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Vista broke/Recovering Harddrive data

  • 29-10-2009 12:18AM
    #1
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hey, was using my laptop there and it just turned off, on turning it on it went into 'auto recovery' mode and after a while it said that windows can not be repaired automatically. I tried to system restore but lo and behold, apparantly it can't do that either, hurray!

    So how can I get this data off best, get some external enclosure? I assume I can't install an OS somehow and keep my data?
    Only really want my pictures of it..


Comments

  • #2
    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    Grab a bootable linux (live)(I'd personally recomend hirens boot cd) CD boot into it and transfer your pics across with a usb key or an external hard drive. Or you can remove yoru hdd, put it in an external enclosure and try to access it from another pc. You might be flat out of luck though, the hdd could be screwed.


  • #3
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    cheers will do, now to find somebody witha cd drive. heh

    why hiren? think i have ubuntu lost around here somewhere.
    You can jsut dl it to cd is it? never made a live cd.
    /looks


  • #4
    Menengroth™
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Menengroth™


    something similar happened to me a while back, OS corrupted, installed a second copy of the OS onto another partition and copied all my files onto an external HD


    goddamnit Tard, you're always breaking something!


  • #5
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,873 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Just use Ubuntu, it'll detect all devices and give a fully useable laptop, although a little slower as it'll be booting from cd.

    Click the install icon on the desktop once You've rescued the stuff ;)


  • #6
    marathont
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭marathont


    Ububntu will probably work, altough sometimes it doesnt mount the drive easily. I use hiren - mini xp which is really handy


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