data loss

I've got an out of warranty drive that has a bunch of bad sectors, which I'm going to replace with a new drive. The fact that the drive still works (after doing chkdsk) raises a question in my mind about a program called Hard Drive Regenerator. I understand that there is more than one reason...

Today I tried to save a file to my flash drive and found that when I saved the file it also created a shortcut for the file. I attempted to delete the file, I was able to delete it but then a second later the file returned. I thought maybe it was the flash drive but when I was searching my...

i put win win8 only because i can only do things on win8 i have desktop with win7 but i cant access it very well/not at all. so i am having problems accessing my toshiba canvio 1tb 3.0 usb drive i have lots of info hopefully someone can help. chkdsk shows an error (696e647863686b2e 1234) with...

I need to transfer all my emails from entourge 2008 that runs in mac book pro over to windows outlook 2010. I have a huge collection of important mails that I can't afford to loose at any cost, arranged in many folders. So how can this migration of entourage 2008 to outlook 2010 be done without...

I'm trying to fix an office computer that someone used before me. The PC is running Windows 7 Home premium (service pack 1) 64 bit. There are two major problems with it that I believe are connected or caused by the same issue. Here is what happened: I started deleting programs from the...

When Windows is reinstalled from the disc (from the "F8" boot window), is the hard drive reformatted automatically? If not how can I achieve this?

Hello I have two Internal Hard disks in my system. First one is partitioned and used for system. i don't have problem on this hard disk. My second hard disk is 500 GB, and is not partitioned. I m using this drive for storing movies and music. The problem I faced is two of the folders are...

Another of my WDC drives is biting the dust (WD30EZRX)...not that it seems to matter what the model is, because I've now owned a number of WDC drives, and none of them has lasted through their warranty period. It seems to be becoming a vicious RMA circle. The drive that I'm now having to...

hey guys, i have a win7 pro, Sony Vaio Laptop, 500GB Hard Disk with 4GB Ram. my hard disk space has been fluctuating for a couple of days. From what i was sure of, or at least the stable remaining memory left in my C Drive Hard Disk was around 5 GB or something, however today i logged and...

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Hello All, I seem to have encountered a strange problem with my external hdd (Transcend Storejet 1.5TB). For some reason the volume label changed to the label of another external hdd (same type). That's not really a problem but a large number of folders and files disappeared. I've tried...

Hi Background: I bought Windows 7 Home Edition disc but then upgraded online to Pro so I don't have a disc for Pro Edition. When I got an error message about hal.dll not working, and could neither restore to an earlier point nor get the OS to fix itself, someone in another Forum told me to...

I've posted a couple of questions in the past regarding hard drive problems, but not quite like this one. Due to the fact that my Windows 7 installation has become especially sluggish lately, I've been looking at a number of possibilities for dealing with it, including a clean installation of...

Trying to figure out how to restore the old system image on the left. Just made the one on the right. When I try to restore the info is not recognized. Link Removed

I have had many problems using this Box (primarily my fault) and I don't really need all the facilities offered by it. So, I was thinking of taking out the 2 1TB HDD and with a HDD Docking Station, using them as off-line storage, However, I was wondering if it is at all possible to turn the box...

I was writing scripts in batch file......But after some time, explorer started crashing repeatedly n frequently, so i had to do the system restore in safe mode.....After system restore, i lost my batch file,which is very important. So i wanted to undo the restore, but it is not available, i...

First note these point: * I have Windows XP installed on my desktop computer & due to some reason or virus my 5 drive partitions of windows got merged. * Somehow I was able to get the data out of these merged drives & transferred it in a portable harddrive. * That harddrive was of FAT32 format...

I am dual booting win8 and win7. I actually have win8 installed on its own hard drive and win 7 installed in its own hard drive. The win7 hard drive has been in use for the past 2 years and I have had Win8 running for about a week now. I purchased another hard drive for Win8 and left the old...

hi i want to create a system image and save it to an alternate hard drive, however I am wondering if it will erase all the data of that drive? Does it need to format or be on a clean drive? Or can I do it and it will make a file or directory despite there being other data on there... kinda...

I have an external hard drive that I'm downloading a bunch of media onto, and my main PC hard drive is supposed to have 321 GB of free space, but ever since I've been downloading all kinds of stuff onto my external HD my main HD is filling up really quick even though I'm not downloading anything...