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If i create a recovery disk, am i then able to format my harddrive, and use the disk to reinstall?

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:21:38 +0000

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 Windows Vista?

2. I used an upgrade disk to Windows 7 on the laptop, will the recovery disks make a recovery of the upgrade to 7 or the original vista on the laptop?

3. will i be able to use my windows 7 upgrade after i have recovered the disk onto the laptop?

1. Yes
2. recovery will recover whatever is on the disk. Since your computer comes with vista and you upgraded to windows 7 yourself, it will reinstall vista.
3. Yes i think you can, since it’s an independent upgrade

How do i re-install programs after a system recovery?

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:45:37 +0000

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, how do i go about doing this?

You have to go to your computers operating system website e.g. dell.com. Download all the needed programs onto another computer. When it says save or run when you download something click save and save somewhere. Download everything you need and drag it to your external hdd and then plug into your other computer and drag somewheres and doubleclick to install.

What file is needed for a dell inspiron to recognize 1525 recovery partition?

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:39:00 +0000

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 recovery partition is corrupt. It isn’t one specific file. The inspiron 1525 came with Disc’s thught if I remember rightly, at least the ones I bought here in the UK did.

If i have formatted my HARDDRIVE ,could others still can recovery my files? ?

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:02:30 +0000

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 as writting ZERO’s to HDD)
Then, it formats it again…
that makes data unrecoverable.
http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/dlgdiag11.zip

It’s free by the way.

2) Destroy it! Just place the HDD in a Turkey pot (make sure the HDD is rapped in aluminum foil to reduce smell and, finally place the pot in the oven set it to 2 Hours and, HDD will be creamated. Hope it helps.

external harddrive is not being reconized, is there a free program or software to help detect whats wrong?

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:01:40 +0000

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 of data I need. Very important documents for my graphic arts projects. Thanks.

Try different USB port on your computer on your computer or try another USB cable. If those don’t work then unfortunately you are SOL unless you have backup or can spring for the recovery fee or you have backups in the future I recommend using spider oak (see the link bellow) to create extra back ups.

Friend’s harddrive forcing restart.?

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:56:29 +0000

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. He wants me to save the files on the harddrive so anybody know any good freeware harddrive recovery programs or something?
I took out my harddrive and am just using his as primary. i’ll try doing slave if it can.

You will never be able to successfully boot the OS of his hard drive on your PC because each computer has a different and unique hardware ID. His OS will keep on looking for his computer’s ID.

Just connect it as a slave and boot from your original hard drive then copy his data to your hard drive. Once you have copied his files, check his hard drive for errors. This can be done under Tools tab of the Drive Properties.

After checking for errors, you can put his hard drive back to his computer and reinstall the operating system. You may also want to reformat the drive prior to the re-installation so you can start clean.

Meanwhile, it is also a good practice to have 2 separate partitions on a hard drive: one for the operating system and programs and the other for data. This way, if something goes wrong with the operating system and you need to reformat, your data will not be affected.

How do I reduce the amount of memory on my RECOVERY D: Drive?

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:41:25 +0000

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

How to do destructive recovery on Windows xp?

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:24:51 +0000

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.

LAPTOP IN SYSTEM RECOVERY CAN I BACKUP HARDDRIVE?

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:23:35 +0000

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?

why would my harddrive be smaller after reformatting vista?

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:17:37 +0000

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.