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Triquatra
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Posted - 2013/10/02 : 14:13:00

:D Honestly can't remember if I fixed the laptop - I think in the end I got what I could off it and my ex sent the HDD off and dell replaced it under the extended warranty.

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Posted - 2013/10/02 : 14:19:02

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Originally posted by djDMS:

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Originally posted by Triquatra:
im still awake haha, been awake since 9am on the 12th, im still pretty awake, and im still working on the laptop...! im tempted to see how long i can remain awake hehe..

Mo's laptop crashed, she wasnt doing anything major...and when she tried to boot it back up it said "no boot sector" and so the fun began...

..i ran fixboot...fixmbr...and got rid of the problem...

the when you tried to boot it , it said "ntldr is missing"
so then began the copying of various files from 4 differnt windows disks trying to get it to recognise the file...no luck, so then its back over to the xp recovery disk..and it asks for the admin password to the hard drive..she couldnt think of it...neither could i, so i logged onto a password recovery site, with a cd image i had to burn...which chucks out a code, which the site translates...turns out that the password is 8 letters long, and U is the second letter...if i want the rest of the letters i either have to wait 48 hours...or pay them $15...so i waited 48 hours, only to find out, that the password is very very very very recognisable...its one of my low level passwords lol...so im like - wtfff!!..turns out the code it chucked out was for my external hard drive..48 hours wasted!..so after trying everything...all over...again. i give up, i turn to mo and give her the bad news..."babe, i cant save your stuff"

so shes upset...and i get back to the laptop..thinking "shit, i have to make this work. so much of her stuff is on there"...

so i start playing around in the command prompt in the xp recovery console...turns out that the laptop is only detecting 10mb...

...thats it...10mb...the entire drive..so im thinking, thats not right, its a 40gb hard drive - leading me to belive that the data is still there, but in a differnt partition or somthing, which it cant boot into, and the partiton its trying to boot into...has nothing on it..blank...no wonder it wouldnt boot.

so - next was to fix the ****ed up boot sectors, but how to even start with that?
a friend of mine suggested

"Windows PE" or rather "Bart PE" which was built on "Windows PE" which stands for "Windows Preinstallation Enviroment" basically its a version of windows, a mini version, that runs completely off a cd! leaving your hard disk pretty much idle so you can use other software in the form of plug ins to save your stuff!

so off i go...i burn about 8 or 9 (im not kidding) cd versions of windows pe, with differnt plug-ins on, trying to find one that will work.....you see, i found a plug in that would let me recover the files, it detected all of them...but refused to let me extract them - which also brought up problem 2...where to extract them to?!

of course the answer was my external hard drive, but even after 7 burns i had still forgotten to add the "usb support" plug in to it, so off to burning again

now it was detecting my usb external hard drive - but still not letting me rip files off the disk! so that was the next problem and last one (i hope) that im going to have

which brings us up to date, over 24 hours i have been working on this laptop, trying to save it for her, and now i have found a program that appears to be ripping the files good....

so, "WHAT THE HELL" i hear you all shout "why the hell did he bother writting all that out"

well, the answer is simple, this file extract program is freeeeeking slow, its going at 1% every 4 minutes........very slow

so im sitting here on the pc, watching it rip, and its just reached 94% so even when i stop writting this..theres still going to be at least 30mins left...

oh ...basically the hard disk crashed, and im trying to save it

*cough*

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