I have accidently run recovery manager on my laptop without taking a back of my data. How can I now recover the lost data?
Best reply by Colanth:
If it got overwritten, which is probably the case, by paying a lab tens of thousands of dollars to scan the disks in the drive with a scanning electron microscope (with no guarantee of success – you pay up front).
IOW, it’s gone.
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Data recovery for data lost in Recovery manager?
I have a dell laptop. It has become completely infected with a virus. I know the hard drive is infected because it has shut down administrator and keeps showing warning that system 32 is not usable. I would like to completely wipe out my hard drive bringing it back to factory status but I don’t have the restore disk. Is this something I can do without the disk? If so, how? Thanks!
I don’t have the recovery disk for the laptop and I don’t have any for any of the other computers as well. Never got one with them.
Best reply by November Rain:
the only way other than ripping it out of your computer is too download something and without administrator approval that may be tough or impossible, one thing to try, go into safe mode, restart, press ” F 8 ” repeatedly, and download this to clean it up, it is one of the elites..
http://download.cnet.com/SuperAntiSpyware-Free-Edition/3000-8022_4-10523889.html?tag=mncol
if you do not want to do that try this then…….
http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm
click download killdisk suite free
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How to delete hard drive without recovery disk?
I have some confidential/private information in some of my files, so if i have a company do Data Recovery on my laptop that recently crashed are they going to be able to see all of my files?
Best reply by Mystic:
yes
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If i get a company to do Data Recovery on my crashed laptop, will they be able to see all of my files?
I just installed a new hard drive into my Toshiba laptop and I put in the Recover cd to format my new hard drive with my computers factory drivers and programs. The cd boots up and asks me to continue, then makes sure that I know my hard drive will be erased, and I select continue. When I do this the cd loops back around to the first question and starts over again and does this every time.
Best reply by hemppy:
hi kayla, to make a computer work correctly you must have a good database and a good knowledge base so what has happened is that when you placed your knew hard drive in your computer your knowledge base was lost although you have a good data base this is very easy to understand but very hard to explain so to make your computer work correctly i recommend that you take your laptop to a computer repairman and explain to him that you installed a new hard drive and that you would like it if he erased your petition to install a new petition so that when your system is returned it will work right with the new drivers. good luck hope i was helpful to you
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Just bought a new hard drive and recovery disc will not work.?
so i ran out of space on the tiny 80 gig hard drive that was in my laptop so i decided it was time to upgrade to something bigger. So i got a new seagate 500 gig hard drive and put it in, then installed windows again but i noticed after installing a couple drivers that there is no recovery drive. why isn’t there one? I am pretty sure i need one but dont know how to get one there! any help would be nice!
Best reply by KateJB:
There is no recovery partition on your new drive because you didn’t make one.
If you have a Windows disc, then you don’t really *need* one. Save your drivers to another disc and you should be okay if you need to reinstall in the future.
Good luck.
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why is there no recovery drive on my new hard drive after i finished installing everything?
I just switched from Norton AV to Avast!.
Avast! requires that I set what areas to scan. This laptop is running on Vista Home Premium, and has a ‘D:’ drive for recovery files. Should I make the scan run on this hard disk partition?
Best reply by Colinc:
Yes. If the machine becomes infected, it can place files all over the system. I have even seen a virus infect every shared folder on a server from one machine.
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Should my scheduled virus scan run on the partition of my hard drive with recovery files?
My laptop’s hard drive is far too small anymore, and I’d like to install a larger one. I don’t mind formatting the old one or doing a clean installation for everything all over again. I JUST NEED MORE SPACE!!! I have a recovery disk for my laptop that has Windows XP Home and all my other factory settings on it. Will this work okay for a new installation?
Best reply by Edward1983:
no it will not install windows
a recovery disk instructs windows to rewrite itself and install drivers thats all it does not install windows itself
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Can I do a clean installation to a new hard drive with my recovery disk that came with my laptop?
My Macbook laptop just recently starting having problems and is no longer recognizing the hard drive for whatever reason. Apple can fix it for me by putting in a new HD but I would very much like to save the files that I know are still stored on the old HD. Does anyone have any recommendations on a good mail away or local (to Northen Virginia) data recovery service? How much is this probably going to cost me?
Best reply by Chickster:
Before you go there, see if a trick in a PC will work on this MAC. Open up BIOS,( F1, or DELETE as SOON as you push the power button),hold it, and see if BIOS Setup Utility comes up. Standard CMOS Setup, press Enter, see if your harddrive is listed,…NO? Scroll down with Up/Down arrow keys to Primary HDD, press Enter. Use the Minus,(-), key until AUTO comes up, now hit ESC to return to the main screen, where you started from, press F10, and enter y, press the Enter key. See if operating system boots up. Just want to see if your HD can be saved so you can download info from it, before you get new one. Recuva, try this freeware,(www.recuva.com)
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What is a good data recovery service?
I need to know if this is an easy problem to fix or if there is a cheap way under $500(AU) to get the data back. It is an 80GB hard drive with less than 25GB of data. Would software recovery work? Or is it a mechanical problem?
It is a SATA hard drive out of a laptop. I have attempted to plug it in using an external hard drive casing but nothing was detected… please please help!!
Best reply by nuwa:
post your problem in www.hddguru.com
forum. Some professionals will help u
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Data Recovery. Hard Drive won’t start up, only 2 months old and makes a clicking noise.?
