Help from IT pro's

**disco_cally** · 21st February 2008, 08:26 AM

Hi Pedro

you are experiencing the new and improved windoze it only get better from here microsoft is such a great product helpful and easy to use as long as you install nothing other that the operating system and all you want to do is sit back and look at all the pretty pretty lights.

down worry about downloading a linux live cd its easier to duck out to the local newsagency and buy a mag which comes with a live cd, I have several scattered around the house as coasters.

Most linux live disk will support burning to cd but it will be far easier to have a usb external hard drive to copy stuff to, 26 gig of steam sounds like a hard core gamer.

The external cases are cheap at the local pc markets if u have them in qld and hdd are cheap too at the moment always handy for backups.

silly question number one what happen just before windoze said i dont want to boot problem

cheers
Steve

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 21st February 2008, 08:30 AM

an attempted partition creation ---
and sudden blackout.

**disco_cally** · 21st February 2008, 08:52 AM

ouch
its a good bet then that your data is lost or at best you have lost the drive geometry (geek speak for how the OS finds stuff on the drive) which amounts to much the same thing as deleting everything and taking a hammer to the drive.

We now enter the realm of professional data recovery\hacking tools and some of the best tools run under linux, you may be lucky if you can download a bartpe recovery image that you can burn to disk and boot from that to see if it can scan for lost files.

its probably more hassle than its worth and its a steep learning curve.

have a google about for data recovery iso's and computer forensics

enjoy
Steve

**incisor** · 21st February 2008, 09:06 AM

data shouldnt be lost at all...

you can recover lost partions and file systems quite easily most of the time.

long as you dont write more data to the hdd then it is easy to get it back.. the more data you write back to the hdd the less chance you have of recovering things..

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 21st February 2008, 11:04 AM

I keep telling you, when I stuff up, its always the size of the Harbour Bridge.

vista would only give me the option of clean install, which means,, yes folk and folkettes,
a format.
And as I was using Bills "everything on C" heirachy,, its all gone.

anyway its done now, all gone, build a bridge time.

so now its back to MY "XP" Heirachy.
nothing but vista on C, ALL programs that will work elsewhere are on D, dedicated crysis drive is G,

I tried it your way Bill,,

**disco_cally** · 26th February 2008, 08:13 AM

dont worry I lost all my data on my main drive over the weekend trying to back it up to a network drive.

short story
running linux cant login into the graphical desktop ??? stupid box you were working last night..... at the command prompt started a copy process but it kept timing out on the large files.....grrr.. insert install\live disk for a different linux OS....oohh pretty desktop ok lets get data safely onto the network drive.... trying to mount the partition of the internal hard drive ..... oh crap wrong button lost partition info .... bugger ..

tried to recover it …. to slow no idea if it is working, no patience stuff it reinstall pretty OS hey presto backup and working but with only partial data on the network drive

I will have to go back to an earlier backup..... dam it lost all those video files oh well bridge building time...

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