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Answer» I installed a 80 gig wd harddrive in my HP Pavilion. Had a WD 40 gig as primary drive.All data on 40 was transferred to the 80.Due to ignorance, the 40 was "crashed" and is no LONGER operable.Using Recovery software was able to downloade the 40 data on 34 cds.All 34 disks loaded on the 80 yesterday. Now I need to know how to extract the files containing the data that was on the 40 and restore it to an easy useable source. I am elderly and not very well versed in computer use or repair. All help would be gratefully received.Like to help you but more details are needed. First you said you have the data on cds, that's a good start. What data recovery program did you use? Are you able to see the file extensions on the recovered files? If so what are they? It is important to know that because commonly data recovery programs may not distinguish what KIND of file to recover unless you specify what you want, otherwise it will just recover everything, which is a good thing because you can pick out what you want to keep by looking at the file extension. I installed a 80 gig wd harddrive in my HP Pavilion. Had a WD 40 gig as primary drive.All data on 40 was transferred to the 80.Due to ignorance, the 40 was "crashed" and is no longer operable.Using Recovery software was able to downloade the 40 data on 34 cds.All 34 disks loaded on the 80 yesterday. Now I need to know how to extract the files containing the data that was on the 40 and restore it to an easy useable source. I am elderly and not very well versed in computer use or repair. All help would be gratefully received.Quote Like to help you but more details are needed. First you said you have the data on cds, that's a good start. What data recovery program did you use? Are you able to see the file extensions on the recovered files? If so what are they? It is important to know that because commonly data recovery programs may not distinguish what kind of file to recover unless you specify what you want, otherwise it will just recover everything, which is a good thing because you can pick out what you want to keep by looking at the file extension.Quote QuoteLike to help you but more details are needed. First you said you have the data on cds, that's a good start. What data recovery program did you use? Are you able to see the file extensions on the recovered files? If so what are they? It is important to know that because commonly data recovery programs may not distinguish what kind of file to recover unless you specify what you want, otherwise it will just recover everything, which is a good thing because you can pick out what you want to keep by looking at the file extension. This sounds like a royal mess. I would contact Recover My Files and see how the restore is set up and what you need to do to access your data. Hi, The first thing you need to do is so make sure all your recovered folders and files are seperated from your OSs folders and files. Data recovery is a messy job, the last thing you want is to mix them with the OS and your other appllications files. So create a work folder, put all your recovered data in that folder and work witnin it. Like I said before, data recovery program dumps every single bit of data it can find indiscriminately, so it up to you to sort it out. Looking at what you have, here is a break down: 1. I will start with the doc and set folder. This is the folder that's likely to contain files such as your pictures and documents. What do you have in this folder? 2. [highlight]1386[/highlight]: Are you sure it's not [highlight]i386[/highlight]? if in deed it says [highlight]i386[/highlight], you can just junk it. 3. ntfs partition 1: this might contain internal file data. Set it aside for now. 4. ftw: not sure what it is, set it aside for now. 5. program files: forget about this one, whatever data in it is useless. 6. ntsf patition 2: same as #3. 7. wu temp: most likely useless, but put it aside. 8. icon excel: not sur if you mean [highlight]icon[/highlight], [highlight]excel[/highlight] ? or just [highlight]icon excel,[/highlight] but put it asid anyway. 9. cmcms:not sure what it is, put it aside. 10. doc: this one could be usefull, . Must keep it. 11. hp,inet: thiese two are useless. The real fun begins here: "I see 27 folders starting with Di5 Registry entries, Di18-has some Quick books data that i need to recover. Di27 has some saved emails that i would like to recover.Di61 contains 28 folders. " This is real data chunk where it contains data from the registry, from your system on to your emails to your Quick books to whatever... It's jungle here cuz it's hard to tell the useful data from the useless data. You [highlight]MUST NOT[/highlight] delete anything here ubtill you have a clearer idea, the useful data here could related to what you found in other places. Hope this helps. Write back with your finding result. B.thanks. I am elderly, no computer hand so i will recover the essential files in quicken and quickbooks and slowly try to recover the rest as my temperment will allow. People like you are a blessing to us ametuers that have more prbolems than money to pay the local experts for this kind of help. If we do not correspond anymore before Christmas, may I wish you and yours a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEARYou are most welcome. Gook luck with it. Wish you a happy holiday too. B. |
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