Half of my laptop (Sony Vaio NW) harddrive is full, i want to completely format the hard drive and, basically, start over. However i was wondering 3 things.
1. if i make recovery disks, will i be able to format the harddrive, put the recovery disks i made in, and boot the computer, then reinstall the [...]
I restored my computer recently and backed up all my data on an external harddrive. i dumped all my files abck onto my computer after i re-installed windows, but now im at a loss of how to re-install programs i had installed before system recovery. mainly speaking, i need to re-install my fl studios program, [...]
Ive got a few Inspiron 1525 computers. They both have recovery partitions, but only one computer will recognize that there is one. I switched the OS harddrives and then the other computer then recognizes the partiton. What file needs to be on the OS hardrive to recognize that there is a recovery harddrive?
Sounds like the [...]
I heard some body said no matter you formatted your HDD ,it would still have residue left in your HDD.
You have two choices: Try an app named:
Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 5.3
Write Zeros to the HDD "Format C:\Replace data w\_Fill_000000000000000"
Please note: what accurs is, the HDD formated first then, its filled with random data (knowed [...]
My Western Digital external started to not be reconized on my computers and I want to try to see if there are any free programs or software to help this out. I prefer not to send it into data recovery companies yet because I heard that it is expensive, but I have about 150 GB [...]
What do you guys think could cause this and what can I try to fix it? I’m helping out a friend and right now his harddrive (when put into my pc cause his nolonger works) comes up with the safe mode or normal windows options in DOS. Anything I choose causes the computer to reboot. [...]
When I reformated my harddrive, I tried to redownload java and other applications. it said there was a lack of disk space on my recovery drive. I dont want to delete anything on it because Im afraid my computer won’t work if I do so.
Im assuming you have windows. What you need to do [...]
I want to do a destructive recovery but cannot do so because i do not have the windows cd that came with computer. i also can not find a recovery section on the harddrive. i know that recovery console and sytsten recovery are 2 seperate things. what i plan to do is do [...]
i dont no what happened but i turn on my laptop and i cant get past system recovery none of the options will work and the only one left is to totally reboot my hardrive, i was wondering if there is a way to backup my harddrive onto my external because i got alot of [...]
regularly, i have a 160 gig hard drive on my PC. I just reformatted it using vista recovery disks and now it is saying my hard drive can only hold 40 gigs. Does anyone know why this is happening?
Well obviously you didnt reformat the whole thing. Maybe you reformatted only a partition, you [...]
