I have some very important files (documents & pictures) on a crashed pc and it wont start up so I purchased my self a lap top the needed files are on a desk top so how can I recover the files please help since I am not an advance pc user ?
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Your first approach might be to find a friend with a desktop and cd burner who knows a little about installing hard drives. Your old hard drive may still be in working order and it can be installed as a slave on your friends computer. Your old drive will need the pin set on it to slave. The drive, after installed will show up in my computer and then its just a matter of burning the files from the slave drive to cds...
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Try Any Good Data Recovery Softwear(Recover My File).
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If nothing can read it you would have to use an advanced program that uses bit stream copying to get the information back. Through any normal means the hard drive is dead and all information is lost. If it is imparative that you get the information off of it take it to a computer repair shop and ask them to retrieve whatever data they can. If it is not important to save the data that was on there you will need to buy a new drive and set up your computer again. Hope this helps.
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Freezing the drive for 30 minutes or so may revive the heads of the drive and give you 20 minutes to retrieve the data. You can buy programs like OnTrack's EasyRecovery (if the drive is still able to read data) and recover files from a bad file system. If you have super important files, you can pay companies (like OnTrack) to recover the data in a specialized lab, but the service costs in the thousands of dollars, depending on the necessary work.\n\n*** NOTE *** If the drive is making anything but a faint whiring noise, power it off and leave it alone. Continued use may lead to permanent physical damage and make recovery impossible. It must be handled by a professional.
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Yes it is possible, you need to find a programme that will recover data that you have deleted. I dont know any names, but look on Google for something like "file recovery".  However, stop using your computer right now.  The more you use it, the less likely it is that you will get those files back.\n\nDeleted files are not removed from your computer, the data space they take up is simply marked with an "over write" command.  Therefore, if you keep using your computer then you will may eventually lose your data, and it will be un-recoverable.
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Yes your data will always be there even if the computer is dead . The best way to check this out is go to Best Buy and bring your harddrive into Geek Squad because there pro's at that stuff. It only cost 60$ ( i think lol ) and they first run a diagnosis to find out what's really wrong with it. But yah it will still be there what you can also do if the computer is dead you can go back to best buy and get the Geek Squad to put your old info, or any thing that you want from your broken comp, to your new comp. Easy as that.
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http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_recover_my_desktop.htm
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probably, but you will have to take your hard drive to a speacialist.\nthere are companys that do this.\nsearch for hard drive recovery on google
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That is extremely bad news, a few years ago it would be the worst. I'm afraid what you'll have to do is reformat the drive. \n\nFortunately all is not lost as there are two pieces of software that will recover the data from the drive after this has taken place.\n\nGetDataBack and Ontrack Easy Recovery - I've used GetDataBack before in the same situation and found it works brilliantly.\n\nThe best of luck, and next time remember to back up to DVD or CD.
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If they are not in recycle bin, then you need a special software. PC Inspector File recovery is a free software available through which you can retrieve lost data. But I don't know how it works, so you will have to find that out yourself.\nhttp://www.download.com/PC-Inspector-File-Recovery/3000-2248_4-10118664.html?tag=lst-0-1
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don't fragment your hard disk\n\nDownload PC Inspector File Recovery from http://www.pcinspector.de/download.htm\n\nInstall it, follow guidelines
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If you have shift+del the folder then recovering it may be slightly difficult, but since the files are music files, a software called EasyRecover will be able recover it for you. select the drive where the folders were present, and recover it. It should be able to recover coz, i have tried recovering some movie files and it worked. All the best. U will be albe to get a copy from http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/
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only with a special cabel.  I would suggest getting a jump drive (usb memory stick) and transfering the files that way.  If the HDD has crashed then you have a very expensive option.
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power off pc do not restart it power off wait then power back on if still same u cant login or enter pc by safemode check ur hard drive data cable check ur pc ram  id all ok reinstall windows if will not reinstall  buy new hdd . & use that one as a back up hdd. so u can get ur files off it
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as far as i know you need to have some sort of restore disk, which usually comes with the PC.
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You need not to use the PC (if the HD sector where the original document was stored gets overwritten, the data is gone for good). Then find a recovery software (Davory or Recover My Files can do the work) and try to find your files.
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I'm sorry but as far as I know if you did not back up your files they are lost, but you may find soome help by doing HP live chat it can be  much easier than the phone and is also quicker (no press 3 blah blah blah) to accesss this just go here...\nhttp://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact/chat_1.html\n\nsimply enter your computer info and name (it will be your "screen name") and you are good to go