Vista - Major crash!

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check out hirens boot cd and try the numerous tools on there and if all else fails clone the drive to an external and try then.

after that wipe vista off the face off the earth and go to w7 ;)

Edited by brooa - 03 February 2012 at 10:58pm

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brooa Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Registered User Joined: 23 August 2011 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 162	Post Options Post Reply Quote brooa Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 February 2012 at 10:57pm
	check out hirens boot cd and try the numerous tools on there and if all else fails clone the drive to an external and try then. after that wipe vista off the face off the earth and go to w7 ;) Edited by brooa - 03 February 2012 at 10:58pm

sam-o Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Registered User Joined: 08 February 2012 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote sam-o Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 February 2012 at 12:04pm
	obviously your best bet (long term) would be finding a better OS (w7?)

djfred Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Registered User Joined: 08 May 2010 Location: Salford Status: Offline Points: 192	Post Options Post Reply Quote djfred Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 February 2012 at 5:50pm
	the problem is most likely the filesystem contained within the partition, than the partition itself. with laptops they are easily dropped and if the disk is being used at the time it can result in catastrophic failure. chkdsk is the most reliable method for fixing an NTFS partition if physical damage has not occured (ie, it will repair a corrupt filesystem). stick the chkdsk out, theres a flag you can set to say yes to all questions. failing that you can either try kyles method (which would probably result in a load of files with no names) or send off for expensive data recovery. good luck!

Sinai Sound Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Young Croc Joined: 09 November 2009 Location: Sheffield Status: Offline Points: 631	Post Options Post Reply Quote Sinai Sound Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 February 2012 at 8:06pm
	I've successfully used a piece of software called "getdataback" to recover data from a poorly hard disk, including one today that appeared in my computer and wanted to be formatted This piece of software managed to recover the data I required

hmaudio Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 03 April 2009 Location: Nottingham Status: Offline Points: 3844	Post Options Post Reply Quote hmaudio Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 April 2012 at 9:05pm
	Did you check the hdd for bad sectors etc, and one thing you could do if it was not starting up blue screening is trying a recovery from vista cd, but dont press are when it comes up recovery its abit further along in the setup, and it it rewrites the operating system files and leaves all your files intact.
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