Doing system recovery

[a7med_360]

Hey, ok i called sony about my corrupted windows on ar21s they said they cant extract the data because there not liable for that, they said i have to go 2 a pc specialist to do that, pc world do it for £29.99 a GB and i have around 25GB so thats around £600+.....my laptop is under warraty why cant they do it....the man also said ill have to do a full system recovery will this delete my partitions i have? because some data is backed up on the partition! txxx

[a7med_360]

Anyone?

[apierc1]

That seems excessive to extract data, although I'm no expert in the field, perhaps there is a small pc shop that can give you a quote, i would have thought if you provided an external drive or something it should just be a set cost plus the price of the ext. drive. Are you sure the price isn't £29.99 then £3 or something per Gb after that?

[Dekesh]

this will not delete the partitions if you do a c drive recovery. only the contents of the c drive will be lost. what you could try is to connect your hard-drive to another computer and copy the data of it.

another thing u can try is to get hold of a windows xp CD and boot it up and just to repair the installation but im not sure if this will help. maybe someone can clarify this

[a7med_360]

i tried the windows recovery console it didnt work, how would i connect my hard drive to another pc? the thing is pc world has had my laptop for 3days and they havent been able to extract the data so i dont think i will be able to....im going to pick it up now and do a system recovery ........so your sure the sony system recovery kit wont delete my partitions because it does say it will return the hard drive to original state

[apierc1]

You have 3 options on a System Recovery, the "recommended" one resotres the C: Drive partition to the factory settings, any data on this drive/partition will be lost, if you have data saved on the 😧 drive the data should be fine.

[Blencogo]

As Dekesh suggests (and I mentioned in your other thread on this) you need to borrow a XP Pro installation disc. You will not be copying anything from this disc or doing anything illegal - but just using the basic Windows files to boot into the Recovery Console. You can then manually copy your last Registry backup and restore it. The Dell disc you have will not do the job.

This is your best bet at recovering your data because you have two hard drives in RAID 0 striped configuration - recovery from this RAID Volume may be difficult.

If I were you, I would back up your data as soon as you can and carry out a Full System Recovery - from your postings on this Forum your system has been unstable for months. Just recover Drive C: (I think this is the default) which will not touch any files you have stored on drive D:.