Solve : Restoring Lap after setting it to factory settings...?

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Answer» Ok feel a little dumb right now, my lap top CRASHED the other night, I did a restore back to factory settings so now its lost all my data that I had on it but has it? Can I restore it back before it crashed on me and I set it back to factory settings? Any help advice would be appreciatedPlease tell us what you did to restore it to factory settings. Tell us such things as - did you press a key (which one?) at startup and choose something (what?) from a menu? Or did you use a manufacturer's rescue disk or disk set? Also a description of the crash might be useful. I turned the laptop on and it turned it on ok at first, then in the bottom right hand corner the VOLUME control there was a cross over it. When hoovering the mouse over it, it said sound control not installed. So turned off and on again then it said installing windows files then said system failed to restart. It came up with a SCREEN to restore settings but only thing I could get it to do was factory restore. Its now lost all my data that was on there - stupid of me not to have a back up I know - im learning the hard way! But just wondered is any of it recoverable?Quote from: November10 on August 14, 2011, 04:12:34 AM But just wondered is any of it recoverable? Depends what you mean by "recoverable". The data is no longer accessible because the PARTITION that it was on has been overwritten. The ghost of some of it (so to speak) may exist on the disk and sometimes (rarely) it may be possible to recover some of the data by taking the hard disk out, mounting it in another computer and running a data recovery tool and waiting to see if it finds anything that can be salvaged. Another option would be to take the laptop to a data recovery company. This can be very expensive ($1,000 or more) and there is no guarantee of success. The chances of recovery GO down the more you use the system after the factory restore as well. ok thanks. Looks like all is lost then.

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Ok feel a little dumb right now, my lap top CRASHED the other night, I did a restore back to factory settings so now its lost all my data that I had on it but has it? Can I restore it back before it crashed on me and I set it back to factory settings? Any help advice would be appreciatedPlease tell us what you did to restore it to factory settings. Tell us such things as - did you press a key (which one?) at startup and choose something (what?) from a menu? Or did you use a manufacturer's rescue disk or disk set? Also a description of the crash might be useful.

I turned the laptop on and it turned it on ok at first, then in the bottom right hand corner the VOLUME control there was a cross over it. When hoovering the mouse over it, it said sound control not installed. So turned off and on again then it said installing windows files then said system failed to restart. It came up with a SCREEN to restore settings but only thing I could get it to do was factory restore. Its now lost all my data that was on there - stupid of me not to have a back up I know - im learning the hard way! But just wondered is any of it recoverable?Quote from: November10 on August 14, 2011, 04:12:34 AM

But just wondered is any of it recoverable?

Depends what you mean by "recoverable". The data is no longer accessible because the PARTITION that it was on has been overwritten. The ghost of some of it (so to speak) may exist on the disk and sometimes (rarely) it may be possible to recover some of the data by taking the hard disk out, mounting it in another computer and running a data recovery tool and waiting to see if it finds anything that can be salvaged. Another option would be to take the laptop to a data recovery company. This can be very expensive ($1,000 or more) and there is no guarantee of success. The chances of recovery GO down the more you use the system after the factory restore as well.

ok thanks. Looks like all is lost then.

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