Just today a book fell on my laptop and now when i turn it on it tells me that the internal hard drive disk cannot be found. i contected dell and they referred me to a professional compay but they estimated about 500-1700 for recovery. i was wondering if anyone knew of a method that might work without sending it to the professionals? someone i know mentioned a linux live cd. what is that and what would that do? thanks
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My friend has an Acer laptop that won’t boot. Some reason ALT F10 isn’t working. If I boot to a live linux disk, can I get the reovery manager to run to make the CD’s? By the way, he can’t boot becuase of an NTLDR is missing. I have speant a lot of time trying to fix this. So I need the disks or a possible fix.
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My girlfriend’s laptop has been experiencing some issues. It BSoD’d her, crashed, and kept auto-restarting to the boot choices menu. No matter what option was picked, it would just auto-restart to the menu after the Windows splash screen. She doesn’t have an XP cd, since they don’t usually come with HP laptops. We tried the built in recovery, but it crashed in the middle of repartitioning the hard drive, and now each time it is booted up, it can get to BIOS and boot settings, but after that, the error message that Windows root/system32@/hal.dll is corrupted or missing and needs replaced. Well, we can’t do much to it without the XP cd. Almost every solution online requires the disc. No other machine to hook it up to. No extra hd. Any help or ideas? I thought about recovery LiveCD’s and smaller Linux distros/utilities, but since I don’t live close by, I need something she can learn to do on her own(she isn’t very computer savvy).
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Hello, this is what happened (im running on a laptop)
-windows xp crashed (cant fix it)
- cant reinstall windows in another folder
all I want, is to recover my files, is there any way I can copy files in to my external hardrive from DOS? or anytype of connection from my crashed computer, to this other computer and send files through a USB cable or firewire??
or any live linux cd (not dvd) that will allow me to read my windows NTFS files, and then burn them into a cd?
i dunno… any ideas anyone? thanks!
thanks
thank you, but this computer is a laptop, and I think it will be hard to remove the hard rive just to put it in an enclousre dont you think?
Someone please can help me how to recover my data from a hard disk with a partition ntfs filesystem to I can’t have access. The hard disk is with 2 primary partitions, the first is a system recovery and the second is where is installed de windows xp and . I tried to mount the C disk using a linux live cd but an input output error appear. Also with some recovery utilities I can’t get results.
I can use the system recovery for restore my windows but this proccess will format the disk and I want recover some important data before.
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