basically my pc has xp which crashed… but it had lots of important data in it.
now i want to recover that data and put it in my laptop which has vista …. help needed here…
so that i once i’ve transferred the data i can format my hard drive and install windows 7 on my pc.
OR… is there a way to simply install windows 7 on my pc without deleting anything from my hard drive?
I’ve been thinking about alternative ways of tracking a potentially lost/stolen laptop…I’ve been having trouble with Computrace Lojack for Laptops (they’re working on a fix) being incompatible with some of my software and causing Windows errors.
What about using a GPS enabled cellphone to track the computer? Verizon has the Chaperone Child/Parent service – maybe there’s a way to get a really cheap/small phone and fit it inside the computer somewhere…tie in a modified charger to the laptop’s charger port and it could use it’s own battery for power and the laptop’s power as a regenerative power supply to charge the cellphone when the laptop is plugged in, most cellphones will operate for nearly a week idle on a charge…and laptops usually need charging daily.
Thoughts? Good? Bad?
I suppose the next step could be a ExpressCard or PCMCIA card that spoofs a micro-drive (memory and all) and has a hidden GPS transciever – maybe even use it as a backup memory and then you could use the cellular/GPS transciever to recover your important data remotely.
Or has this been done somewhere?
My computer crashed, and a tech person recommended a hard drive enclosure USB 2.5 to recover the data. I see alot with 2.0, does it matter? Are there certain enclosures that are only for desktops or are they all the same? Thanks.
my laptop brand is averatec 3200seriess.
i want to make my laptp, just the way it was when i bought it. but i don,t have recover cd. i can ‘t even get my wireless card working and some other drivers.
i had a satelite toshiba notebook, and the motherboard or the lcd went to hell… i have taken hd out and tried to fit it into several other notebooks, like a dell inspiron 1800 and another random unknown laptop… the hd doesnt register with either and i want to know why and also what are some other options to retrieveing the data of my hd.
I’ve heard of turning it into a USB drive, but im not that savvy to know what the hell that means.
also, can i try this laptop HD in a desktop??? btw i had vista on my laptop…
PLEASE HELP ME!! IM DESPERATE!!! MY RESEARCH AND THESIS IS ON THIS THING!!!!
Ok I know that in this day and age, I mustn’t be naiive, and people say pretty much ANYTHING that you do on your work computer can be somehow tracked/monitored/recovered etc. etc. etc.
However, after working at various financial and very “corporate”-ish companies over the years, I have indeed noticed that some companies (and some of their divisions within), do more or less, so it’s not all the same risk, if you have at least some idea of how much monitoring, tracking they do in your area. Positions are different too. Less tracking might be done (or at least only once a year or so) on teh machine of management than team members. Whatever.
anyway, my other thing is, yes anything is “possible”, but often not feasible. example, a company may not choose to spend a certain amount of time checking into one employee, unless/until there is some reason so.
so here is my situation:
laptop computer, that’s pretty well locked down. (I am not an admin). windows PC. XP professional. I.E. browser, I.E. 7 i believe.
When my laptop is at home with me, AND I AM NOT CONNECTED TO THE COMPANY NETWORK / VPN, and if during that time, I put a CD into the CD drive. the CD has pictures on it. Maybe a .avi or .wmv file or two. I view or play those items, using only windows picture and fax viewer, and also using maybe WMP. at this time, I also am not even connected to the internet.
I do nothing with the files (don’t copy or move them off of the cd drive), just view them, then pop the CD back out and that’s it.
Of course, later on (maybe the same day, maybe in a few days), I finally do connect to the corporate network.
realistically how likely is it, how possible, how hard would it be (or is it even possible), for some person or program to actually notice the fact that my harddrive, at one time in the past, played a file that was only available to the harddrive while on the CD.
guess what i’m saying is, it must make a huge difference that the data was never stored on the harddrive of the computer….right? can the harddrive and memory and what’s recoverable from that standpoint, really have much effect on something that was accessed from a removable drive?
I took it apart, took the hd out. The laptop is in pieces. I have the harddrive out and I have 1000’s of pics on it I need to recover. Is the HD still ok? If a laptop wont turn on, what does that mean? Is my data still safe?
I was thinking: what would happen if I got the same model laptop, (that works) could I put this HD in, acces my files on it, and move them to an external HD???
Would this be good? What would my best bet be here?
Thanks!
a webcam chat on a laptop? Got a case of a predator online and need help recovering data.
Where would they be stored?
My Apple laptop was dropped and died. The hard-drive was replaced by Apple but only a few files were recovered. Apple said that the recovery process was too slow.
Is there any other way to recover the lost files?
Because it is a pity to lose valuable data, I recommend everyone to periodically save files into an independent memory device.
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I have a hard drive from a dead laptop I want to recover the data from. When I attach the drive via USB in an enclosure all I can see is the windows files. I can’t boot Windows on a USB and I can’t set a USB device as a slave. The drive is IDE. Do I HAVE TO mount the drive internally? How can I recover the data files?
Thanks