Restore My Files : Information & Data Recovery

I re-installed windows and lost all programs and files. However they are now saved in c drive along with HDD recovery in D Drive . How do i launch these programs from the c or d drives?
I have a toshiba l300 laptop.

Most likely, you boot up and choose the recovery instead of windows to boot, and then it will unpack itself

when your laptop boots, you may temporarily see a menu for windows, or the recovery partition, although it may be set to move straight into windows without waiting for an answer. All i could suggest for that is to keep an eye out when you boot, and if you do see it, quickly use the arrow keys to choose it.

According to a toshiba forum, looks you might need a CD that came with your laptop to activate the recovery partition, have a look for one, or download a replacement!

Hope this was of remote help

I need to recover data from my My Book external hard drive.. what is the best free data recovery software out there

Thanks in advance

Here are the Top 3 Free Data Recovery Software introduction. It may help you recover data from your external hard drive.
http://www.disk-utilities.com/articles/make-use-of-free-data-recovery-software.html

My toshiba laptops fan burnt out which resulted the death of my hard drive. I need a company that will not hurt my pockets too bad. I know that I need a level 2 or level 3 recovery, and as always thanks in advance

RECUVA.com—its free–and works great

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.

Hello,

I have a slightly stupid question to ask. One of our staff is having persistent issues with what seems to be a corrupt installation of Windows XP. We wanted to use an HDD imaging program to backup all files, settings and 3rd party software. My only concern is that since there are issues with the current XP installation, if we take an image now, would those issues return after the image is loaded on another PC? Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Max

do a repair with the original disc 1st…

I have a toshiba and tried the out of box option first but my system kept freezing so I tried the next option but decided I didn’t wanna wait that long! Ugh bad idea…now it says no bootable device insert boot disk. Doesn’t let me even go to the F8 options now…

I don’t have a vista cd bcuz my laptop came with none. I ordered a copy of windows hdd recovery and vista but how am I supposed to install it without the product key? Where do I find this now?

Try this key. TCV33-CH82D-VC8KY-4YW8F-3VKH

My friend has a Dell Dimension 8400 Desktop computer and he was having some random electrical problems. The computer has two hard drives running a RAID 1 array (software not hardware). The HDD’s use SATA cables. Long story short, I got a similar dell power supply and replaced the bad one with the good one to make sure its the PSU, which solved the original problem.

However, when I was cabling the new power supply I did not notice that the SATA cable for the 2nd hard drive came loose from its connection to the motherboard. I booted it up and his Intel Raid Utility freaked out and messed up the array. The disk was labeled as a non-raid member disk. I could not boot into windows. This is the problem I have now.

I did some searching around a found a posting with an email from an Intel support tech that gave me some step by step directions. Following the directions, I used the array utility to remove the RAID array. Both disk are now listed as non-member disks. After a reboot, I got a error saying "Bad PBR". Did some searching on that, and it turns out to be a messed up boot record, which makes sense to me. I used the recovery disk to repair it from command prompt (FIXBOOT). It could not find any installation, so I used FIXMBR in stead. Now, after a reboot, I get a different error saying "Error Loading Operating System."
This is where I am at now. Should I re-create the RAID array using the utility? What should I do?

Both disks are listed as 150 GB. I don’t think the data was erased, but I am stuck. Any ideas/suggestions that avoid data loss would be helpful. Thanks!

1. you are right that data was erased.reinstall the operating system and then use data recovery softwa to get back lost data on your hard drive. here you can download one: http://www.disk-utilities.com/system-restore/

2. How to avoid data loss?First, backup the important data is relly important, but sometimes you may forget to do that. I know a really good software named Wondershare Time Shuttle, it can protect your operating system from virus, data loss,etc. It can creat over 1000 snapshots, if you suffer from computer crash like what you experienced, you can restore your system and data from snapshots. what’s more, there snapshots won’t take too much space of your hard drive. You can download a trial version here, http://www.disk-utilities.com/system-restore/ , you should notice that it’s a little complicated to install it, so, if you want to install it and have a try, you’d better comply with the user-guide article.

Good luck.

I’ve used 3 so far. I thought they were legit and I could get my pictures/videos back that were deleted without my consent after the laptop got reformatted. But for all three, you have to register and pay to get the whole job done. I obviously don’t want to do that. Is there a program I could down load for free, no registering or anything that will get my files back? Please, any suggestions would be a great help.

Personally I do not believe in free software as it will end up messing my computer with virus and spywares. So what I look for is cheap and good software. For recovery software, I bough one before, cost me 29 bucks but working very well, and good thing is that it’s one time payment and then it allows me to use forever. Take a look if you do not mind pay 29 bucks to get back your pictures.
http://www.asoftech.com/apr/

I have a raid 0 computer. I defraged my computer with a bad sector on one of the hard drives. I now need to recover some data.

Can i recover data by plugging one HD at a time into a 2.5" HD enclosure and having another computer take the data off it?

Sure providing the drive is still functional and the data you are looking for isnt corrupt

my old computer was pretty old (2001/2 I think) it had a recovery partition which I used to reformat the hard-drive of my old computer to re-install windows XP many times, If I were to get a new computer without an OS, would it be possible to use that recovery partition on a completely new setup (old one went out the window >.<)

Very unlikely. Recovery partitions typically include an operating system pre-packaged with the drivers and software intended to run the system they were delivered with. ie: your old computer.

If you were to perform the recovery on a new system with completely different hardware, it is likely that it won’t even boot into Windows at all. You could get lucky of course, it may just boot. And if it does, it would only be a matter of running the Driver disk that comes with the new system, once you have Windows up and running. This might just get it going for you.

I wouldn’t bet on it, given the age of the old system, it is not going to have even one driver/hardware component that is similar to the new system. The only way to get this to work would be if the recovery process asks you each step of the way, giving you the option to NOT install the drivers. This would give you just a clean install of Windows and it would then work almost perfectly, after you run the new system driver disk of course.

And in case you’re wondering, none of this should harm your new system. Just remember to do a full format of the hard drive after it fails to be sure it’s clean, ready for a new OS to be installed.

Worth a try I guess. Just an hour out of your life if it fails

Good luck.