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Parted Magic - How do I save my windows data?

  • 16-03-2012 01:41PM
    #1
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭


    My HDD is corrupted, specifically the boot partition.

    I am running parted magic from USB on the machine, and have an external drive hooked up to it. I will have to reinstall from the factory disk overwriting all my data, what can I do from parted magic with an external drive to allow me to recover my data, settings, drivers etc?

    Can I just copy/paste the windows folder? Use some program which will allow me to restore all my data?

    Thanks guys


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  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Stercus Accidit wrote: »
    My HDD is corrupted, specifically the boot partition.

    I am running parted magic from USB on the machine, and have an external drive hooked up to it. I will have to reinstall from the factory disk overwriting all my data, what can I do from parted magic with an external drive to allow me to recover my data, settings, drivers etc?

    Can I just copy/paste the windows folder? Use some program which will allow me to restore all my data?

    Thanks guys

    Most of your data will be stored in the Users/Documents & Settings folders. The Windows folder is system files only. Have you tried repairing the partition or install?

    Nick

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  • #3
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    yoyo wrote: »
    Most of your data will be stored in the Users/Documents & Settings folders. The Windows folder is system files only. Have you tried repairing the partition or install?

    Nick

    A very good tech guy spent all day doing hdd recoveries, diagnostics, attempted OS and boot repairs and system restore file recoveries to no avail. The wrong thing got corrupted on the HDD and its un-salvageable according to a guy with far better IT skills than me, he gave me the parted magic so I could grab what I needed.

    Right now I am just copying folders manually to an external hdd, I just want to grab as many settings as possible.


  • #4
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Stercus Accidit wrote: »
    A very good tech guy spent all day doing hdd recoveries, diagnostics, attempted OS and boot repairs and system restore file recoveries to no avail. The wrong thing got corrupted on the HDD and its un-salvageable according to a guy with far better IT skills than me, he gave me the parted magic so I could grab what I needed.

    Right now I am just copying folders manually to an external hdd, I just want to grab as many settings as possible.

    Some applications will save settings in the App Data folder in Docs & Settings or Users folder if Vista or higher. The registry saved settings and license codes will likely be unsalvageable though.

    Nick

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    My Irish Callcards site



  • #5
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    Thanks, I have a long few days ahead. I have a 500gb external drive now, any recommendations for backup software? I suppose I can only blame myself (and microsoft updates) for having to do all this manually.


  • #6
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Stercus Accidit wrote: »
    any recommendations for backup software?

    ToDo Backup


    How to create a bootable disk?


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