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rstdio is a good recovery software, it recovers delete stuff(you be amazed), and can copy to second hdd with the full version. On the herins boot cd were hdd recovery and fixing tools last time I checked they might beable to repair it.
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ive gotten my laptop to start, using the R-studio emergency demo 5, but i dont know how to get my machine bootable again, or how to recover the corrupted boot files...
i do have that program looking at "/boot/BCD" at the moment, and im saving it to the USB media, but i dont know what to do after that.
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Silly question, why don't you just boot some rescue linux distribution from USB, copy the data files to it and put a new HD into the laptop and reinstall all your shit?
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Pinky's Brain wrote ...
Silly question, why don't you just boot some rescue linux distribution from USB, copy the data files to it and put a new HD into the laptop and reinstall all your shit?
Im not as good as the rest of you with the computing devices. the most immeadiate problem is that i cant boot a single HD laptop, other wise id have solved this problem long ago, i even have the new HD ready to go.
i guess ill try this, but my rescue partition is on the questionable drive... and it has no DVD palyer so i didnt make rescue disks independent of the drive in question... i do have a recent backup using the windows tool to a USB harddrive, but it will only recover to the laptop its made from, i think. If i swap out the bad SATA HD for my new SATA one, how will the backup file be activated from the USB HD?
i guess i should have bought one of the USB 16 GB drives and made the start up disk on there, 3 years ago. silliy me.
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Personally I wouldn't bother with a rescue disk, I'd get my windows license key (bottom of the device or in the battery compartment) and install a new windows (how exactly depends on the version of windows you run, for windows 7 Microsoft has tools to allow it to install from USB).
Then reinstall all your shit and copy your data files (usually a bit of a chore as far as email is concerned but not impossible).
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Pinky's Brain wrote ...
Personally I wouldn't bother with a rescue disk, I'd get my windows license key (bottom of the device or in the battery compartment) and install a new windows (how exactly depends on the version of windows you run, for windows 7 Microsoft has tools to allow it to install from USB).
Then reinstall all your shit and copy your data files (usually a bit of a chore as far as email is concerned but not impossible).
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Over the years I have found that once a hard disk develops bad sectors (CRC = Cyclic Redundancy Check, Wikipedia ) you'd better quickly back up your data.
Minute surface damage of the disks causes scratches which release debris that damagesall of the heads and disks and very quickly the drive becomes unusable. I suggest that you follow the advice about getting a new HDD !
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