Posted: 3/24/2010 8:06:32 PM EDT
| Well my desktop comp[uter is fubared. I tried to re-install windows after a nasty virus made it work like crap. I have 2 hard drives in the computer. Well I took all my familys pictures from the last several years, most of them are of my 2 kids, and i copied them onto my secondary drive, then started the restore process. Well part way through the restore procecess, it errors out and reboots. Well the restore process restarts but it keeps erroring out on me, telling me to contact HP support if the problem continues. Any attempt to restart the computer brings me right back to the restore window which will not let me do anything without erroring out. NOw this computer doid not cone with a restore disk, but had a restore partition on the HD. Except there is no command to start the restore process or access the restore info on the partition. I cant restore my operating system so I decide to use a old windows disk and install XP manually. Well I attempt to install XP with my upgrade CD that i bought, and it gives me an error saying no windows OS were on the drive and the installation cant continue. Ok, i grab another restore disk from a different computer and it installs with no errors. Except when it did this, it appeared to format both of my HD's. So now Ive lost all my pictures,music, porn.. etc. Well i know the data is not truly gone and it can be restored. But I get the desktop working, but since i used a recovery disk from a different computer, it installed all the wrong drivers. I cannot connect my desktop the the internet to download the right drivers for anything. I can't do squat. So now im gona try and talk to HP and see if they can send me a recovery CD for a comnputer thats no longer under warrenty. Anyways, now Ive pulled the HD's out, plugged them into an external HD and I am running recovery software on the one with all the pictures, music, and porn. |
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Best I could do on short notice. Looks a lot more like English now. Quoted: My desktop computer is fubared. I tried to re-install windows after a nasty virus made the computer work like crap. I have 2 hard drives in the computer. I took all my family's pictures from the last several years, copied them onto my secondary drive and started the restore process. Part way through the restore process, the computer errors out and reboots. The restore process restarts but it keeps erroring out on me, telling me to contact HP support if the problem continues. Any attempt to restart the computer brings me right back to the restore window which will not let me do anything without erroring out. This computer did not come with a restore disk, but had a restore partition on the HD. There is no command to start the restore process or access the restore info on the partition. I cant restore my operating system so I decide to use a old windows disk and install XP manually. I attempted to install XP with my upgrade CD that I bought, and it gives me an error saying no Windows OS were on the drive and the installation cant continue. I grab another restore disk from a different computer and it installs with no errors. Except when it did this, the computer appeared to format both of my HD's. So now Ive lost all my pictures,music, porn.. etc. I know the data is not truly gone and it can be restored. I get the desktop working, but since i used a recovery disk from a different computer, it installed all the wrong drivers. I cannot connect my desktop the the internet to download the right drivers for anything. I can't do squat. So now im going to try and talk to HP and see if they can send me a recovery CD for a comnputer thats no longer under warranty. I've pulled the HD's out, plugged them into an external HD and I am running recovery software on the one with all the pictures, music, and porn. |
| I always remove back up drives when installing, restoring or formatting a hard drive. Sounds like either your main drive is bad, or you got some fudged up memory. Could also be an overheat condition, do you hear your fan revving up? Install a free version of linux, see if you get the same problem during the linux install. |
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Quoted: I always remove back up drives when installing, restoring or formatting a hard drive. Sounds like either your main drive is bad, or you got some fudged up memory. Could also be an overheat condition, do you hear your fan revving up? Install a free version of linux, see if you get the same problem during the linux install. Try Linux Mint 8. Excellent for refugees from Windoze. |
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It's kinda late to point this out...... but the great thing about putting a second hard drive into a computer and storing all your most important files on that, is that if you ever need to do a re-install of the OS, you can open the PC's case and disconnect the data cable to the second hard drive first, and then the OS reinstall cannot possibly wipe out the data on the second hard drive.
This is ALSO a reason that "dividing one drive into multiple partitions" is NOT as good as paying for two separate hard drives. If one of the partitions on a drive gets screwed up, it may be necessary to remove and re-create ALL of them. A 400-Gb hard drive only costs $40 nowadays; if you want to increase your file-survivability chances it's not that expensive or difficult. ~ |
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This is ALSO a reason that "dividing one drive into multiple partitions" is NOT as good as paying for two separate hard drives. If one of the partitions on a drive gets screwed up, it may be necessary to remove and re-create ALL of them.
I've done this on most of my Linux installations. Over the years I've accumulated a lot of smaller drives, 6g, 12g, 20g, etc. I'll put in 2 or 3 of these drives, make one /root, one /home, etc. This computer (openSuse) has a 20g /root and a 500g /home drive. |