Recover Data Files, Unerase Files

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Harddisk 2 x 250GB SATA disk
Motherboard – Intel DG43NB
Videocard – Nvidia Gfore 9500 (I GB)
Hi, I’ve recently started having problems on my computer. Ever so often when while watching a video or performing some resource intensive task the computer freezes up with no mouse or keyboard response. Only a hard reset brings things back to life. However the event view does not show any errors in applications or system. Could this be a sign of impending HDD failure? if so how do I tell which disk is about to fail. I am running windows XP professional. I have also had to replace the motherboard recently and as a result of this I had to reinstall the OS, which was a clean reinstall, in fact I backed up all my data and formated each partition. Thanks in advance for any advise.
No, I don’t really play all that many games, I do use AutoCAD, Photoshop Etc and fairly large files. so you can imagine the trouble with freezing when I am in the middle of a large file. I tried Vista but the problem was even worse, so I went back to XP. I have 2GB DDR2 RAM, Processor is Core 2 Duo 2,13 GHz. I have worked with 300MB files without any issues in the past
Video card is new, replaced it only 3 months ago. I had to replace it as I live near the beach and the salt in the air had completely ruined the old Card

Is there a program or something? Because I recovered some deleted pictures and zip folders with an un-delete program and when I try to open the picture in windows picture and fax viewer it says”No Preview Availible”. And when I try to open a zip folder I recovered it says: “The compressed (zipped) folder is invalid or corrupt”. But the files still have data inside them in the properties menu it says that the file(s) is 56.1 KB, so it should be able to open. Is there a program that can access the files even though they supposedly have “missing” data? By the way I am running Windows XP SP2 with all the updates and stuff. PLEASE try and answer, thanks

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I have a Seagate 500 GB/7200rpm something or other hard drive that suffered trauma when the Macbook it was in hit the ground. The drive is like 2 years old. I sent it to Data Recovery Labs and they quoted $1690 to recover the data. Surely there must be an alternative that *normal* people can afford? Any tips?
What do you mean by “freezing it”?
But can this be done if the dead computer can’t even be booted?

Hello, so while testing a firewire harddrive out(Ironically enough) the main hard drive crashed(Looks like a worm). So, after doing a diagnostic from the BIOS and finding CRAP skittered all over the disk(As in… ERROR THIS AND THIS IS BAD)… i said to myself, big deal, meet my XP install disk!
The csrss.sys file is not able to be replaced by the XP disk and it looks like some windows media 9 .exe file is corrupted too.
The computer boots through BIOS, and then starts the windows loading page with the bar moving and all and then it crashes at the same time on the same file every time(Strange: Its not the csrss.sys file either).

BASICALLY a new harddrive that fits that is 80 or 120 GB is not that expensive, so I will install a new harddrive, load XP, tadaa!! But now what… how would i go about setting up the other drive as a slave or whatnot, do i put it in the HDD2 slot and then set it as a slave in the bios? Is it easy drag/drop interface after that? thanks a bunch !

And i heard something about hp recovery software. does anyone have any idea about that. where to do free download of that software.

I know there have been a lot of these asked but I have a little twist. I have the sandsik cruzer and I was trying to delete the U3 Launch program. It started and then it wanted to transfer my files and format the drive. So I clicked cancel because I wanted to back up all my files first. When I did that, most of my files were gone. The most important ones for college are gone too. Is there any way I can get these back? I have tried a couple different recovery programs and they havnt found anything and I also have to pay to save anything they find anyway. Thanks for any help.

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