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My computer crashed :(

So Monday night my comptuer crashed. The last time I did a backup of my entire hard-drive was back in August. So I've lost 4 months worth of pictures, documents, mp3s...everything

The mp3s I don't care as much about...but being a picture whore I've lost emense amounts of pictures, many of which I can't get back. It'll take me a long time to get pictures back from Labour of Love etc (having to sort through review threads), but I don't post all of my pictures on the internet, and thus I've lost a lot of personal pictures...many of which I was going to use to make a scrapbook with.

Even worse are my word documents. I've done 6 essay's/major assignments so far this year and I've lost all of my work. Those 6 are handed in, but it's always important to keep copies of everything. Continuing in bad news, I stayed home this weekend to work on 2 major final assigments...I love ALL of that data

My dad is a comptuer whiz, and together with Cale they've tried everything under the sun, but can't get my data back. I was surprised b/c usually a miracle happens and my dad always gets my stuff back. He gave me a brief lecture on how I should use the USB pen drive and the CD-RWs he gave me to back up my newest data everyday, even if I don't do master backups of my hard drive as frequently. I definatly learned my lesson.

I'm so despressed

Have any of your computer's crashed that resulted in you losing a lot of significant data? Not just mp3s and silly things you can get back.

le sigh

You don't need to be so sad you can get them back. Simply dig out your hard drive and get an enclosure for it. I can almost guarantee you can get all your files...unless your hard drive crashed in which case you're in a pickle.

My guess though is that it wasn't the hard drive.

The enclosures connect with a USB to any computer.

Cheers!

Wow cale, im so unimpressed with your comp skills right now

even in extreme conditions u could install a botched version of windows right overtop of the old corrupt one and rescue the files onto cd

edit: unless your harddrive stopped working completely then you might be screwed without going to a data recovery place

is the hard drive making some weird noises? : yes, you're fucked unless you fork 300$++ for some specialized help.

if not, you can use a program called GetBackData which saved my ass more than a few times.

describe crashed?

bummed hard drive? bummed Windows?

Has the drive been formatted yet? Are you still using the same hard drive?

About a year ago my external hard drive (home to all my music) crapped out and after a format, I was able to recover the data with

http://download.pcinspector.de/pci_filerecovery.exe

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Originally posted by starsearcher My guess though is that it wasn't the hard drive.

+1 .....geeeze cale, chance to be a hero and u blow it.....tisk tisk.

Sorry...I should have noted...the hard drive is fucked. My dad has put it in a number of other computers and the computer won't even recognize it. It says that it needs to be formatted and asks if I want to format it.

When it first happened. MSN froze and I couldn't even shut down my computer so I pressed the restart button. It came up saying it couldn't access the boot record and to press control alt delete to restart. Cale thought it was originally a problem with the boot record and came up with a couple ways to fix that...i.e. by putting the original Windows XP cd in and starting up in recovery mode and then putting in some password.

However, we tried that and we couldn't get it to start up period. It kept locking up. That's when my dad tried putting the hard drive in another comptuer.

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Originally posted by Matt Has the drive been formatted yet? Are you still using the same hard drive?

The drive hasn't been formatted yet. My dad's still working on it on another computer. He gave me a different hard drive to work off of temporarily. (Slow as fuck!)

It's defniatly the hard drive though...not the operating system like we had originally thought.

is it making weird noises?

booo that sucks HARD babe

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Originally posted by malek is it making weird noises?

I'm not at home...but not that I recall.

The lights were on too saying that the computer was diong stuff...but it would take forever and either lock up or just say nothing was on the hard drive.

But no wierd noises that I ermember.

hmmmmmm.
make new partion on free space and install new version of windows there?

Mine crashed a month ago. I lost everything I had! The HD is messed up. I even tried to re-format it but it won't let me!

Anyone have an ideas what I can do? or Do i need to get a new HD? Everytime I put in the backup CDs, i can hear the HD spinning pretty hard.

Luckily I bought a new Laptop 2 weeks before so I transfered most things over, but not all!

But my laptop has crashed on me 3 times earlier, and it was due to a bug in SP2 where windows would load properly, it would keep restarting every 30 seconds, so I was forced to format.

I've lost so many pictures over the years

Oh well, what can you do.

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Originally posted by Pett hmmmmmm. make new partion on free space and install new version of windows there?

hell no.




just don't touch that drive, don't do anything on it before using GetBackData.

you will get all your stuff in a couple of hours.

Ask Cale to get from his pirates sources

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Originally posted by exstasie Mine crashed a month ago. I lost everything I had! The HD is messed up. I even tried to re-format it but it won't let me! Anyone have an ideas what I can do? or Do i need to get a new HD? Everytime I put in the backup CDs, i can hear the HD spinning pretty hard. Luckily I bought a new Laptop 2 weeks before so I transfered most things over, but not all! But my laptop has crashed on me 3 times earlier, and it was due to a bug in SP2 where windows would load properly, it would keep restarting every 30 seconds, so I was forced to format. I've lost so many pictures over the years Oh well, what can you do.

if its under warranty send it to the company, if not, just throw it in the garbage, its useless.

OK...now you're in a pickle! I'm sure there's a solution

Not enough details to diagnose the hard drive problem, like Malek said. Sam did make a good suggestion that has saved me and others. Find another identical working hard drive, right down to the specifica model, and find a used one on tor.forsale.computers or craigslist. You can replace the enclosure, however depending on if there was any rattling beforehand, you may just need to swap the circuit board on the HD, which is a lot easier.

Store your photos with an online photo hoster and then you can avoid this type of disappointment.

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Originally posted by malek if its under warranty send it to the company, if not, just throw it in the garbage, its useless.

Yeah, its a 4 year old PC. No warranty. I was hoping there was something I could to make it work. It still runs decently. It was a top of the line Laptop ... 4 years ago haha.

But I wouldn't mind using just for random stuff. I bought a Mac and would like to have windows or something (I am debating whether or not to virtually run windows on my Mac)...

I put everything like pics, and music in D: drive which is teh secondary drive.. my comp has crashed way too many times but whatever i keep in D: drive or my alternative drive usually stays.

Get Hiren's Boot CD from one of the links here

In a perfect world before you do any of the stuff below you would have a spare empty hard drive and you'duse Norton Ghost to do a sector-sector copy (with ignore-errors checked)

From the way I understand it - you're not looking to 'undelete' anything (since nothing was deleted) - but more so the boot record and/or Master File Table is messed up and you can't get to the files that are actually still there.

Key utils to try from that boot CD above:

HDAT2 4.5.2
main function is testing and repair (regenerates) bad sectors for detected devices
^^ works miracles, I've brought things back from bad sector grave with this - even if it took 5 days to run.

HDD Regenerator 1.51
to recover a bad hard drive
^worth a shot too

After doing that, try booting from the XP CD into the Windows Recovery Console to see if it can even see the XP installation will be worth your while - especially if you had any of the messages as seen here

sorry to hear, last year my laptop crashed and with it went all my music and my lecture notes.

hope you can recover everything that you need

Incases like this i'm glad i have my linux box, drop the HD into the machine mount the drive recover the data and laugh

PS know any unix nerds?

PSS. You can also use NTBackup (Free win windows) and schedule daily INCREMENTAL backups of say ur my documents. thats what i do

Dance! Even if it won't recover your data, it'll sure make you feel better.

Oh and...

+1, except the cases is all the time

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Originally posted by djtransid Incases like this i'm glad i have my linux box, drop the HD into the machine mount the drive recover the data and laugh PS know any unix nerds? PSS. You can also use NTBackup (Free win windows) and schedule daily INCREMENTAL backups of say ur my documents. thats what i do

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker Store your photos with an online photo hoster and then you can avoid this type of disappointment.

I have some of my photos backed up on Facebook....but there are some choice photos that I'd rather not put up on the internet....haha

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