Got back from a trip, loaded pictures and hit the start slide show button, nothing happened, can't stop, can't do anything. Feeling tired and short of patient, I pushed the power button thinking I'll restart the computer. It didn't reboot and a message telling me to backup my data, my hard drive is in imminant danger or something. I selected restart normally, it didn't work, tried restart using last known settings, it took about 6 hours and went back to the same screen, I later found out that would've damaged my hard drive a lot more. I tried putting in a copy of XP professional to try to cause it to perform checkdisk, it says no TLDR, and went back to the same message about hard drive problem. I tried the recovery disk expecting to find advance option to either install master boot or perform non-destructive system recovery per manuel, found out that it didn't give me the choice, paniced when I saw partitioning hard drive, I ejected the recovery disk and here I am.
Yes. You will probably need to re-install windows though. If your computer was saying imminant danger or something to that regards you probably need a new Hard Drive which are fairly cheaper now a days. If you go with a new HD install windows on the new one and make you old HD your secondary hard drive. Then download this free trial that lets you do everything the program does for 30 days at http://www.iolo.com/sr/4/download.aspx run it and just get back files like .MP3, picture files, .pdf files, videos and stuff like that you will not be able though to recover programs them selves or windows OS. If you re-install windows on old HD then just install windows then http://www.iolo.com/sr/4/download.aspx and run it because the more stuff put on the old HD thats trying to be recovered will be unrecoverable….
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Once the partitioning was started on your hard drive it is all done. Nothing can be recovered except if you take it too a data recovery company, they might be able to copy all data to CD. Not sure they can, it depends on how much damage you did.
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Yes. You will probably need to re-install windows though. If your computer was saying imminant danger or something to that regards you probably need a new Hard Drive which are fairly cheaper now a days. If you go with a new HD install windows on the new one and make you old HD your secondary hard drive. Then download this free trial that lets you do everything the program does for 30 days at http://www.iolo.com/sr/4/download.aspx run it and just get back files like .MP3, picture files, .pdf files, videos and stuff like that you will not be able though to recover programs them selves or windows OS. If you re-install windows on old HD then just install windows then http://www.iolo.com/sr/4/download.aspx and run it because the more stuff put on the old HD thats trying to be recovered will be unrecoverable….
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http://www.iolo.com
http://www.iolo.com/sr/4/download.aspx
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Yep. You're screwed. Sorry. Format (even if not complete) is very difficult if not impossible to recover from. If you have no current backup of your data you will be starting over from absolute scratch. Same as if you just bought the pc. All you can do now is put the recovery back in, boot from it and complete the "recovery". What you will end up with is a computer in exactly the same condition it was when you first bought it. Unless you can afford the "data recovery" service mentioned above (very expensive and absolutely NO guarentee of success) mentioned above.
Bert
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