How do you Back up a drive with a missing partition?
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you can try from a command prompt,  fdisk (drive letter) /mbr\nthat will restore the master boot record if it damaged, or you can go to the makers site and download their tools and diagnostic software and see if it can do it
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There are programs that will do this, but no program guarantees that all data will be rescued.  For more serious stuff there are companies that will seriously rescue a hard drive.  We're talking if you backed over the laptop with an SUV.  They charge by the hour so your data better be worth it.\n\nI too have lost a lot of data, but most of the stuff can be re-found on the net, and some of the documents I made were so small in size that I was able to retype them.  As far as rescuing porn, I've lost that too, but there's so much out there.  Besides, when was the last time you looked at all those files anyway, aside from a few favorites?
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you can try to use true image version 7 to backup the whole drive. all you need is to register on the acronis site and get true image for FREE:\n\nhttp://www.acronis.com/mag/vnu-ati7\n\nalso you can read some sort of a tutorial for this verison here:\n\nhttp://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?t=1442933
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I used to do consulting work for banks...\nThey had a rule that all disks removed from system had to be taken out in the parking lot and physically smashed up with large hammers.   No way anyone was ever going to get that data back ;-)\n\nIf there is no other way to access the drive, you might consider just taking it apart and snapping the platter into a million tiny pieces.\n\nYou did take backups, right?  :-)
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Boot to DOS, then run NTFSDOS. It will only allow you to read the files, but that should be enough to backup your stuff.\n\nhttp://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsDos.html\n\nIf the problem is more serious or if you have larger files you need to back up, I'd recommend purchasing VCOM Fix-It Utilities 6 Professional. You can find it at Amazon.
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There is a software called Easy recovery that has tools for testing the mechanical and logical functions of any hard drive.  You need another hard drive if you are going to attemp any data recovery though.  Check the website.
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Go to: Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup. Follow the instructions.
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You have to back them up in a secondary storage device like a USB drive or a CD. If you have multiple drives in your PC (say a C and a D drive),you can move the files from C to D and format the C drive if you want. If you run short of space,then distribute them across the drives you have. Still if you run out of space,there is no other way but to take a CD/USB backup.\n\nTo recover the lost files,try if they are hidden under Folder options. If you attempted a format on the drive and it went blank because of it,then there's no way i know that you can recover it.
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Easy use Killdisk wipe just the C partition.  Then let Windows setup format it in NTFS and prceed with Install.see sources
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Use Partition Magic\n\nIt's very user friendly program that you dont need any instruction on how to use.\nOnce installed you will see all your hard disk partitions.\nRight click and say Unhide partition.\nYou are done.\nCongrats
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Format the partition back to FAT32 or NTFS. You can do this by using your windows installation CD or if you know to use the FDISK command (Windows or Linux)\n\nIf that doesn't work you can use a partitioning tool like Ranish partition manager(Free) - http://www.ranish.com/part/ or Partition Magic(Commercial) to format the Linux partition(s)
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If I could not restore the files...\nI would boot the system off a PE disk to gain access to the hard drive and network. Copy the personal files off, re-image the PC from a ghost image that I had previously created, and copy the stuff back.\nLess than 30 minutes to do all this. I do it every day.
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The only way to back up files is to copy them to a different device.  What that device is will depend on your system.  If you have a CD or DVD burner, burn them to disk.  If you have a second internal hard drive or an external USB drive, use it.\n\nAs far as WHAT to back up, begin with the My Documents folders under each user in the Documents and Setting directory.  Then look for any other folders with data (pictures, music, vids, documents, etc).  It is pointless to back up programs as you can not reinstall them from a backup made by dragging the files to a device.  You would need to reinstall them from the original install CDs.  You can back up an software install programs you have on your drive.
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do u mean a back up disk?
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Partition your HD and keep back up there...
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go to start, accessories, system tools, disk cleanup.\n\nI also like the program crap cleaner to clean the harddrive. you can find it at filehippo.com. \nAlso to backup your harddrive, you need a dvdrw drive or an external hard drive or cdrw drive to copy your files to another storage space. i recommend the dvds or another hard drive because you'll need a lot of cds! then just burn your files like you would a music cd/dvd.
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format the hard drive, clean install windows