Big Formatting Problems

azure_8 · 04-11-2006, 04:09 AM

Hi Guys, I have just joined the forum and I have a problem I am facing right now. The other day, I was working on the laptop, and all of a sudden it started showing a lot of activity and got stuck, I had to force reboot it, After it was rebooted, it did the same thing again, so I force reboot it again, and after that it just wouldnt start up, I tried everything but it just wouldnt, the C Drive was being shown as corrupted, It kepts asking me to format. Today I used the recovery cd that came with my Acer Laptop, and got it working again. However, ofcourse all of the data from C is gone. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease tell me if there is anyway I can retrieve it. I have very important Invoices and job details and ofcourse emails on it, that I do need badly. Please don't tell me that nothing can be done.... I am really desperate here.

Inactive · 04-11-2006, 04:54 AM

i haven't had the need to use this software, so i don't know how good it is. hopefully it might help

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

**linderman** · 04-11-2006, 05:14 PM

Welcome to TSF:

I hate to be a poop head here >>>>> but the time to ask what to do or what conquences your "plan" might have is prior to jumping in >>>>>>

the restore cd may very well have overwritten your data >>>>> unless someone chimes in here with a "undo" restore that I am unaware of >>>> I think the outcome is going to be negative for you. A repair install would have done the job for you without losing your data >>>> but its a hind sight solution >>>>>> we have all made similar mistakes and I personally regret not being able to deliver more postive news and solutions.

azure_8 · 04-12-2006, 01:52 PM

Ty for welcoming me to the forum linderman.

Actually the program that freddyhard told me is working quite good, I can even see the files from year 2004 on it, that is when I got the laptop. It is a hard task going through each and every cluster but atleast its doing its job, and I have found most of my major files from it. But I am open to new ideas and suggestion as to what I should do if it ever happens in the future.....

Inactive · 04-13-2006, 02:05 AM

it's good that you're finding your files, but you could have learnt the hard way. definitely post a question here first if you are in doubt about what you should do to fix a problem. it might save you time and the techs here have alot of experience at this sort of stuff

azure_8 · 04-13-2006, 07:16 AM

Now that I have downloaded most of the files needed. I am encountering some problem. Although I can open most of the files but there still are a few PDF files that I cant open up, says they might have been an email attachment of corrupt encoding. How can I fix that? if there any program to fix a corrupt PDF????? The other problem is that I still can not find 2 major excel files. I went through all the clusters but those excel files are not there. What I noticed was that in this prog 3 files were the major ones that showed, pictures, .doc and .pdf the rest were system files etc, so is it a possibility that it might not show the excel files? Should I try some other program to retrieve those?

Terrister · 04-13-2006, 10:28 AM

You could try a program like this. http://www.officerecovery.com/pdf/index.htm

As to how to handle this in the future. If it is important, back it up. You never know when a problem like this will pop up. I for one hate to be the Tech that walks in and has to tell you there is no way to get your data back.

azure_8 · 04-13-2006, 11:29 AM

is there any free program out there for correcting the corrupt PDFs?

04-11-2006, 04:09 AM	#1 (permalink)
azure_8 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 4 OS: WinXP	Big Formatting Problems Hi Guys, I have just joined the forum and I have a problem I am facing right now. The other day, I was working on the laptop, and all of a sudden it started showing a lot of activity and got stuck, I had to force reboot it, After it was rebooted, it did the same thing again, so I force reboot it again, and after that it just wouldnt start up, I tried everything but it just wouldnt, the C Drive was being shown as corrupted, It kepts asking me to format. Today I used the recovery cd that came with my Acer Laptop, and got it working again. However, ofcourse all of the data from C is gone. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease tell me if there is anyway I can retrieve it. I have very important Invoices and job details and ofcourse emails on it, that I do need badly. Please don't tell me that nothing can be done.... I am really desperate here.

04-11-2006, 04:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
Inactive Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,704 OS: ~	i haven't had the need to use this software, so i don't know how good it is. hopefully it might help http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm __________________ "it takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen" Homer

04-11-2006, 05:14 PM	#3 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 21,808 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Welcome to TSF: I hate to be a poop head here >>>>> but the time to ask what to do or what conquences your "plan" might have is prior to jumping in >>>>>> the restore cd may very well have overwritten your data >>>>> unless someone chimes in here with a "undo" restore that I am unaware of >>>> I think the outcome is going to be negative for you. A repair install would have done the job for you without losing your data >>>> but its a hind sight solution >>>>>> we have all made similar mistakes and I personally regret not being able to deliver more postive news and solutions. __________________ Power Supply Selection If you think a poor quality power supply cant make weird issues; think again!http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...ubleshoot.html http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...ml#post2598903

04-13-2006, 02:05 AM	#5 (permalink)
Inactive Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,704 OS: ~	it's good that you're finding your files, but you could have learnt the hard way. definitely post a question here first if you are in doubt about what you should do to fix a problem. it might save you time and the techs here have alot of experience at this sort of stuff __________________ "it takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen" Homer

04-12-2006, 01:52 PM	#4 (permalink)
azure_8 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 4 OS: WinXP	Ty for welcoming me to the forum linderman. Actually the program that freddyhard told me is working quite good, I can even see the files from year 2004 on it, that is when I got the laptop. It is a hard task going through each and every cluster but atleast its doing its job, and I have found most of my major files from it. But I am open to new ideas and suggestion as to what I should do if it ever happens in the future.....

04-13-2006, 07:16 AM	#6 (permalink)
azure_8 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 4 OS: WinXP	Now that I have downloaded most of the files needed. I am encountering some problem. Although I can open most of the files but there still are a few PDF files that I cant open up, says they might have been an email attachment of corrupt encoding. How can I fix that? if there any program to fix a corrupt PDF????? The other problem is that I still can not find 2 major excel files. I went through all the clusters but those excel files are not there. What I noticed was that in this prog 3 files were the major ones that showed, pictures, .doc and .pdf the rest were system files etc, so is it a possibility that it might not show the excel files? Should I try some other program to retrieve those?

04-13-2006, 10:28 AM	#7 (permalink)
Terrister Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: West Georgia, USA Posts: 7,095 OS: Xp	You could try a program like this. http://www.officerecovery.com/pdf/index.htm As to how to handle this in the future. If it is important, back it up. You never know when a problem like this will pop up. I for one hate to be the Tech that walks in and has to tell you there is no way to get your data back.

04-13-2006, 11:29 AM	#8 (permalink)
azure_8 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 4 OS: WinXP	is there any free program out there for correcting the corrupt PDFs?