Where in your area Richard, is recovery of data from a HD by a service
affordable for a college student with average funds for a college student?

How much is the fee on average? Many of the services I've talked to want a
minimum of $1600.

How many college students do you know who have that kind of discretionary
money?

CH

"Richard G. Harper" wrote in message
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If your data is important to you, stop trying to recover it yourself and
take the computer to a professional who is skilled at data recovery.
Anything you try at this point could well be destroying the data that
remains on the drive to the point that even a professional cannot recover
it.

Oh, and for future information, consider backing up essential data and
documents to an external device, network drive, etc.

"r3n3r4d3" wrote in message
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Hi all

This is what happened

I woke up at 6 to go work, i left my laptop on all night, so i decided
to shut it off before i go to work.

I JUST came back, and when i start it, the HP loading screen works,
then it loaded in my vista home premium. i type my password, but it was
frozen already.

So i restarted my laptop. and it loads teh HP screen, then blank
screen. I tried to wait for 10-15 mins. still blank screen.

I tried to use the PHXBIOS and did a Hard Disk self test.

The status: #10009 - Replace Hard Disk

WHAT I DO?

OMG

ALL MY Univeristy homeworks in tehre !

:'(


PLEASE HELP!


I RAN SYSTEM STARTUP REPAIR USING VISTA RECOVERY DISC

AND THIS CAME OUT FROM THE RESULT:

root cause found:
system volume on disk is corrupt

Repair action: file system repair (chkdsk)
REsult: completed error code = 0x0
time taken = 312985 ms


so is my harddrive done?

Is there ANYTHING i can do? I really want to keep all my files.

Thanks


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r3n3r4d3