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brooa
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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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sam-o
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obviously your best bet (long term) would be finding a better OS (w7?)
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djfred
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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! |
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Sinai Sound
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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
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hmaudio
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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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