I had accidentally dropped my laptop on the ground, fell about two feet tops onto the carpet, so the USB connection was bent, it’s not bent anymore because I unbent it a bit. BUT, whenever I plug it in my VISTA goes “One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message.”
What should I do? How do I recover the USB’s data?
I have recovered JPG files from a memory stick SD type, the files header are missing as well as footers, therefore they have just data if you view them in HEX. How may I recover these file to viewable? Nokia N70 and Nokia N80 was used to take these photos. I have tried all the revocery software available on the net but they do not work, the erros are all similar “bad or missing header” so with photoshop and opening it with RAW just presents snow. ACDSEE just show a blank (black image).
I have a western digital 160 GB hard drive. I had it plugged up and operating and since the side of my computer tower couldnt stay on and the hard drive was too large to actually fit inside….it would always be outside the tower. More to the point….while i was using it…i had a hard glass cup on the top of my tower and it accidently fell and made impact onto the operating hard drive. Ever since then it makes a small clicking sound(indicating that its physically damaged from the impact of the cup falling on it) and isn’t accessible. In the setup screen…the drive id is recognized but the capacity of the hard drive is no longer recognized. At this point…..what can i do to retrieve the data on it as i have very many importnat files on there that i really need to recover? Answers greatly appreciated
I recently got a virus on my hard drive, so i took it out and hooked it up to my laptop to recover the data. But then I look through the drive, all the data in My Pictures, My Music, and everything in My Documents is gone. But when I right click on the drive, it says that 80 gigs of 250 are used, those 80 gigs are my data but cant find them. I have already allowed the viewing of hidden files and used the search bar but still cant find my files. Where are my files??Thanks
Virus is removed, original OS on HD is XP pro connected through a SATA-USB cable onto a windows 7 OS laptop. I can see into the hard drive fine, I can see all the program files and everything in the drive but in the USERS folder, there should be a folder that says HP_ADMINISTRATOR, thats where everything should be, but its gone
My hard drive shows unknown file format(all the files & folder names are changed into some machine language) and the capacity of particular hard drive has changed and it is not accessing. File system has changed automatically. A virus did that…Is there any software who recover hard drive & all data…
I dont want to format the drive because it has around 60 GB of data which is very important…I am in great trouble
somebody help me please…
I recently dropped my laptop on the ground and when I try to start it up it tries to read the harddrive and gets stuck about 70% of the way thrugh (after analyzing it for 6 hours.) So I was wondering what I can do to fix the harddrive and recover the files on it?
Do I have to take it to a data management place or is there another alternative to fixing it?
Thanks for any input ahead of time.
Alright thanks for the input. I think I am just going to buy a new hardrive and get this put my current hardrives files onto it. Does anyone know of a good program that is free that I can put on CD that will allow me to back it up from my laptop. My laptop allows me to go to the setting screen so i can use the CD as a boot disk, but i wont let me go any further.
I am having boot problems with XP and several Recover command prompts are turning up bad results:
FIXMBR – ” . . . The disk may be damaged”
FIXBOOT – “The boot sector cannot be fixed”
CHKDSK – “The specified drive is not valid, or there is no disk in the drive.”
Also, I heard the hard drive clicking/crunching when I ran FIXBOOT.
So is my hard drive physically shot? How can I tell for certain?
P.S. – Luckily I had recently placed all of my valuable data on an external hard drive, so data recovery is not an issue for me.
Ok, here’s the situation…I have a HP Pavillion laptop and one day, I decided to bring my computer to my friend’s house. Long story short…my friend has a magnetic matress pad and I completely forgot about this. I had my computer turned on, playing music and I sat it on the bed that has magnets in the matress pad. After about 30min, I noticed my computer started to run very slowly and the music kinda sounded like a cd skipping. All of a sudden, I see the BSOD and it says to restart my computer and then the screen went completely black. I restarted it, and my computer wouldn’t start Windows. It turns on and goes to the main HP screen but it loops continuously as if there is no hard drive. I took it to a computer shop and he was able to locate the hard drive but it appeared that everything had been wiped off. I was thinking of getting a second opinion because I have found several articles online suggesting that a magnet cannot completely erase data and that it can be recovered. Help!??
I have almost 400GB of data on one of my hard drives. I booted up with a GParted Live CD (on my laptop, by the way) and was resizing and moving the partition. It took 4 hours to re-size, then would have taken about 9 hours to move the partition over, so I left it running unattended for the majority of the process. I left the house about an hour and a half before it was supposed to finish, and everything was fine at that point. When I got back a few hours later, the laptop was off with a dead battery. Checked the power cord and it was only plugged into the adapter part-way. Must have stepped on the cord and pulled it out slightly when I left…
I booted up my computer and Windows told me to format the drive. I clicked no and instead ran “dskchk /F”. Windows fixed all the “orphaned files” and such, and now I can view the drive in My Computer. The problem is, the folder that had 400GB of data in it is now listed as a “file” of 0KB. I know the data is still on the hard drive because the free disk space still only shows 35GB free with a total capacity of 425GB. The only other folder on the disk only adds up to ~39GB. So that ~400GB is still on the disk, just can’t access it through Windows Explorer.
So my question is… How can I recover these files? I’m willing to spend money on a program if need be, but the only file recovery programs I found online say they recover “accidentally deleted” files. Will such a program also be able to recover the files lost in my situation?
I appreciate any advice anybody can provide.
Thanks,
Matt
Well I got all the files back by using a program called PC Inspector File Recovery, but because the partition on the hard drive was being moved to a different location on the disk while it died, all the files are messed up. Half of them won’t open in their respective viewing programs. I had a few movies in there too and they will play with VLC but are all random scenes from random files and parts are missing.
I’m still trying to figure out a way to somehow un-piece everything and piece it all back together in the right order. I’m sure the FBI could fix something like this in a matter of minutes.
Okay, so I have 2 different situations. First, I have a broken hard drive. Second, I have a scratched DVD. Both work fine until they reach the “scratch”. I can’t copy data from them because when it reaches the bad spot, the entire copy operation fails due to a “cyclic redundancy check”. What software (free is HIGHLY preferable) or copying technique do I need to rescue all the data I can from it?
My computer has stopped working after it was moved by kids while it was on. It just goes into an infinite loop of trying to boot up, with a beep sound every few seconds.
I phoned some PC repair people and they said it might be due to damaged hard disk.
I am worried now! Could my data be lost? These people have said they can try and recover my data. Would it be 100% efficient? If any data turns out to be irrecoverable, does it mean certain files & folders won’t appear in the directory at all? Or would the contents of those files be jumbled up (appearing like junk)? What are the tell-tale signs of data loss?
hi, I have a huge problem, I just sent my hard drive to a data recovery company (CBL) and they said there’s physical damage on the drive and they cant recover it, please tell me if you know of a company that handles these tough hard drive recovery cases!
Thanks!
If the answer is pay for data recovery what’s a cheap company that will recover the drive sucessfully?
I recently lost just about everything on my PC (with Windows XP), and whilst trying to recover everything with a data recovery program, it seems most of it can’t be recovered because it says its been over-written. When I check the properties for them, the overwrite percentage changes just about every time. I’ve even tried doing a system restore. Should I just give up hope?