By the way it was an accident!!!
2007-12-30 22:26:45 · 17 answers · asked by The Red Girl 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
he had two hard drives and wanted to deleted one of them but instead deletd his own
he is a technichan
2007-12-31 00:38:49 · update #1
One of the hardest things to do by accident is to delete your active hard-drive ...theres all sorts of popup windows and warnings and confirmation ... unless he had critical data on there and wishes to pay a lot of money for data recovery ... he's best to write it off to experience and reload everything ... I just had a power surge that fried two drives in a computer 400GB of lost data ... reloading is a HUGE pain in the Butt ... luckily I'm a little paranoid about backing up so no important stuff was irretrievable lost
2007-12-30 22:31:15 · answer #1 · answered by Jack K 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Oh no his porn was on there!
2007-12-31 06:45:44 · answer #2 · answered by dearnhardt1 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Depends _how_ he deleted it.
If it won't boot, then something like PowerQuest Lost & Found might do it (although the last version of PQLF was a long time ago and it doesn't handle drives bigger than 32GB...)
I'd suggest buying Norton Ghost and backing everything up next time
2007-12-31 06:42:03 · answer #3 · answered by krazykatignatz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dont worry mate, technology is soo good this day and age people have come up with something called www.getbackdata.net
i bet you could recover at least 80% of what youve lost.
good luck
2007-12-31 06:41:39 · answer #4 · answered by BananaMan 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
u cannot simply delete the whole hard drive man unless you formatted it? for your info, window will block u from deleting your whole hard drive coz the system is still running in it. If you formatted it, then that is another story.. but u can still recover it. Plug the hard drive to other PC, run GetDataBack software and select the file to recover. This is not a simple point and click task and it is time consuming. but if the data is valuable, its worth a shot. I have once recovered a 15GB data from a 20GB formatted hard drive with this software..
2007-12-31 06:37:51 · answer #5 · answered by jackel_sinister 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you mean he system recovered to fix a problem and didn't realize that it would wipe out all your files? In that case and in many other cases I'd look into data recovery software, such as on www.downloads.com search "data recovery" ... if that does no good then you'll have to go to a computer specialist which can be expensive but may be the only way unless you have a friend who already has the knowledge and maybe even some special equipment to map out the hard drive. Hope that he didn't actually format it though, if that's the case it would likely be lost.
2007-12-31 06:37:25 · answer #6 · answered by too_live_forever 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Get some data recovery software, copy it onto CD or DVD using another PC, boot from the CD/DVD, run the recovery software.
2007-12-31 06:31:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
go to computer maagement bottom left and look for restoration pionts. if not go into bias but be carfull. you do this by constantly pressing f4 or f11 or f8 wilst your computor is switching on and before your computer comes on when you press on.
2007-12-31 06:31:53 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
tell me what he did and what you have on the screen
2007-12-31 06:31:49 · answer #9 · answered by david.rowbotham3@btopenworld.com 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's so done. Tell him their are easier ways to get the porn off his pc.
2007-12-31 06:31:29 · answer #10 · answered by Daniel R 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋