One of our clients just dropped 14 grand on a raid 5 recovery. Last I checked physical data recovery ran a few hundred bucks per gig minimum Well the HDD looks like it took a turn for the worse, barely wants to boot, i am now willing to put some money up to get my data back since it includes a lifetime of photos and very important documents PM me for your services if you can help out My plan is just to get it working, immediately grab the data and then toss the drive, new one should get here on/about wednesday so as long as it's repaired about that time from what im reading it sounds like once you have to do something on this large of a scale, even if you regenerate all the bad sectors it could be only a matter of hours before things go sour again Op i will sell you some slightly used (but working) sectors on the cheap.
Yeah but I'll bet your grandma is on a legit version of windoze, so she won't have to worry about the crack failing but most likely you've had the drive spindle fail, especially ifthr bad sectors are piling up like that Lol well since you didnt divulge any further i went ahead and stopped HDD Regenerator and tried some of the partition recovery and other tools i used the other day to get some data off of an old usb stick that wouldnt read in windows, but that thing only had a handful of bad sectors i tried about 8 programs and they all froze or the hdd started spinning up and then made that click like it stopped so im just gonna let HDD Regen run again overnight and see where we're at in the morning and then decide if its worth going after my entire lifes worth of photos and music (yes i should have backed up but the whole computer is less than 2 years old, i thought i had some time left) its funny because i just got done telling my mother in law to get backup and replace all her old hdds and usb sticks because most of them are 5+ years old there are other much quicker ways to get your shit back Ill try it but i just want to know if i should waste 3 days running this regenerator recovering all the bad sectors or if its improbable ill be able to get like 150gb of stuff back you won't have any problems switching them out sometimes they have a little connector between the case and the drive.a lot of times they don't. it doesn't take much.just 2 or 4 screws for the cover on the hard drive, it'll pop out. "I've never done anything hardware wise to a laptop but I do have one of those 100in1 screwdriver kits. like I asked earlier is this going to let me recover my stuff or is this an excersize in futility? I pay for one license, but ive probably installed it on 2 or 3 computers i own so yeah im despicable but certainly not the worst offenderĢ424 bad sectors so far, 5 hours 10 min running, 3.44% finished. is it even worth it to let it finish, i mean its repairing them but is it going to actually be usable? its going to take well into tomorrow at this rate
I could give it a whirl.Ĭomputer karma i guess, its up to 1000 bad sectors now and its been running for about 2 hours. I've never done anything hardware wise to a laptop but I do have one of those 100in1 screwdriver kits. it basically creates a fake SLIC table in ACPI that makes Windows think your computer is an OEM box from Dell or somewhere.
SLIC Loader = crack for Windows Activation. ill buy a hdd off newegg but can anybody suggest a cheap place to get it installed? ran hdd regenerator from hirens boot cd and its only at 3% and its already found 400 bad sectors.
This sounds like you've got hardware issues, not software ones.
I have no idea how anything could have gotten messed up but it is going depressingly slow, i popped in the windows 7 disc and it took about 10 min to get passed the "starting windows" splash and now its just sitting with a white cursor on a black background I put Linux on about 2 years ago but I thought I wiped it off almost just as fast I've reinstalled windows at least twice since then Someone wanted to put on his Linux big boy pants!!1
Why did you install grub in the first place? one of those three should get rid of grub. Or maybe just go into recovery console and do a fixboot/fixmbr. Put in your windows disk and do a repair install. I tried each option to no avail, ill try windows 7 disc when I get home not sure what to do but I can't get past it, just keeps hanging, pic to follow I just started up my comp normally, nothing out o the ordinary and it sits for about 5 min before it comes up with a red screen to choose whether to load with slic or not.