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 an old XP Desktop that I want to make quicker and for use as solely an Internet browser (not the point of the question).
The question is, can I run the recovery drive (or however you start recovery) and end with a completely erased hard drive but still have the OS and any other vital components remain?
Best reply by Anonymous321:
Everything will become factory-fresh. You’ll have to do all the windows updates all over again and reinstall all your software.
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Can I use the Recovery Drive to completely wipe out my Hard Drive resulting in a “new” computer?
i own a Compaq presario. i really want to install a new hard drive and motherboard. the motherboards kinda old and slow. really want to upgrade and make it faster. the Compaq has a really helpful system recovery that when it boots up and runs threw bios it has the option to press F11 and run the Compaq system recovery. How would i reinstall that when i get a new sata hard drive? I don’t think my warranty is still void since i bought it in 2004. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best reply by no ie8:
get a hard drive cloner program or a disk imaging program and copy the old disk to the new with a disk copy program. most new hard drives come with a utility to copy the old one to the new one if not just go to the hard drive manufacturer’s website and download it. There free
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how to partition a hard drive to system recovery?
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?
