i did not make a backup recovery disk when i got my notebook. my notebook crashed, so i took it to best buy where i got, they fixed it and called me i need my recovery disks. where would i get those recovery disk.
To secure a computer, sometimes you have to erase data from your computer with certain methods or programs. I have wiped my free disk space. I am sure no one can recover private things, but how do you get disk space back? I can’t even save my ID! Delight someone place it on freewarefiles.com or sourceforge.net!
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Answer by Nick J The space should be available if you deleted the files there. Not sure what your problem is.
I have a 4YO Western Digital External Hard Drive. It stopped working 2 years ago and I haven’t done much with it. Unfortunatly it has several Wheeling Vids on it I want (That got pulled from YouTube) and I don’t have them on my Desk-Top, and so I was wondering if anyone had expereience with this.
The Drive size is 60 GB I reflect.
At any rate It powers up when I plug it in via USB but I hear a very soft clunk every now and then which leads me to judge that the needle on the drive is skipping.
The costs I am seeing are like 0. I won;t try and recover at that price. Can’t afford it.
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Answer by Staci J LOL, it’s a hard drive, not a record player. There is no needle, and not contact between read/write heads and disk occurs in a healthy drive. Instead, the read/write head floats on a thin moderate of air above the surface of the platter inside the drive and is close enough to read magnetic impulses.
As you probably known, clunking sounds aren’t a excellent thing. (I’m thinking it’s mostly likely one of the motors that is making the noise (any the motor that spins the platter, or the motor that moves the read/write heads)
Of course knowing the source of the clunking sound won’t help you much.
First of all, is Windows (or OS-X, Linux or whatever OS you are by) able to see the hard drive when it is connected via USB? If so, then try to copy the files you want quickly. (Don’t leave the drive turned on in anticipation of/unless you are ready to save your data)
If it can’t, the professional data recovery can be reasonably expensive. (0 for a drive sounds incredibly cheap. Are you sure of that price?) There is one thing worth trying that *MIGHT* help you save your data. It’s known as the “Freezer trick”. Essentially you want to wrap your hard drive in a zip lock bag tightly (moisture getting in will make a terrible circumstances worse) and throw it in the freezer for a day or so. They take it out, cross your fingers and hook it up and hope that it works long enough to save your data.
If your data was truly vital, I’d recommend professional recovery instead of the freezer trick, but it sounds like that is not the case. It is certainly worth a shot.
Also, just so you know I am not joking, here is the first article I Googled on the subject:
If you don’t like that article, there are 24,000 more at http://www.google.com/search?q=freezer+trick+hard+drive&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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On December 19, 2010,
in spyware,
by Julie_Andrews
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I have somehow installed win spy killer, and trying to get rid of that progra, malware 2008 was installed.
Now I need to get free spyware removal help tp get rid of both these programs.
PLEASE HELP !!!!!!
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Answer by Jak omg the same thing happen to me!!!!
xp antivirus 2008 downloaded and its pissing me off, lol. im asking questions also. try avast, it helped me with some of the virus.
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