data recovery

When you secure erase entire SSD; do you wipe out the whole drive (all partitions); or "System Reserved" partition is untouched?

Tried installing Lubuntu on my D: drive which contains only files, no OS! But when i selected this drive in the boot options got message "Bootmgr is missing". Lubuntu gives the option to select which partition should contain the "Bootmgr", and i selected the same partition for the OS to be...

I wanted to set up another account in my Windows 7 PC for my daughter so she could have her own desktop , bookmarks and everything. I somehow ended up with all my stuff going under her user name. All my settings are now associated with her and I am on a new account! I don't know how to go...

When one re-installs windows7 from scratch, what part of the hard drive does it write itself on? Will it overwrite old data, so to speak starting from the first place on the hard drive or will it rather first write in between un-used space? Would it make a difference if the old data had bean...

Hey everyone, Please help me! I tried to install Kali Linux on my pendrive, but it was not complete due to some partition problem and I aborted the installation, after which my device restarted. But after the HP logo, the screen became black and unresponsive. I powered off by power button and...

Hello: Kinda related to a previous thread, but not the same question so..... Awhile back, I backed up my iPhone 5S to a computer. I have sensitive data on in (on the strong end, my clients personal financial data/SSN/cc numbers). I need/want to securely remove all of my phones backup data from...

Original release date: July 01, 2017 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows operating systems Overview On June 27, 2017, NCCIC was notified of Petya ransomware events occurring in multiple countries and affecting multiple sectors. Petya ransomware encrypts the master boot records of infected...

Hi everyone, I'm having a similar issue , when my HP all in one pavillion model 23-p108a tries to boot the screen goes blue with the crash code stating that hard drive is not mountable , so i tried to test the hardware which tested all , memory and hardrive and everything else and it was all...

I “used” to have a .docx file on my desktop but somehow it has disappeared. I searched my hard drive and search finds the file but when I click to open I get the following message: Windows cannot fine ‘file:///c:/<file name> Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. Is there...

I know this is a familiar problem, but the explanations I've seen for it are very lengthy, and they didn't seem to apply to my exact problem. Please advise. I get this message: "You don't currently have permission to access this folder. Click continue to permanently get access to this folder...

I recently lost everything on my Windows Vista hard drive, however I had everything backed up on Easeus Todo data recovery which I discovered stores everything on PBD files which can only be recovered through Easeus. My problem is that I now have a computer running Windows 7 and the original...

Hi All, Good Day. I have a user which hard disk falling soon, and I have backed the data, but however the come of the pst is had error opening and SCANPST can't repair it, during the file consistency check it failed and get "An unexpected error prevented access to this file. Use a disk error...

What is the procedure for performing a ROLLBACK; to a Hibernation Point, NOT a restor pointe. Objective: To delete a boot virus before it can install.; /* For example, someone has seen your password and had wireless access.*/ ROLLBACK to last Hibernation Point; ROLLBACK to last Hibernation...

On one of my (older) computers there is a defect sector on the hard disk. Checking the surface of the hard disk shows a red square for it. It seems to me that all the "usual" reserve sectors are already in use. Every thing else works on this computer. No unusual noise comes from the hard disk...

Hi, My wife's laptop was sluggish and full, so I decided to do a reset (save personal files). During the reset... about 2 hours in. It decided to freeze... non responsive. No further progression in the reset. I waited another hour to try anything, just in case. After 3 hours of it being stuck I...

Hi, In my Hd, c:, I have the following folders $winre_backup_partition.marker, windows.old, windows, $windows-WS, $windows-BT. Can u please tell me which version of windows are they and how to use. Cannot recall when Microsoft created and for which Windows. ie Windows 7, windows 8, or windows...

I am trying to recover a friend's info from the HD of her defunct laptop. So I have my laptop which is W10 these days, and I put the HD into my USB3 drive. I set the boot device to the USB drive, but it just wont boot from there. I have terms like 'legacy' in the boot settings screen - not sure...

I recently had to restore a windows 7 computer. When I restored my media files, they were already formatted to windows 10. Now the windows 7 computer won't read any of the playlists. As much as I've tried, I can't find a way to get the playlists to work again in the older format. Any ideas how...

Hi - I am very proud that I was able to remove failed drive and replace it with a new one. I am not a tekkie person. This is for Dell 2305 all in one system. Anyway, I ran the system recovery disks that I made when I purchased the system 5 years ago. Everything was getting installed - system was...

Situation: Secondary HDD contains previous installation's Windows folder which my current Win10 account cannot delete even as admin. Solution: I'm assuming that I'd need to first take ownership then change the permissions to give full control. However this is an old hard drive, and since my...