gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
sounds like it's already happened
Guin will probably have to order a recovery disc from HP.
Odd that. Our corporate ones come with a bunch of CDs I have to chuck away each time.
Help! Data recovery assistance required
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Guin will probably have to order a recovery disc from HP.
Odd that. Our corporate ones come with a bunch of CDs I have to chuck away each time.
bmd
Island in the stream.
I agree that this would be best carried out by someone who has accidentally deleted all their most precious files before and consequently is very careful but if you have a look at Disk Director it does have a lot of checks on it and then you have to finalise everything and then press another button to carry out what you've chosen. And then it can get it back if you decide you've done that wrong.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
[grave]You are meddling with powers you cannot possibly comprehend[/grave]
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
That http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ does sound like the solution! I wonder if any of the attendees at the Bring Your Own Dish tomorrow, which is at my house, would have the geekiness to run it for me....
You don't fancy coming to it, do you, Crispy?
Are my services not good enough for you?
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Are my services not good enough for you?
Are you coming this evening? Are you well geeky?
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I agree. I am not going to try it myself. I am awaiting a geek visit from someone. I am not sure it is possible to make it any worse than it already is, though.
Feel free to come round - I have just made bread and vol au vents and will give extra champagne to any geek who fixes it for me!
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
I'm not a geek sorry to disappoint.
I do have 30 years of computing experience, degree in Computer Science and have been a senior IT pro for 10 years. I build my own PC's.
I just thought I'd help out and practice my cooking at the same time.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Sorry, but how is that not a geek?
Get yourself round here - I can't drink until I have a guest. It's the law!
audiotech
wav, aiff, mp3, ogg, flac
Am I too late? 
I had a similar problem and after some reading placed a copy of ntldr as well as ntdetect in the root directory where the OS is and the problem of windows not booting was solved.
Appears I had corrupted the boot sector of XP when I installed it as a dual boot with Vista on a laptop.
I had a similar problem and after some reading placed a copy of ntldr as well as ntdetect in the root directory where the OS is and the problem of windows not booting was solved.
Appears I had corrupted the boot sector of XP when I installed it as a dual boot with Vista on a laptop.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
My hard disk has now left home, and is on its way to Sunray's house where, hopefully, he will be able to recover some data and, maybe, fix it for me.
Sometimes Urban is a wonderful place
Sometimes Urban is a wonderful place
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Disk is fine.
Main partition was reformatted as part of the HP full system rebuild that was accidentally started. Fortunately only 1 file was copied onto the reformatted disk.
Recovery partition is still intact. Can use that to restore the machine.
Using my favourite recovery tool, GetDataBack its looking quite good. Seems to have found a lot of data. I'm copying the entire disk to one of my empty hard disks, its taking ages, hours so far for 3/4 done.
That's going to need some trawling through because the recovery means its not in the same way that it was on the hard disk. What your going to need to do is to bring the PC to mine. I can put the disk back, then rebuild the PC using the restore partition and then when that is done copy all the disk information back onto it or some other storage like that portable hard disk you had?
Guineveretoo was complaining about getting the occasional chkdsk run at boot. I'm tempted to say that there is something wrong here. I never get that and I have 5 disks in my machine. Disk is unusually hot, but that's not necessarily an indicator of anything.
eta: Completed. Looking very good. I reckon to a substantial portion back, perhaps everything. I can't tell though you'd need to confirm.
Main partition was reformatted as part of the HP full system rebuild that was accidentally started. Fortunately only 1 file was copied onto the reformatted disk.
Recovery partition is still intact. Can use that to restore the machine.
Using my favourite recovery tool, GetDataBack its looking quite good. Seems to have found a lot of data. I'm copying the entire disk to one of my empty hard disks, its taking ages, hours so far for 3/4 done.
That's going to need some trawling through because the recovery means its not in the same way that it was on the hard disk. What your going to need to do is to bring the PC to mine. I can put the disk back, then rebuild the PC using the restore partition and then when that is done copy all the disk information back onto it or some other storage like that portable hard disk you had?
Guineveretoo was complaining about getting the occasional chkdsk run at boot. I'm tempted to say that there is something wrong here. I never get that and I have 5 disks in my machine. Disk is unusually hot, but that's not necessarily an indicator of anything.
eta: Completed. Looking very good. I reckon to a substantial portion back, perhaps everything. I can't tell though you'd need to confirm.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
That's fantastic! You are a star!
The only way I could get the body (I don't know the technical term for it, but I meant the computer, rather than any other body!
) to you, is to drive over some time. I will try and find time this week. Perhaps you can PM me to tell me when would be good for you?
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Right, I am now at the next stage of recovery, having had to send away for the recovery disks (because HP reckons you don't need them to be separate! Ha!) from Hungary (!). I have copied all the data from the computer to an external hard drive, and have reformatted this drive. There are now lots of things I need to do, though, which includes tracking down the registration stuff from all the software I had on the old pc. To do this, I need to see if I can get back the old emails in Outlook Express, which, presumably, will have the emails which were sent to me at the time the various software was registered.
This was relatively easy when I set up this computer originally, as the old computer had Outlook Express set up, and I was able to find the necessary files quite easily. Now, of course, I have no idea what to do, or what to look for. I know there is a .pst file, and I have found several of those, but I don't know what to do then, or whether that is, in fact, the old emails (it doesn't seem very big).
Any advice?
I need to reinstall zonealarm virus checker, which was registered and for which I had paid - I didn't get disks for that, because it was done online and I then had to register it with this email I had....
This was relatively easy when I set up this computer originally, as the old computer had Outlook Express set up, and I was able to find the necessary files quite easily. Now, of course, I have no idea what to do, or what to look for. I know there is a .pst file, and I have found several of those, but I don't know what to do then, or whether that is, in fact, the old emails (it doesn't seem very big).
Any advice?
I need to reinstall zonealarm virus checker, which was registered and for which I had paid - I didn't get disks for that, because it was done online and I then had to register it with this email I had....
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Well, everything on my new disk is okay, but I never did find the old Outlook Express inbox, and I actually really need it, because I have got to track down some important emails.
Everything from my old disk which can be saved is (hopefully) saved, but some of it has got odd names. Can anyone advise me as to the type of file I should be looking for, to find my old emails, and also the same for my old Outlook address book?
Everything from my old disk which can be saved is (hopefully) saved, but some of it has got odd names. Can anyone advise me as to the type of file I should be looking for, to find my old emails, and also the same for my old Outlook address book?
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Er, okay. I will do a search and see what it finds.
Thanks
(Then I have to work out how to import it into Outlook Express.... )
Thanks
(Then I have to work out how to import it into Outlook Express.... )
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Guin, I'd suggest, if you can, buying a PILE of DVDs and burning all your photos and whatnot onto them ASAP.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
My photos are mostly on facebook now, and/or on memory sticks and the lark. Basically, I have pretty much learnt that lesson!
However, I still have to recover some stuff from before I lost everything, including important emails, which I need pretty urgently!
However, I still have to recover some stuff from before I lost everything, including important emails, which I need pretty urgently!
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
If they're outlook, the folder extensions are .pst, the files themselves .eml
I have no idea where they'd be tho as I've never used Outlook on a home machine...
I have no idea where they'd be tho as I've never used Outlook on a home machine...
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Outlook Express, not Outlook. They could be anywhere, and they could be named anything. It's all a bit of a muddle, the recovered stuff!
But I will do a search, and see what I find...
But I will do a search, and see what I find...
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Still the same extensions tho...
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Guin, I've used OE-mail recovery http://www.oemailrecovery.com/ to recover my Outlook Express Inbox a couple of times. It's not free but it does work. Beware the 'free download' versions as you infuriatingly get to see your Inbox again but iirc can't open any of the emails until you buy it anyway
Beware letting OE Inbox go over about 1400 items because it does tend to bork at that point.
I moved to Outlook in the end
Beware letting OE Inbox go over about 1400 items because it does tend to bork at that point.
I moved to Outlook in the end
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I think pst files must be Outlook rather than Outlook Express, because I don't have any pst files on my computer at all!
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Well, I have searched for .dbx files, too, and the only ones I have got are the current ones. I think I may have lost my old emails! That's bad.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I still have lots of strangely named files in the "recovered data" section of my disk, so I think it is possible that the emails are there, but that the file has lost its name. Can anyone suggest a way that I can try and find these? Thing is, I need to sue the people who sold me my mortgage some years ago, and I know I have some emails which will help towards that. Of course, I didn't back them up...
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