines like, "multi-disk(0)partition(1)partition(1)drivers etc." From here, I can only reboot. Safe Mode with Networking gets me back to the blank desktop, no task manager, etc. Last Known Good Configuration takes me to the desktop with no options. Safe Mode with Command Prompt brings up more multi-disk(0) messages. Time to pull out the recovery disc that Gateway provided. I try running this, but after the Gateway logo comes up, I get the BSOD, error c000021a Fatal System Error, the system has shut down. So, basically, I cannot boot Windows, I cannot get to a command prompt, and my recovery disk isn't working. Anyone have any other ideas? I'm more than willingly to lose my data to reinstall Windows XP, but I can't even get to that option! TIA for any help/advice! All I have is my Gateway Recovery Disk, I believe my family might have a genuine disk of Windows XP, could this work? Or where could I find a Windows 98 start up disk? I'll pick up the XP disc tonight and see if that gets me any further. more

Resolved Question: Computer Restoration Help?

Hi, I have a desktop computer and my sister was using it and she some how screwed it up and I'm not sure how? when I boot up the computer a screen appears and says that it tried to restore but and error occured so I could not recover. then it gives you two options. one is to try the recovery process again, and the second one is to delete recovery data and proceed to boot menu. what does delete recovery data mean/do? I tried to google it but nothing came up. Thankss! more

Resolved Question: Smart Hard Disk Error Help?

I have a hp pavillion dv5-1002nr notebook PC. I've only had it for 2 months now, and im having problems with the hard disk. When I click on computer it shows my HP recovery hard disk 3/4 full even though I barely have anything stored. So when My notebook starts up it shows the following message: "The Smart hard disk check had detected an imminent failure. To ensure no data loss, please backup the contect immediately and run the hard disk test is system disagnostic. Hard Disk 1 F2- SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC ENTER - Continue startup " As you can see i always click enter, but I would still like to know why my hard drive is almost full. I did the hard disk test is system diagnostic and it failed for the full scan. I need your help , Thanks. more

Resolved Question: Can Dell's media direct partition be deleted ?

Can Dell inspiron 1525's Media direct partition be deleted and made an extended partition? since my laptop has already 4 partitions,all of them primary,(the os partition,recovery,EISA partition and media direct)..i am not able to create a new partition and it shows the error,"the hard disk already has the max no:of partitions"..But i really need to create a new partition for data since keeping it in os partition is not safe..(in case of re-installations i will lose all the data).. cud anyone tell me if i can delete the media direct partition,make 2 new extended partitions (1 for data and other for media direct) and get back the media direct functionality?? please give detailed instructions.... Dell representatives..plz help... more

Resolved Question: "ntfs.sys is missing or corrupted" msg after installing a new dvd writer with sata cable, formatted comp week ?

recently my computers dvd writer became faulty, so i called the hp engineer to fix it, he replaced it but now when i start my comp it gives me "ntfs.sys file missing or corrupted" error on micrsoft website the soln is: To resolve this problem, replace the missing or corrupted Ntfs.sys file:1.Use the Windows XP startup disks or the Windows XP CD to restart your computer. 2.When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to select the To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R option. 3.Type the number of the Windows installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console, and then press ENTER. 4.Type the administrator password when you are prompted, and then press ENTER. If no administrator password exists, just press ENTER. 5.At the command prompt, type the following commands (press ENTER after each command): cd \windows\system32\drivers ren ntfs.sys ntfs.old Note This step renames the corrupted Ntfs.sys file to Ntfs.old. If the Ntfs.sys file is not found, the file is missing. 6.At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER: copy cd:\i386\ntfs.sys drive:\windows\system32\drivers Where cd is the drive letter for the CD-ROM drive that contains the Windows XP CD, and drive is the drive where you installed Windows XP. 7.Remove the Windows XP CD from your CD-ROM drive, type quit at a command prompt, and then press ENTER to quit the Recovery Console. 8.Restart the computer. i wanted to know will this cause me to lose my data? or can i happily go with it pls help @littlefibs ya dude the cable connecting the harddisk and motherboard was lose.... i told the tech to check the hdd wire but he said it was tight. Probably wanted to be back home for dinner(it was 7:30). Anyways later i opened the case unplugged the cables and then placed them back tightly and voila it works!!!! Thanx The tech must have losened it accidentally...damn it i turned out to be smarter than the guy who came to fix my comp???!!!! How weird is that?! more

Resolved Question: Is there a way to recover files off of a broken operating system?

My girlfriend's Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop just crashed ealier today. The error message was \systemroot\System32\config\SOFTWARE. She has a lot of really important files on it. Ive tried running the system in safe mode, last working mode, safe w/ cmd prompt, ect. Ive tried running every option available. The main things i need to know is: -Is there a way to recover the data from the hard drive? -Can I somehow install acess/install the recovery console? (it was not previously installed on the computer) -Is there a way i could run another operating system such as linux or another version of windows xp to bypass the corrupted version and access the files? In short i just need to know if there is any possible way to get the files off the computer. I have a 500gb external hard drive if that helps at all. Thanks. more

Resolved Question: Help Please Please!! LaCie External Hard Disc Problem?

I have a 250Gb LaCie external hard drive. For some reason I don't know, It just stopped working. I can see the drive's letter but I get the error message when I try to open it. it says 'the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable'. I got EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional from a friend and tried to recover. But what I don't see any of my previous folder and files from the recovered folder. Any suggestion would be much appreciated, thanks more

Resolved Question: Reinstalling Vista on a Dell Inspiron 1720.?

The short story is that I got a virus and decided the best way to get rid of it is to format the hard drive. So I pop in the Vista Home Premium DVD that came with the laptop. Coming to the step were you select the partition on which to install the OS, I first format the C partition (1st install attempt) and went to the next step, all went well until I came the the final screen were vista shows 4 steps it goes through. On the first, copying files, it just jumps to 100%, on expanding files it goes very slowly counting to 100%, not sure if that's normal. Before coming to the last step the laptop restarts and eventually comes to the last step, completing installation, there it just sits and goes no were! The only indication is that the hard drive activity light will work steady for two minutes then nothing at all. After approx 15 to 20 minutes the screen goes black and all I see is the mouse. The only thing now is to force a shut down. On the second attempt I formatted the recovery partition, I have my data on a external hard drive. So I figured I don't need that anyhow. Nothing different. On the third try I formatted everything and through the media direct CD utility I re-sized the C partition to use the whole drive. There was no difference, the install would freeze on the last step. I also have a Windows XP Home OS that I figured I would try and see if that would work. But I get an error message that windows cannot find the hard drive and to make sure its connected and drivers are installed. I don't get this with Vista. If I understand correctly, the Media Direct DVD is used as some kind of driver, since the instructions for it say to install it before installing Vista. Media Direct will also get its own partition, about 2GB. I would really appreciate some wisdom with this situation! I am usually able to figure stuff like this out myself, but this time, I'm at a loss. Thanks in advance for your input! The laptop does not have an operating system installed as its sitting right now. Remember the drive is formatted. The Vista install does not complete because of some unseen reason to me. If there is some trick to reinstalling a OS on a DELL computer? more

Voting Question: i was recovering my system using advent recovery cd while it was doing the process the computer swiched of?

now it says windows software error and evertime i touch any key it reboots and comes up with the same screen somtimes it says operating system not found. What i was doing was i was going to reformmat get ride of all data and start windows xp again . While it was doing that the computer switched off!!!! what do i do any help welcome thanks more

Voting Question: Corrupted RAR File Recovery...(CRC Error)?

I had RAR ed an ISO file with no recovery recovery record... When I tried to extract it yesterday...It extrcts upto 95% Ok and just in the end it says it is corrupt........Some CRC error I had my favorite songs in it......... What should I do to get back whatever data in good shape over their ?????? Pleaseeeee Help Somebodyyyyyyyy............ more

Voting Question: Trying to recover data from crashed HDD using SATA usb docking station - is all my data gone?

My laptop's (Compaq Presario) hard drive crashed, so I bought an SATA HDD USB docking station in order to see if I could retrieve any data from the drive. I have it all hooked up, the drive shows up, but when I try to explore it, an error message pops up that says it's not accessible and : "The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable." Does this mean that there is no possibility of data recovery, or is there something else I'm supposed to be doing that might help the process? Thank you so much for any help. ETA: Thanks, Mercuri & Chris. I tried to run a check disk on the drive by clicking properties, tool, then "error checking" - is that right? But it tells me that it can't check the disk because windows cannot access the disk. I'll try the boot cd you suggested now. Thanks so much for the help! more

Resolved Question: Is my data still recoverable?

I had a hard drive problem a couple of months ago. I finally got around to putting the hard disk in another computer and was in the middle of taking over ownership of the files when I got a message saying that "the disk in drive e: is not formatted, do you want to format it now" I was logged in as administrator in safe mode to take ownership of the files. I was able to transfer most of my family pictures, but was not able to get to a lot of other photos and files before the final error occurred. I had gotten the message several times during the recovery process, but it finally gave up and now I can't access anything. Is the data still recoverable, or am I completely out of luck? Thanks in advance. I will resolve this question. more

Resolved Question: Toshiba Satellite Pro L40 - can't restore to factory settings.?

Can't Recover my Laptop with Out-Of-The Box HDDrecovery Utility. Hi. I have a Laptop with a 80Gb hard drive that came pre-installed with windows Vista Home Basic. It originally had 3 partitions: 1. A hidden Toshiba System Volume... I know that this is the Windows Recovery Environment Partition vista creates. 2. My C: Drive, and 3. HDDRECOVERY... a toshiba installed partition that should allow me to reformat and recover my hard drive with its out-of-the-box settings. Recently, I've decided to dual-boot with Ubuntu, and so I partitioned my 68 GB partition (the C: Drive), and made a 55 GB Vista one and the rest went into an EXT3 Partition with my ubuntu on it. I didn't like th GRUB loader, so I decided to try and use System Commander (it's a Boot Manager that allows you to select from a graphical menu on boot). Unfortunately, System Commander basically wreaked havoc with my MBR, and all my OSs won't boot anymore. I've used the Ubuntu LiveCD to copy all my personal files (music, documents, videos... etc) into my External Hard Disk Drive. I had planned to use Toshiba HDD Recover to restore my computer to its vista state. I had successfully accessed this utility by pressing '0' on boot. However, after I tried it's options about restoring the system to out-of-the-box settings, it didn't work. When I used to option restore all default partitions (I assume this would reconfigure my computer to a 3partition HDD), it said error: Unable to create partition. (this error also aparently unformatted that partition... I had to reformat it in the Ubuntu Live-CD environment... and it would seem that all my date in that partition has been lost) When I try to option on restoring the laptop but keeping my own current number of partitions, it says that their isn't enough space in my Hard Drive. Which is rather strange. I'm afraid to use the option "Erase all data from Disk"... shall this option reformat my hard drive? How will I ever restore my Vista (it's expensive, and I naturally don't have a DVD or a serial key with me, as Toshiba no longer ships Disks with its laptops... only recovery partitions)? My latest idea was copy the entire HDDRECOVERY PARTITION to my EXTERNAL HDD, then erase all data from the Disk, then using Ubuntu Live CD, create a partition in the unformatted hard disk and use the partition... hopefully, that would work. But I have doubts that the TOSHIBA SYSTEM RECOVERY utility that uses the images in the HDDR partition is standalone- it might need vista to run. and if I format the disk, there won't be any vista left, wouldn't there be? I could really use some help. P,S, In retrospect, I feel very dumb for not creating a Recover DVD... relying on a recovery partition is bad. more

Resolved Question: Hard drive error...need to format disk.Please help!?

You need to format disk before you can use it. Is what I get when trying to open my D drive.This happened totally random. It is a partition, but the other part(the one with windows) works fine. I tried a recovery tool but it doesn't even pick it up. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how to retrieve my data? Please help..... more

Resolved Question: I just restore my computer and lost all data and pics. Is there anyway i can get my pics back?

Hi there, Last night, when i turned on my laptop, it shows me a death blue screen with an error (i forgot wat was the error). I tried to reboot my computer and also tried to run it in safe mode, but didn't work. Then i restart my comp. again and press "R" for recovery on startup. It took me to the system restore and recovery, where it ask me to insert the system restore disk. I didn't have any system restore/recovery disk. so i insert the "install operating system" cd. I was hoping that if it is not the right cd then the system will warn me. But it start restoring my files and data. So i thought it worked. During recovery it didn't ask me anything. I mean no window pops up for yes or no question and it just reinstalled my computer from back to it's original. Now i have lost everything. I'm just wondering, if there is anyway i can get my files and pics back or i can restore it back where it was showing me the death blue screen? So i can take it to the BESTBUY to recover it and bring all my data and files back. Cuz, before it reinstalled my comp. it actually backed up and copying all my files. So i'm just hoping that there might be a luck. Any kind of help or suggestion will be appreciated. Thanx in advance more

Resolved Question: Damaged Windows File System?

hi. i was just about to do this (but i need to know if i will lose and data like photos and music) Method 2: Damaged File System If the second parameter (0xbbbbbbbb) of the Stop error is 0xC0000032, the file system is damaged. If this is the case, restart the computer to the Recovery Console, and then use the chkdsk /r command to repair the volume. After you repair the volume, check your hardware to isolate the cause of the file system damage. To do this, follow these steps: 1.Start your computer by using the Windows startup disks, or with the Windows installation disk if your computer can start from the CD drive. 2.When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press R to select the repair option. 3.If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the Windows installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console. 4.Type the administrator password when you are prompted to do this. Note If no administrator password exists, press ENTER. 5.At the command prompt, on the drive where Windows is installed, type chkdsk /r, and then press ENTER. 6.At the command prompt, type exit, and then press ENTER to restart your computer. If this procedure does not work, repeat it and use the fixboot command in step 5 instead of the chkdsk /r command. more

Resolved Question: I bought hp laptop with vista window but they did not give me window back up cd...?

I would have to make this cd by myself when I on it first time but I did not it that time can I make window back up cd now there is alos a recovery disk creation option will i have to use this option and I asked same question with hp helper and they replied me.......as I would request you to reinstall the windows either through recovery partition if recovery partition has been shipped with the Notebook by performing the below mention workaround. 1. Press the power button to turn on the PC, and press F11 on the keyboard immediately while the computer is starting up. The HP Backup and Recovery Manager window will appear. 2. Click advanced options, select the System recovery option, and then click next. 3. If the Recovery Solution can access the hard drive it displays a prompt to backup up user files before continuing the recovery. You may either backup your files, or skip the backup and recover the operating system. 4. If the Recovery Solution cannot access the hard drive to fix the system errors, use the set of Recovery disks that you created to recover the hard drive to its original condition. Note: - Personal data and software you have installed on the notebook will be lost during the OS reinstall. HP recommends that you make a backup copy of all personal data before beginning this process. HP is not responsible for any data loss. Regarding dual boot operating system I would also need to inform you that HP does not recommend dual boot of operating system. but I m still confused I m not that clear is anybody know and has done this thing so plz guide me step by step easily plz i will be ve more

Resolved Question: Error 17, not Ubuntu!?

Ok, I'm in big trouble. I have no idea what my sister did to the pc, but I restarted it and I get an error 17, I have the Vista Recovery Disk, I've tried almost all the options. I have absolutely no association with Linux or Ubuntu (I have no idea what they are) , because when I search "error 17" all these linux problems come up. I read on the forums and I tried starting up cmd prompt from recovery disk. I tried the commands bootrec /fixboot and it says : The Volume Does Not Contain a Recognized File System". I am completely stuck, I have no idea what to do, and I DEFINITELY do not want to lose the info on the pc, so please, if there's any way to fix it or to back up the data at this point, tell me. Hasty answers would be GREATLY appreciated, because I desperately need my PC A.S.A.P. Thank You I already added you to Yahoo messenger, mate. I'm online more

Resolved Question: Why cant i format my hard drive ?

I am having trouble booting up my pc ,i have tried express recovery with both windows xp disc and also the hard drive data disc, i t keeps coming back with HPA not enabled on this drive. This is happening with the original hard drive which holds XP and a formatted disc with no data whatsoever,it will not allow me too do a fresh XP install or a repair on the original hard drive. On the empty drive i have run a thorough disk test, this comes back clear of errors. Any ideas folks cause its doin my head in How can i enable the hard drive for hpa more

Resolved Question: Could you check my answer on this statistics/probability/hypothesis question?

Patients recovering from an appendix operation normally spend an average of 6.3 days in the hospital. The distribution of recovery times is normal with a s.d. of 2 days. The hospital is trying a new recovery program designed to lessen the time patients spend in the hospital. The first 16 appendix patients in this new program were released from the hospital in an average of 5.3 days. On the basis of these data, can the hospital conclude that the new program has a significant reduction of recovery time? Test at the .05 level of significance. The appropriate statistical procedure for this example would be a a. t-test b. z-test (I chose B) Is this a one-tailed or a two-tailed test? (I said one-tailed) The most approximate null hypothesis would be: A. μ new program = 6.3 B. μ new program = 5.5 C. μ new program ≤ 6.3 D. μ new program ≥ 6.3 (I said C) Setup the criteria for making a decision. That is, find the critical value using an alpha = 0.5 using your tables. (I said -0.5.) What is the numberic value of your standard error? 0.5 What is the t- or z-value you obtained? .4801 Based on your results, you would A. reject the null hypothesis B. fail to reject the null hypothesis (I said A) more

Voting Question: Help with my PC please.?

When i'm in my console recovery, trying to format my PC so i can install XP, type "chkdsk" and it says "the volume has one or more unrecoverable erros" Can this be fixed? I'm trying to format my HD and install windows XP. When i go to install, it says i have a STOP error(00000050). When i try to delete the partition and create a new one, and install again, it says it cannot delete it because it has data needed to finish installing. When i try to Format through the recover console, it says i cannot format removable media. I have everything unplugged except the mouse and keyboard. I had the system32 error a few days ago, so i tried to fix i, then just say forget it and tried to just re-install windows and all this started. more

Resolved Question: I have a URGENT problem with windows xp!!!!! deleted user files!!!!!?

Hi to everybody I have a computer I am fixing for my friend and it has windows xp home sp2 with 3 users, and i had to format it for him because it had problems, i installed another user with my name and deleted all the users keeping the files, as i was deleting the last one an error message showed up with "cannot delete images as it is a windows folder", something like that and i found that the images folder was missing in the deleted user's folder on the desktop and in it's original location, i did a system restore and got all the users back, but then i did something really stupid, i booted with a ubuntu live cd to copy the data on my 500 gb external disk without risk of getting infected by viruses, and i started deleting a few system files on the c:\ directory so that it was easyer to sort out what i needed (i didn't delete the folders, just a few files on the root directory, don't remember which, and when i went to the user folder i didn't find the documents folder, even though i had just seen them on windows and they were there (documents and settings\the user\documents) so i tried to boot from windows again but i got the ntldr missing error, i tried to fix mbr, boot record and all the other tips i found online but i can't boot it, i tried to do a recovery installation after fixing the mbr(setup couldn't find the broken Windows xp) but it stops at 35 minutes installing drivers, i tried to see the setupapi log and it stopped on input.inf yesterday and on volume.inf today(a dozen of lines ahead), even putting diskinternals when i installed windows on the other empty partition but there were a whole bunch of lost files but no documents folder in all the user folders (desktop though was present) and now i don't know what else to do(i tried a bartPE cd but bios said it couldn't boot) by the way i unplugged all devices exept USB mouse and keyboard (don't have PS/2 ports) and i tried disactivating all options in the bios and it didn't work so i restored system defaults my hardware configuration is DELL dimension E520 Intel core 2 duo windows xp home edition (vista capable) floppy drive dvd rewrite 1gb ram 160 hdd I need urgent help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for everybody p.s. I'm italian so excuse me for my english i passed the ntldr problem, now i'm stuck in the recovery installation!!!!!! more

Resolved Question: Why would an external hard drive stop working without any apparent reason?

I have a 500GB external hard drive which has just stopped working and most probably I have lost all my data. It never fell nor was dropped. I was simply accessing a pictures folder with ACDSee when it just stopped working. Bought it about a year ago. It says "Rock Mobile Disk" on it's container, while the actual hard drive is manufactured by Western Digital. I have tried many data recovery software programs none have been able to even start to recover. I have been getting I/O error in sector 0. If it's mechanical problem is there anyway I could fix it? I have mounted the drive directly onto my PC. Had the same problem. more

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Voting Question: My HP Dv6000 laptop crashed!!!?

i went to turn it on and it goes to the desktop and as soon as it loads a blue screen comes on sayin that it wants to prevent my computer from being damaged. and that there is an error. should I use a recovery disk?!! will i lose my data? more

Voting Question: Floppy Disk Data/File Recovery!! HELP!!?

I want to recover some files that I have in some floppy disks. I´ve tried several softwares and some of them have worked. Tried Undelete Plus and Recova but none of them worked for me (with Undelete Plus I don´t know why but I only had the option to scan C: drive only, not floppy or any other drive, and Recova found errors and didn´t do anything for me). The one that worked is Active@ Floppy Recovery 2.0, it showed all my files in the floppy disk! But as it is a demo version I cannot recover all my files. The thing is I´m sure my files are there and I can recover them but I need a good FREE software to recover them ALL. I don´t want to pay since there are only 2 floppy disks and I´m never going to use the software again! I no longer use floppy disks! It´s all about USB memory disks now.... Please tell me, which software do you recommend?? please please pleaseeeee!!! ps. the problem with my floppy disks is the classic note that they no longer have formatt and if I want to formatt them... but I haven´t done anything like that cuz I know I can recover my files.... more

Resolved Question: Yikes! Need some serious help, document recovery problem!

Ok so yesterday I made some alterations to a very long Wordpad document, I saved it and called it a night. This morning when I opened it half the text was missing. There was no jumbled characters or error messages of any sort, but the document literally seemed to have been cut in half. I had the begining part but the end was just gone. I have seen this happen a few times but usually it's because of a power surge in the middle of typing a document. I've only had this happen once before under normal circumstances (programs and computer are shut down correctly) and it wasn't a major deal, i'd only just started on that document. But this one had rather a lot of work put into it and although I have an older back-up copy it would be a royal pain to have to retype all the extra content. Does anyone know... A) What causes this? B) How, if it's possible, I might recover the lost text? I've tried the "Recover text from any file" trick in Microsoft Word, but it didn't work, most of the document was still missing. The file size hasn't decreased which makes it seem as if the data is still there somehow. more