Restore My Files : Information & Data Recovery

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 when you download something, make sure your downloading it to you C: drive. You do not want to mess with the recovery drive since if something ever goes wrong then you wont be able to reformat using the onboard recovery tool. Also make sure anything your installing goes to your C: drive not your D: drive

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 a destructive recovery meaning that all files and data are deleted and the computer is fresh and new like out of the box. but i do not know how to do it without the cd and i cannot make the cds from my computer

You have no choice but to get a WIndows CD. Either borrow a XP cd from a friend and use your own license key (perfectly legal) or wait until Windows 7 comes out in October and buy a copy.

There is no other choice.

PS. If you borrow an XP CD make sure it matches your version:

XP Home
XP Professional

If you XP Media Center edition then you should have a restore partition because this is never supplied on CD.

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 shit on my harddrive and i dont wont any of it to be wiped. i can open up command prompt through system recoveery if that helps PLLEAAASSEEE HELLPPP

reboot means to restart your computer
are your sure thats what it says?

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 created a partition, or deleted a partition. In order for an operating system to see/use your hard drive, the entire thing has to be formatted. Any part that isn’t, is not usable by the operating system.

Dumb-ass deleted a file from my hard-drive and i have recovery-disks i made when i got the computer. Can i restore the file with the help of my recovery-disks?

Maybe. The recovery discs should put your system back to brand new – before you wrote any documents or set your email. Was the file on your computer then? Do you mind missing your own documents, tunes, and pictures?

If the file was part of the operating system, try Start, Run

SFC Scannow

That will replace any important system files that have gone wonky or missing.

The best way to do this is to partition your HDD (hard drive) which pretty much means setting off a little bit of room that you computer recognizes as where it should keep your data safe

After doing that you will need to make an image of your hard drive (which is in the .ISO) format.

If you are a little confused dont worry there is a program that can do it all for you for free, check out this website:

http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml

This will successfully auto back up your data to keep it safe for another time.

The only problem that you run into is not having enough room to do the backup in this case i would recommend buying an external hard drive off this website:

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=414&name=External-Hard-Drives

If you decide to buy one feel free to contact me with any questions, my contact info is below and i would be happy to help you.

I do not have a original vista cd it was preinstalled. laptop will not boot
bootmgr missing, tried all fixes. Hopefully new harddrive will fix the problem but I do not have an os

No, not unless the new one is exactly like the old one.

Hi
My friends got acer 5315 , we tried to format the harddrive using recovery acer cd, but when we put the cd into cdrom, it could not read the cd, i try to put Hiren’s BootCD 9.8 – www.hiren.info it did not read it, i enable f12 there wasn’t any thing that you could say cdrom , only boot from hard drive i searched most places on the internet, how can i do it,

did you set the boot sequence to boot from cd/dvd first in the bios settings….make sure the cd is in the try ready first when setting the boot sequence, finally press F10 to save and exit the settings

I plugged in my Seagate external harddrive with the wrong power source and to make a long story short it no longer works. The drive I think is fine but the power source was burned up. Is there anything I can do to get it to work for long enough to transfer my information?

youd have to go buy a new power supply first. if you match the adapter size and the voltage, you can just get one of those interchangable ones from walmart or something, theyll work fine.
if it still doesnt work with the new power supply, you shorted out the drive.

I tried to format the harddrive but it says it is not found and i get no operating system found error on startup. should I buy a new hard drive? Or is there something else I can do?

Sounds like your boot strapper is corrupt, or your hard drive not correctly installed, try the boot disk that matches your OS