Recovering from a vista laptop?

is there a way to recover files from a reformatted pc laptop with my MBP?

Are you saying you have reformatted a PC drive that is now connected or installed in your MBP or are you asking how to recover files on a reformatted drive in a PC? If the latter you would need to purchase recovery software that works on a PC. You cannot use OS X software to recover PC files on a PC formatted drive although you could give it a try. You would need recovery software for OS X:
General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten with recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
Much depends upon how you reformatted the drive. A standard full PC format (not a quick format) would render any data unrecoverable.

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Can this be done? the printer/scanner/copier works fine on the desktop via USB but not over my network from the laptop.

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When I replace my Vista desktop with a new one running Win 7, I no longer can print to my PSC 1315xi all-in-one from my Vista laptop. I have downloaded the driver onto my desktop but can't see the printer on it from my laptop.
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Hi all,
I'm posting this on my wife's account, since she owns the iPod in question, yet I'm lumped with trying to fix the thing.
For the fourth time, we've been broken into and on this occasion lost the laptop to which her iPod (which was not stolen) was authorised and synchronised. So what we have now is the situation where we have an iPod full of content that we can't do a **** thing with.
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o Installed iTunes 9.0.2.25 on Windows 7,
o Authorised the iPod again with the original account,
o Synchronised the iStore content back into the Library (and this is the point of contention)
What I can't seem to do is to synchronise "all" content. This software only lets me bring back into the Library content that was purchased through the store. How on earth is this a practical solution? The majority of the content is from our cd collection and the likes, and it's not particularly practical to have to sit down ripping content for the next weeks to months ahead trying to reconstruct the library as it exists now on the iPod.
I'm aware that I can copy the content in its raw format from the iPod at the filesystem level, but I'm unsure if there's any value in this, since the directory and file naming structure is randomised. There wouldn't be much point in bringing a directory named "AszDg" back onto the computer. I'm assuming the filenames wouldn't be an issue, since they should contain metadata with the correct information in them. But if the directory name is used in something like the "Artist" column, then that's the kind of thing I'm concerned about.
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Are you saying you have reformatted a PC drive that is now connected or installed in your MBP or are you asking how to recover files on a reformatted drive in a PC? If the latter you would need to purchase recovery software that works on a PC. You cannot use OS X software to recover PC files on a PC formatted drive although you could give it a try. You would need recovery software for OS X:
General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten with recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
Much depends upon how you reformatted the drive. A standard full PC format (not a quick format) would render any data unrecoverable.

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Hello there MicknMadd,
It sounds like one of your computers can see the others library and import from it, but the other does not. You've done a lot of great troubleshooting and verification already, and I would recommend steps 5-7 from the following article to help further troubleshoot:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
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Miketroach wrote:
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