Archive for the 'hard drive recovery' Category

Are hard drive recovery centers safe ?

I recently fried my hard drive. Im thinking about using a data recovery center. The drive i need recovered has alot of unpublished and un-copyrighted material that i have created such as screenplays and manuscripts. Im worried that the company having access to these will steal them during the recovery and with no backup on [...]

What will happen if I delete everything on my "Recovery" hard drive?

What will happen if i just highlight it all and hit delete? Is there a better way to wipe it? Will it do something to my computer?
Thanks,
Matt
The recovery hard drive is actually a partition in the main hard drive and is there so
you will be able to recover Windows back to the factory settings (using [...]

How do I use the recovery partition from one hard drive on a new replacement hard drive?

I have a strange issue. I have a Compaq laptop, and when I test the hard drive through the BIOS, it is returning a failure error. The recovery partition is on this hard drive, and the drive is still accessible and usable for the most part. How can I replace the hard [...]

How do I use the recovery partition from one hard drive on a new replacement hard drive?

I have a strange issue. I have a Compaq laptop, and when I test the hard drive through the BIOS, it is returning a failure error. The recovery partition is on this hard drive, and the drive is still accessible and usable for the most part. How can I replace the hard [...]

Can I copy files to an external hard drive using the recovery console?

Why you ask? well my laptop (running xp) has kinda died on me and I have the restore disc but don’t want to lose any uni files. I can gain access to recovery console (though not too sure how to use it!) and also not exactly sure of what ALL the files are called. is [...]

How much should I be charging for hard drive recovery service?

Should I charge per hr, flat fee etc? Thanks
If you have to ask that question, I doubt if you’re qualified to recover a hard drive.

Can I repair the Hard drive using a sony vaio recovery cd?

I hv Sony vaio notebook.Recently when I start it it shows only blue screen and nothing else.I hv a recovery CD .I want to know whether i can repair my hard drive (if it has crashed) including saving all my data using recover cd?
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Hard drive recovery…10pts?

A few years ago my maxtor daimond plus 9 250gb hard drive was left inside my computer running and this girl i know was using it while i was
away. She said there was some smoke coming from it and then the
computer just shut off.
I was mad, I took out the hard drive and seems on [...]

what hard drive recovery software should I use/buy?

my hard drive became corrupted, i downloaded stellar pheonix and it recognised my lost files, it will cost me $99 (£60) to buy, should i go for this one or another?
all the free ones dont find all my files
thanks for your answers! yes i tried recover, it didnt see half the files that phoenix did, [...]

What is a recovery drive for? Is it just like my regular hard-drive? How is it different?

What is the recovery drive(on my PC it is "D") for?
The "Recovery" drive takes the place of the set of System Restore Disks that used to be supplied with a computer in case the operating system had to be reinstalled after a system crash. It is a partition of the hard drive reserved exclusively for [...]