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    • BurkhardB Offline
      Burkhard
      last edited by

      Sad, I feel with you.
      It reminds me to think about my own backup. Headsup πŸ˜‰

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      • R Offline
        remus
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        With regards to the live CD: you download the .iso image, burn it to a CD (on another computer), put it in to the broken computer and set it to boot from the CD. Your computer will then start up off the CD booting your distro of choice (ubuntu is a good one to go for.) You then need to make sure your distro can see the hard drive (as theyre usually formatted in NTFS which ubuntu cant see normally.)

        From there you should be able to look at your hard drive from linux and extract any files you need (as long as it isnt some other issue stopping you from seeing the hard drive.)

        Having said that, if you cant see the drive from a new windows installation booting from a live CD may well not help.

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        • H Offline
          HFM
          last edited by

          ***Good luck [makes me feel like backing up right about now... πŸ˜• ]

          If you're looking for tips: take the HD out of your computer put it in another on, it is the easiest way of getting to your data and most importantly it gives you the option to easily save it on another disk.

          Just my two cents,

          Good luck [again πŸ‘ ]***

          I should really start reading before posting. Didn't know your HD was messed up as in inaccessible 😞

          Hope you get your data back

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          • A Offline
            Aidus
            last edited by

            GetDataBack NTFS and FAT32 can recover files even from a formated drive.

            You can serach for DigWiz MiniPE system recovery disk. That's one powerful tool.

            CPU: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 965
            RAM: OCZ Gold DDR3 1600MHz 12Gb
            Video: Asus Radeon HD4870 X2 2Gb
            Mobo: Asus P6T Deluxe 1366 Intel X58

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            • PixeroP Offline
              Pixero
              last edited by

              Update:

              After trying several file rescue software I only was able to save some jpgs and pdfs. Some wasnt even able to find the drive and others crashed halfway through.
              Last night when I went to bed with yet another software running overnight I felt kind of sad.

              This morning (It's my birthday by the way) I went to see how it had gone and found this app too has crashed.

              I restarted my PC again and was about to install a cd burning app from a USB drive I have to try the Linux Live CD way mentioned above when I realised the PC showed the size of my "crashed" disk. I clicked the icon and it showed all my files was there!!!!!

              Magic or Divine interception? I'm now copying all my files as fast as I can and I'm NOT turning the PC off until I'm done.
              Talk about birthday present. 😍

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              • L Offline
                linea
                last edited by

                Happy Birthday!

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                • R Offline
                  remus
                  last edited by

                  Indeed, have a good one.

                  http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                  • H Offline
                    HFM
                    last edited by

                    Happy birthday indeed!

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                    • A Offline
                      Al66
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                      http://www.spotmau.com

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                      • R Offline
                        remus
                        last edited by

                        personally im always pretty wary of using services like that. If your going to get some tech support i think its a lot less risky to go to a shop who can do it for you.

                        http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                        • broomstickB Offline
                          broomstick
                          last edited by

                          Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but very happy you recovered everything.

                          You know the worst thing that can happen? When you "cut" data from the pc to an external media... and your pc decides it's time to go to sleep..... unrecoverable data loss!!!!

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                          • PixeroP Offline
                            Pixero
                            last edited by

                            Suddenly it was working again and I recovered everything (and backupped everything important). πŸ˜•
                            However yesterday I was about to copy some files I hadnt thought I needed and it was once again inaccessible. 😞
                            I have tried several software to diagnose the disk and some cant access it and others can, and says nothings wrong with it.
                            Eventually I'm going to format the drive but it would be nice to have got everything I need off it first, so any help appreciated.

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                            • PixeroP Offline
                              Pixero
                              last edited by

                              Interesting find:
                              When I turn off UAC (User account control) completely in Vista I can once again access the drive. πŸ˜•

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