Q. I have Windows XP on my desktop. My hard drive is corrupt and won't boot. I've got a hiren's boot disc and feel that there must be some way to recover the information. I've messed around with most of the recovery options, but I can't get anything to actually happen. There are pretty much no instructions. Can anybody help explain how to get data off of my corrupt hard drive?
A. Insert the CD and have your PC boot from CD. Wait a bit, now you should be at a main menu showing all the tools you can use. Navigate to Recovery Tools (or something to that manner) and look for the HDD Regenerator. This will recover your corrupted hard drive.
Have the program scan your entire hard drive and wait a couple of hours depending on the size of your hard drive. It's going to take the whole day if you have a large hard drive (160GB and up), so don't plan on doing anything on your PC while you're scanning. I recommend doing this overnight.
Hope this helps.
Have the program scan your entire hard drive and wait a couple of hours depending on the size of your hard drive. It's going to take the whole day if you have a large hard drive (160GB and up), so don't plan on doing anything on your PC while you're scanning. I recommend doing this overnight.
Hope this helps.
What's the best software that i can use to erase my hard drive on my laptop?
Q. Ok, the only programs that i have heard about recently are: Dariks Boot and Nuke, Ultimat Boot Disk, and using windows Device Manager. I have a Compaq Presario CQ56-115DX Notebook with 2gb of memory, and windows 7. I have my recovery cd's and a recovery manager from hp that i can use to reinstall my my Windows 7 operating system. Can somebody please give me some solid advice?
A. Ok. I guess it all depends on what you actually want to do.
For example, if you are afraid of someone getting hold of you computer and using data recovery software to un-delete stuff that you have removed, then you would use a program that would "zero out" your hard drive, essentially writing null data repeatedly over the drive, to ensure it could not be recovered. Dariks Boot and Nuke. and the Ultimate Boot Disc could be used for this.
Now, if you just want to remove programs you don't use any more, then you can simply use the Add/Remove programs feature of Windows to remove them... or the uninstaller that comes with each program.
If you want to wipe your computer clean and reinstall Windows, then you can just use the recovery CDs... or you can use the recovery manager/partition that was included with your laptop.
For example, if you are afraid of someone getting hold of you computer and using data recovery software to un-delete stuff that you have removed, then you would use a program that would "zero out" your hard drive, essentially writing null data repeatedly over the drive, to ensure it could not be recovered. Dariks Boot and Nuke. and the Ultimate Boot Disc could be used for this.
Now, if you just want to remove programs you don't use any more, then you can simply use the Add/Remove programs feature of Windows to remove them... or the uninstaller that comes with each program.
If you want to wipe your computer clean and reinstall Windows, then you can just use the recovery CDs... or you can use the recovery manager/partition that was included with your laptop.
How can I make a recovery disk for XP?
Q. I want to make a recovery disk but I don't know how. HELP, I HAVE A MILLION VIRUSES!
A. 1: you have to either find the one that came with the comp to reboot xp (you loose all your data on it) or buy a new one.
2:you can get some virus scan but it probably wont help
3: just get a boot disk for linux (im a game disigner so i know what im talking about here. i sware by linux) you can download it off the internet. then boot up linux.
side notes: any widnows viruses cant work on linux because the protocalls are compleatly different. even the administration system is compleat opposites. linux is almost 100% safe i say almost because theres are under 1000 viruses for linux but they are just proof of consept viruses. theres over 1.5 milion major viruses for windows not including ad or spyware. linux cant get compleatly destroyed like windows can. nothing is hosted under the root administration so it cant just corrupt al your files like in windows. if you have important files you can just parsion your harddrive and use the free space remaining for the linux so you can still acess the important windows files.
2:you can get some virus scan but it probably wont help
3: just get a boot disk for linux (im a game disigner so i know what im talking about here. i sware by linux) you can download it off the internet. then boot up linux.
side notes: any widnows viruses cant work on linux because the protocalls are compleatly different. even the administration system is compleat opposites. linux is almost 100% safe i say almost because theres are under 1000 viruses for linux but they are just proof of consept viruses. theres over 1.5 milion major viruses for windows not including ad or spyware. linux cant get compleatly destroyed like windows can. nothing is hosted under the root administration so it cant just corrupt al your files like in windows. if you have important files you can just parsion your harddrive and use the free space remaining for the linux so you can still acess the important windows files.
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