Recovery of a drive

I bought a new laptop of HP pav G series, & wish to take a recovery .... How do i do tha??

recovery of a drive on dvd .... that comes along in D-drive of apprx size of 13.7gb .... dont know much abt this !! sorryyy

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IPhone 4 Apple Recovery (DFU) USB Driver NEED HELP!!

Hello,
My iPhone 4 got version 4.2.1 but when i go to computer > properties >device management then i see: Apple Recovery (DFU) USB Driver.
I know that it is in dfu mode but i really dont know how i can get out of here. I tried everything what i can do i tried now 3 days to fix this but i dont have any results. My iphone 4 wont turn on but when i connect it with my computer than it says it is in recovery mode. So does anyone know how i fix Apple Recovery (DFU) USB Driver??????????

Jailbreaking is bad mmmkay.
To get it out of DFU, generally hold down both the Power/Wake button and the Home button together for ten seconds, then release the Power/Wake button and keep holding Home until the White Apple shows up on screen. (Literally the same thing you would have done to put it into DFU in the first place..)

Apple recovery (DFU) usb driver

Hi Guys..
My ipod classic 80gb wont load in itunes, and it only comes up as an Apple Recovery (DFU) usb driver in the device manager...
All i want is to use my ipod again. What do i need to do, do i have to download a new driver or something. I have reinstalled itunes and tried to find DFU drivers but nothing is working. I havent got a clue now what to do.. The ipod is useless right now, just a black screen =(
Please help..

Try to manually put the iPod into disk mode:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
Then connect to iTunes and try to Restore it:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1339?viewlocale=en_US

Data Recovery - External Hard Drive

Hi,
I have recently copied over a folder on my iOmega (Prestige Portable) External Hard Drive with a folder from my Power Book Hard Drive, with the replace all.
What I need to know is there a way to step back to the point before I copied over this folder?
Ok so here comes the Dumb bit, I have never set up Time Machine! Yes I know, very stupid!
So I'm now in the process of seeing if it is possible to step back with data recovery software and if this is possible what do people reccomend! I have tried SanDisk RescuePro but It comes up with a message saying that the drive is too big, I think it is meant for Flash Drives!
Have I posted this in the right Discussion thread? If not were do you think I would be best to post this?
Thanks

Johno11111 wrote:
Ok so here comes the Dumb bit, I have never set up Time Machine! Yes I know, very stupid!
Us mere mortals do tend to learn things the hard way, don't we?
So I'm now in the process of seeing if it is possible to step back with data recovery software and if this is possible what do people reccomend!
FIrst, stop using the drive immediately. If the files haven't been overwritten already, the more you use it, the more likely that is.
There are several Data Recovery apps for Macs; +Data Rescue II+ seems to be the one mentioned here most often, but others get good reviews, too. I've not used any, so can't say one is better than another.
I understand you'll need another external disk to receive the recovered files. (But you'll probably need one anyway for Time Machine or other backup app that you'll be using regularly from now on, right? You can use a second internal HD, Time Capsule, or in some cases back-up over your network.)
I also understand that some of these apps have a trial version that will tell you whether there's anything to be recovered, and perhaps recover a single file, so you don't spend the $$ for nothing.
Look for +Data Recovery+ via Google, VersionTracker.com or MacUpdate.com. The last two have user reviews. Just be certain whatever you use is compatible with Leopard.
And/or, search for +Data Recovery+ in the Using Leopard forum.
Once this is sorted out (or to explore Time Machine options), you might want to review these:
Time Machine Tutorial
Time Machine 101
How to back up and restore your files
Time Machine Features
Apple - Support - Mac OSX v10.5 Leopard Time Machine
and perhaps browse the Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum.

Data Recovery After Hard Drive Failure!

Ok, basically, I've got a 2 1/2 year old iBook G4 with a bombed hard drive, and unfortunately, the last time I backed up was around 3 months ago. Here's what happened right before the crash: some applications like Widgets and Safari were acting fluky, and it wouldn't let me open Word documents, so I restarted, because I thought it might have something to do with the fact that i had downloaded the new version of itunes not that long ago and hadn't restarted since. well, when i restarted, the gray screen with the wheel and the apple symbol went on for a really long time, and then the blue screen came up with the cursor, but nothing else happened, and the blue screen just stayed there. as far as i know, the hard drive wasn't making any unusual noises, just the usual occasional soft sounds that my hard drive has always made (there are usual sounds, right?) a piece of information that might be useful is that the hard drive was almost full (it only had about 5 GB left, which i understand is how much you should leave) could this have caused the failure maybe? anyway, i tried using the hard drive as a target and tried getting another computer to recognize it and pull the files off, but that didn't work. so, i brought it into the apple store, and they got it to boot up but using some external hard drive, i think. they tried disk utility, but that didn't see my hard drive. then the tried disk warrior, and that saw it and repaired it or something, but then it couldn't get the drive to mount. so, i'm assuming that because disk warrior didn't work and couldn't get it to mount, then other software like data rescue, etc... won't either. like all computer users, i've got some REALLY REALLY important data on there, and all the data recovery places i've gotten quotes from are pretty pricey. if the drive doesn't require physical data recovery, only non-physical, as i hope, the cheapest is still $350. even so, the person on the phone there didn't seem to know nearly as much as the people at the more pricier places. so, are there any other options besides expensive data recovery? i read something about using dd - a unix thing, but i don't know the first thing about it (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050302225659382) so i'm not sure i want to risk messing it up even more. and, if worse comes to worst, then i'll use a data recovery place... but can anyone tell me if they've used any of the data recovery companies below, and which ones are good?
(first three do evaluation for free, and then you decide if you want to continue based on more accurate price idea)
MacintoshDataRecovery.com
$500 non physical
$1100-1600 physical
Heroic Efforts
http://www.heroicdata.com/data_recovery
$350 non physical
ships to another (very expensive) place if physical
ACS Data Recovery
http://www.acsdata.com/index.htm
$600-700 non physical
DriveSavers.com
(recommended by Apple, probably the best, but the most steep, too)
could cost anywhere from $500-$2700 and $200 evaluation fee even if data is unrecoverable
Since this is our fourth hard drive failure in four different iBooks in 2 1/2 years, i am starting to become seriously disillusioned about the quality of the hardware Apple uses...not that i would ever get a dell or anything, but still....
THANK YOU in advance for any tips you might be able to offer, and also for reading this extremely long post!
katie
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I have read good reports concerning Data Rescue although I have not used it myself.
Once you get your data back, focus on a regular (even daily) backup routine, because as you know only so well, the question is not if a drive will fail, it's when.
My condolences, by the way.

HP Pavilion g6 Notebook recovery following hard drive replacement

After replacing a failed hard drive with the same Samsung/Seagate ST500LM012 that came in the notebook I now cannot recover the factory settings. I continue to get the "Bootmgr is missing" error, even after trying three different recovery oiptions through the HP Recovery Manager (Factory Reset, System Recovery and Minimized Image Recovery). I have also tried the various bootrec comands posted in the HP forums that are suposed to fix the MBR (FixMbr, FixBoot and Rebuildbcd) and it always seems to indicate that no Windows installation were found and therefore doesn't give me the option to "add installation to boot list?". I also reset the BIOS settings to original.
The closest I got to a successful installation was when I selected the "Minimized Image Recovery" option, however it had an error late in the installation and when it restarted it came up with errors that it could not find HideCMD.vbs and HideEXE.vbs in C:\system.sav\Util\TDCTWKS\.
I am using the Recovery Disk set that I made when I purchased the notebook, and it does not give me a Startup Repair option.
Am I just not following the correct procedure, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hello @shredder126,
I have read your post on how your notebook computer is experiencing an issue with the Boot Manager after installing a new SSD. I would be happy to assist you in this matter!
To further diagnose this issue, I recommend following the steps in this document on Troubleshooting HP System Recovery Problems (Windows 7). This should help to successfully recover your operating system.
If the issue continues, please follow the steps in this resource on Obtaining HP Recovery Discs or an HP USB Recovery Drive to repair the Master Boot Record.
I would also encourage you to post your product number for your computer. Below is a is an HP Support document that will demonstrate how to find your computer's product number.
How Do I Find My Model Number or Product Number?
Please re-post with the results of your troubleshooting, and I look forward to your reply!
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IPhone 3Gs stuck in recovery mode, NO DRIVER!

I clicked the update to install. After it finished iTunes poped up and error and said it did not complete. After that, my phone went into recovery mode and is asking for a driver that is not on my pc.
It states "Apple Mobile Device (Recovery Mode)" in a new hardware window/bubble. I tell it to search and it doesn't find any drivers.
I have uninstalled itunes, rebooted pc, reinstalled itunes and still the same problem. I can see my backup for my iPhone in iTunes, but it no longer recognizes my phone.
Please help, anyone there that knows what to do?

Go into device manager and uninstall the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver which should be listed under USB Devices.
If it is not, it may be called Apple iBoot Recovery Driver or something like that.
Right click and click uninstall.
Restart the computer and see if that works.

Windows Vista/Service Pack 2-after performing a System Recovery my Hard Drive is full.

     I would like to thank you in advance for your patience. I am new to this forum solution method. I will do my best to explain what is happening with my computer without too much unnecessary information.
     My laptop is 2 yrs old and it all these error messages started popping up repeatedly. Windows Defender wouldn't open, system info errors, I/E crashes and so on. After numerous attempts to fix it myself, I asked Microsoft support for the solution.     M/S Tech Support instructed me to perform a System Recovery, through the startup/F-11 method and so I did. I followed all of M/S instructions and to skip the step for making a set of Backup disks, as well as the Recovery Manager's steps to complete the recovery. After all was done I noticed that all my personal files, (pic's, music, etc...), were gone and that my Hard Drive is out of space. I did a Disk Cleanup and defrag on both the C: and D: drives hoping that it would solve my problem. NOT!!! I have been looking through all the "Trouble shooting" support topics on both MS and HP. I have been afraid of doing any of the MANY suggested steps for fear of causing more damage.  The computer, except for the D: drive delima and Windows Defender not opening, seems to function properly, so I look at that as the real blessing in all this.
     Please help me by telling me that there is a way to fix the Hard drive and get Windows Defender to respond. Most importantly, how to go about getting it done. I just don't know how or why this happened.
     Thank you so much for your help. Nice to know that there are web sites and forums like these to go to for help. I look I look forward to your response.

This excerpt taken from HP manual for your computer.
On some models, you can perform a recovery from the partition on the hard drive from either the Start
button or f11. This restores the computer to it's factory condition.
To restore the system from the partition, follow these steps:
1. Access Recovery Manager in either of the following ways:
● Select Start > All Programs > Recovery Manager > Recovery Manager.
– or –
● Restart the computer and press f11 while the “Press <F11> for recovery” message is displayed
on the screen. Then select Recovery Manager.
Recovery Manager opens.
2. Click Advanced Options.
3. Click System recovery, and then click Next.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions
Does this sound like what you did?
Oh yeah, Your D:\ drive is your Recovery partition and you should never mess with it.
It contains all the information to restore your computer to factory condition.

System Image Recovery from Network Drive - not found

Hello all!
I have been routinely backuping my OS and important files using Windows 7 backup on a NAS. It just so happened that I needed to re-image my OS drive and I got into the Windows 8 recovery boot sequence.
I booted from a windows 8 USB stick and Under the Advanced tools I selected the System Image Recovery and tried to look for the system image on the network path. Although the prompt said it was connecting to the network , the network share was
not found. the command prompt couldn't ping google.com and netsh wlan <SSID> command did not work in hopes of connecting to my local wifi.
Is there a way to connect to the wifi network where my NAS is connected to in order to re-image from the system image found on the NAS? Luckily , there was an older image on a separate local HDD that I could re-image from but I would prefer if
I could connect to the NAS during the recovery process.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi,
First, I have to say that in WinRE, http and wifi is not supported, that's why you cannot ping google and connect to wifi.
To access NAS, we have to make sure that your network connection is wired, and try to manually location the NAS via
\\IP address\...
I will check if the Windows 7 image backup can be restored in WinRE of Windows 8, and update your soon.
Edit:
I have tried this, and it appeared that to restore Windows 7 image backup on this computer from Windows 8 winRE is not supported.
see following error:
Kate Li
TechNet Community Support

Ideacenter K330B One Key Recovery External Hard Drive

Hello, a few months back I made a full backup of my system to an external hard drive. I reached a point where it was just easiest to start my computer over using the One Key Recovery. I had to go with the factory settings at least temporarily. Is there anyway I can use the external hard drive backup to restore my stystem? The One Key system doesn't seem to agree with it.
Thank you for any replies.
Sorry if there is a post like this elsewhere. I tried to see if their was and didn't see any that applied directly to what I needed.

hi Nutcracker,
When you tried to restore your backup using OneKey Recovery, are you getting any specific error message?
Can you also try to:
1. Format the external HDD with NTFS (move your OneKey Recovery backup to another computer first)
2. Make external HDD's the partition active and copy back the OneKey Recovery backup image
3. Boot into OneKey Recovery 7.0 and try to restore your backup.
Let me know your findings
Regards,
neokenchi
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Data recovery after hard drive crash.

I've been using Palm Desktop Software 4.1.4 basically as a great Index Card app. My hard drive died but I recovered my DAT files from backups. On a new computer (Windows 7 x64) I reinstalled PDF 4.1.4 and added my .DAT files, but the software doesn't recognize them--nor will it allow me to use the User Names from the original installation. I tried re-installation x3 with no success--I repeated the process with the 6xx version of PDF, again with no success.
Is there any way I can retrieve my data and avoid having to re-type all of them?
Thanks. Haddox Sothoron
Post relates to: HP TouchPad (WiFi)

1.
If you can boot, try using a linux liveCD like systemrescue. Use a flash drive to copy everything to the flash drive.
2.
If you can't boot, then you can try connecting the drive from another computer - not sure how that works, but it has
been done before.
Here's some links from my website,
http://shengchieh.50webs.com/tuxslinks.html
http://www.sysresccd.org/ (non-commercial; SystemRescueCd)
http://www.mondorescue.org/ (non-commercial; Mondo)
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (non-commercial; TestDisk)
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec (non-commercial; PhotoRec)
https://grc.com/ (commercial; SpinRite)
These links are for linux systems, but some may be applicable for your machine.
http://www.antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.html (ReiserFS)
http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2008/08/recovering-deleted-files-by-inode.html (Recovering Deleted Files By Inode Number In Linux And Unix)
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/397719-repair-a-linux-file-system-and-reclaim-deleted-files (Reclaim Deleted Files and Repair Filesystems on Linux; 1/25/11)
If you need more, do a search for "data recovery".
Regardless, look at system rescue link first. And ask questions in their forum if you still have questions after reading
their docs, et.al.
Sheng-Chieh

Data recovery options if drive not accessible through Target Disk Mode

I have the classic data recovery question: my computer seems to have failed, and I'd like to save some data. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Details:
- Most recent backup was about a month ago to Time Machine (unfortunately, this laptop went off on a long trip and didn't have access to the destination disk, and then when it came home was running very slowly and my wife halted the TM backup thinking it was slowing the computer down). Some documents have been backed up more recently via Dropbox and/or Mozy, but not a couple important ones
- When booted in Target Disk Mode, no drive shows up on the computer to which I connect it
- When I boot from an OS X CD, a drive appears in Disk Utility with no volumes on it, and the options to 'repair disk' and 'verify disk' are greyed out.
- When I try to just start the computer up, it gets to the grey screen with the apple and just spins.
Questions:
- Should I attempt anything else myself? I've never learned about Lion's Recovery Mode; can it be used to copy some data off, in the unlikely case that this computer would boot into that Mode? Would any further attempts to boot, etc. potentially reduce the chances of a professional company recovering data?
- I'm planning to take this to an Apple Store today to confirm that this is indeed a hard drive problem and not a failed mother board or something; is there a way for me to do this myself? In the past I've used Hardware Test CDs from Apple and stuff; I don't know if those still work on modern computers.
Thanks again for any help!

I know I used to have a copy of Disk Warrior, but can't find it and it's probably out of date. I downloaded the Data Rescue demo, but it only got partway through scanning the disk and then failed. It told me to 'clone' the disk, but after about three days of trying still wasn't making much progress on it, so I gave up.
However, I was able to recover the few important files I needed simply by removing the drive, putting it in an enclosure, and connecting it via USB. After 10 or 20 minutes, Finder gave me a message that said something like, "this disk cannot be repaired, and is probably damaged. You can still access the disk, but copy everything off ASAP because it will probably fail soon." Some files indeed couldn't be copied, but I could copy the things I needed.
I assume that this is a hardware problem. To confirm, I assume that I can check it without having DiskWarrior simply by trying to reformat it? If it can't be reformatted, I assume there's no chance that it is a functioning drive. Is that right?

Data Recovery on External Drives

I have an external LaCie 200GB FireWire 400 drive, the F.A. Porsche one. While unmounting it before a trip I was in a hurry and unplugged the FireWire cable too soon and it came up with the customary message informing me as such. I paid it no mind as I was in a hurry and I'd done it once or twice before on accident and had suffered no wrath.
Anyway when I got home this evening I went to plug it in and found the drive unresponsive. I got a message saying I couldn't mount the volume but could initialise it in Disk Utility, so I did. The drive was showing but the volume with my data was gone, or rather it was showing up as "disk1s3" instead of "Rei" as it is named.
I tried the following steps to recover my data:
1. Disk Utility: I tried to repair the volume. I received an error saying it could not be done.
2. TechTool Pro: I did the drive test and it came back as having passed.
3. TechTool Pro: I tested the volume, found that the index was corrupted. Made sense.
4. DiskWarrior: I tried to recover it with DiskWarrior. During the recovering process the program became unresponsive and I got the beach ball of doom. After pressing AppleAltEsc I found the program was not responding and highlighted in red. I force-quit the application. I tried again and it proceeded to do the exact same thing. This time I noticed a message stating something along the lines of performance being slowed due to a drive malfunction. I was, once again, forced to force-quit the program.
5. DataRescue II: I attempted to use DataRescue II to see if I could at least view the files and transfer them off the drive and back them up to DVD so I could format the drive and reload all my data. Though it is visible to Disk Utility, DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro it is not, however, visible to DataRescue II.
6. TechTool Pro: I am now having TT P attempt to recover the data. I'm planning on letting it run into the night and hope in the morning it will be fine.
If anyone has any more recommendations on what I can do let me know. I can afford to buy another external to transfer all of my data onto that if I can access it long enough to pull it all off, but I need a program that can at least see the files to grab them.

Hi, Doug.
By not ejecting the drive before disconnecting it, the partition map was corrupted. Short of professional data recovery, you've covered everything and then some in my "Data Recovery" FAQ. If DR-II and TTP can't recover the data, then you're left with professional data recovery, per my FAQ.
I presume you don't have backups of the contents on the LaCie. After you recover from this incident, I suggest you implement a comprehensive Backup and Recovery solution addressing all of your drives. For advice on the backup and recovery solution I employ, see my "Backup and Recovery" FAQ.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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Data Recovery on Failed Drive

My son's iBook hard drive died with all his graduate school work on the drive. Apple is going to replace the drive under AppleCare, but we're trying to see how to get valuable files off before sending to Apple. DiskWarrior stalled. It was showing a SMART failure. One local tech shop said they couldn't recover anything. Right now the computer won't even show a startup screen. Are there any software options for recovering data off this kind of drive? Any recommendations on places to ship the iBook for data recovery. My daughter-in-law talked with TechRestore.com -- any experience with them?
Thanks for any help.
WK

With a hard drive mechanical failure such as you've had the only likely recourse is to send the drive to one of the various data recovery services (some advertise in the back of Mac World magazine) you might locate on Google. Recovery services will be fairly expensive - probably at least $500.00.
To avoid this in the future you should plan on purchasing an external Firewire drive and make regular backups. Much cheaper and less traumatic.
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HP Pavilion DV8el Entertainment recovery and partitioning drive C

Someone must have done this before, but I just cannot find anything...
I had to replace drive C for bad sectors, and now the Recovery Disks I had made three years ago crash with blue screen on partitioning the drive.
Nothing can be installed via that **bleep** disks (which are new because I have never used them before!)
I have a clean Ghost image of the whole C drive (before it got corrupted), partition by partition, so I really want to use that to recover my software and configurations. But I do not know how to do that without going throught the ununseable Recovery discs.
The problem seems to be that Ghost looks for the four original partitions and since it cannot find them it does not know where to install the C data... Can I manually partition C? I have a Linux Mint 13 system on a bootable USB drive, so I can mount and format C, I just need to know HOW (FAT32, NTFS, HIDDEN...) and what size/flags to give partitions...
I hope someone can help! Thanks a million, Gabriele
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I understand you need to restore your system software after replacing the HDD.
You mentioned you have a Ghost image. Are you referring to Norton Ghost? If so, what version of Ghost was used to make the image?
If you do have Ghost, then this thread may be useful for you.
http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/How-do-I-Restore-Ghost-Image-to-a-new-Hard-Driv...
Additionally, this document covers restoring a Ghost image on a new HDD using Ghost 15.
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/kb20091020110134EN_EndUserProfile_en_us;j...
I suspect the process is similar for other versions of Ghost. Once I know the exact version of Ghost, I may be able to find something more specific for your version of Ghost.
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