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#16609 18-Oct-2007 17:13

Hi, Need to recover data on hard drive but only disc which came with the package was a 'recovery disk' which says "inserting this disc into a drive will erase information stored on the system". Too scared to put it into the drive in case it doesnt give me the option to repair, modify,install. Would only want a repair. No other discs for install came with it. Have tried setting hard drive up on another computer as secondary master, secondary slave, primary slave- doesnt get past welcome screen.However going into safe with command I get a list of .sys files and then it all stops - again!
Thanks for any advice...Vicki

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#91575 18-Oct-2007 19:43

If the data is important perhaps you should purchase a new hard drive, install it as primary and reinstall the OS on that disc? Then boot normally and use it to read the old drive?

Or get a Linux Live CD, boot from there and try reading the old disc?

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#91646 19-Oct-2007 09:16

Thank you for your reply. I really do want and need some of the data of the drive. With the package I only got the 'recovery'disc . Therefore I am not sure if that is the full operating system which I could put onto another HD. When I have tried to get into the HD by setting it in another computer as primary slave or secondary master that (the other) computer has had a different operating system. Now I am confused. Any suggestions?- Vicki

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#91648 19-Oct-2007 09:23

My HP MCE has a smaller (6GB) partition for MCE Recovery, and I have made a DVD-DL recovery disc. I have yet try to restore my system to factory settings yet.

My suggestion is, get an external HDD, backup/copy all files, media etc. Once done, restore it to system factory, and put the Media back to where they were.

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