Trying to recover my laptop
I have a Compaq Presario CQ60 laptop. and i tried doing a recovery to it this morning and it is coming up with an error saying bootmgr missing. I have no disks for this my computer was running slow so i wanted to clean it out and renew it to new.
It will be harder to fix without the disk but not impossible.
If you could borrow a windows install disk you boot to it, choose repair my computer, go to command prompt, and type in:
bootrec /fixboot
if you can't borrow one I would try a program called testdisk.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Create_a_TestDisk_FreeDos_LiveCD
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my iPhone was stolen last night and I'm trying to recover all my photos from that phone and get them on my mac laptop. The iCloud photo stream only imported 1,000 photos from my stolen phone. How can I retrieve all of my other photos?
You have to reset the device to Factory Settings in order to restore it from an iCloud backup. You probably want to back it up as is before you do this.
To do the reset after you have backed up the current device, go to Settings>Reset>Reset all Content & Settings. This will erase the device. If you are signed onto iCloud with Find My iPhone turned on, go to Settings>iCloud and scroll to the bottom to sign out of iCloud before you do the reset.
Once you have reset your device, you will set it up like a new phone. When it asks if you want to restore it from an iCloud backup, select the backup you want to restore it from.
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HT1222 My laptop was stolen and i am trying to recover my old itunes account
My laptop was stolen and i am trying to recover my old itunes account?
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HP Envy 14 - black screen after start up screen when trying to recover the system
I have a HP Envy 14 and months ago I got the message "Hard Drive failure imminent".
Well, the HD finally stopped working and I got a Kingston ssd hyperx 240gb to replace it.
I have the HP recovery disks, so I tried to recover my system with them. The 6 disks are used to creat an image and then I have to click "continue" in order to re-initiate the sytem. Then, I get the usual HP start up screen, so I hit enter. Then, I get a black screen (screen is on) and nothing happens. I've done this 4 times and always get the same black screen at the end.
Any suggestions to solve this problem?
Many thanks.Hi
At this point you may consider contacting Kingston to ask them why your SSD is not running after POST when clearly Windows is installed .
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PLEASE HELP ME ... I WANT TO RECOVER MY LAPTOP
HI ALL ... I HAVE TOSHIBA LAPTOP SATELLITE A300-1MO ... I WANT TO RECOVERY IT ... PLEASE HELP ME AND GIVE ME THE WAY HOW TO RECOVERY IT .. THANKS ALL
what is the problem that you are having? why do you need to recover your laptop? to recovery your system back to factory here are the options
OPTION 1
turn your laptop off. then hold down zero key and push power button. do NOT let go of zero until it beeps. then it should ask you if you want to restore to factory out of box or format hdd. choose out of box. then it will give you a warning and just click yes. if this doesnt work you will need to order a set of recovery dvds unless you already have them.
OPTION 2
if you already have the recovery media you can press F12 at the toshiba screen during start up. this will send you to bios set up. go over to the boot tab and then move cd/dvd drive to the top of the list, save and exit. insert the recovery media into the dvd drive and then restart the laptop.
both of these options will erase anything and EVERYTHING from you hdd. there will be no way of getting it back once it is gone.
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Hello,
I am trying to connect my laptop to my TV. The computer flashes blue after I plug the cable in but the TV says there is no signal.
I have a Mac Book Pro 2009 and a Samsung 32" Class (31.5" Diag.) 450 Series 720p LCD HDTV (2010 model).
I am using a mini display port to VGA adapter. I have sucessfully hooked up boh devices but it stopped working after a handful of times. I was wondering if there is anything I can do to fix the problem or is my cable broken?Some things you can try.
Startup Issues - Resolve
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I have an airport extreme. i am trying to connect a laptop with windows 7 to a wireless printer, with no luck. any ideas?
The problem is not the router.. the issue is the vpn has put your computer in a different IP range with a different gateway. When you turn off the vpn the computer returns to local lan and can print.
Some vpn software allows you to set gateway to use local net instead of remote gateway or access to other webistes or local lan.
Read up the issue.
http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2010/01/using-the-local-default-gateway-with-a-wind ows-vpn-connection/
Cisco vpn client..
https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/239113
I did not search much.. just grabbed the first article I could find that explains the issue.
The whole point of the vpn is whilst it is connected your computer is NOT part of the Local Lan .. it is part of the Remote LAN via the vpn tunnel.
It is also a security risk using split tunnelling so often it will not be allowed.
Plug the printer directly into the computer via usb or whatever.. Local connection will work.. not local lan. -
I am having trouble with my Ipad. I am a windows user. It says that it hasn't been backed up in 2 weeks. I tried connecting to my laptop but nothing happens.
If you haven't already done so, try it by holding the on/off and home buttons at the same time until you see the Apple logo, then releasing.
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i was at the beach and was washing my shoes off then it fell in the water it was working alright but then it died and will not turn on and keeps showing the same thing i have tried to recover the iphone a couple of times but its saying the same thing.. do i have to go get it repaired if so how much... please help!!!
If you are talking about the warranty from Apple that would have expired when your iPhone hit the water. So it doesn't matter. Just take it to Apple and purchase an out of warranty replacement for it.
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I have a 60 GB iPod that has over 2000 songs on it. Somehow I lost a number of songs on my iMac. I am trying to recover the songs from my iPod and reload them in my itunes library. The Library now has 1600 songs so I'm down by at least 400 songs. Does anyone know how to move the song from an iPod to an IMac running OS X 10.9.2 Maverick?
The songs on the iPod will not copy over to the new/different iTunes library. The sync process is only one way and that is from iTunes to the iPod. The only exception to this are iTunes purchases which can be transferred from the iPod to iTunes by choosing File -> Transfer Purchases with the iPod plugged in and appearing in iTunes.
See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock -
I have been trying to recover or reset my password, but the reset email never comes, so I can't change my password. I tried to open a new itunes account to assign my iphone 4 to, but it always defaults to the old itunes account?
Me too! I tried to reset many times the password of my daughter’s id but she never received an email with instructions. :-(
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Trying to recover my data My Micro SD Card became corrupted after JB Update
Can someone please help me?
Here is the issue:
Background:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone that I transferred my micro SD Card into from my previous smart phone. About a month ago I realized that some of the pictures were corrupted and called verizon they told me to put the sd card in the old phone and see if I could delete the corrupted pictures. Did that, the card went back to working as I was used to it working. I then had a friend download some music to it. That also worked fine until verizon sent out the Jelly bean update. When the phone turned off and then back on after the update, the phone gave me an error message that said the SD card is damaged. I immediately took it out of the phone and put it aside.
Current issue:
So today I purchased a card reader, New micro SD card and came home and downloaded Recuva. So far everything is great. All the files, I card about came up in the directory with little green circles next to them. (All the music and my 5 sms back-ups) I then hit the recover icon at the bottom of the screen and the data gathered. Then it never recovered over to my c drive or to the flash drive (memory stick) that that I put into one of the other ports. I keep getting 1 or 2 messages. The one I am seeing the most is " The parameter is incorrect" the other one I am seeing is that the memory is not ready for the data. I am now at the point where all I care about are the 5 sms back ups. The music can be reloaded later. files are called sms-"date backed up and a string of numbers".xml
So question is do I need to buy recuva to actually recover my data or am I doing something else wrong? Please help.
Thanks so much in advance.
So an update as of 8:45 pm
So here's what else I have tried so far tonight. I went back into the CMD mode of my computer and ran chkdsk d:/f this now produced a name of a file that is corrupted. Also says that it removed the file. I then ran chkdsk again with the exact same result. The file was not removed.
Running recuva I am getting more files recovered now and more green circles. But, when actually trying to recover the files I am still getting the message "The parameter is incorrect"
Most of the other software i have found is either for recovering pictures or deleted files not corrupted ones. This is the only software that appears to do what i need it to do for my issue. I think I may be in over my head and it may be time to pay a professional to move on from here. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for taking your time to reply to me.
Message was edited by: Dayna PachmanThere are some free alternatives to recovering files from a SDcard. photorec.exe is one. Try a Google search to find others.
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Photoshop locks up trying to recover a file
Earlier, I was working on a photo with many layers and tried to switch to mask mode when it locked up. After an hour of waiting for it finish, I finally terminated PS via Windows task manager. Now, every time I go to start PS, it tries to recover the image and keeps locking up. I tried restarting my computer but it's still doing it. It doesn't lock up the whole computer but I need to finish the work. I have accepted the fact that I will have to start all over with the image, now I just want to get back at it. I am using PS CC on Windows 7.
Thanks for any help.I think that documents file may be a goner. If you want to recover that file first try resetting your preferences to see if Photoshop starts. If Photoshop still hangs you need to move the recovery PSB files out of your Photoshop recovery folder. Photoshop should start then you can try to open the PSB files you moved out of Photoshop recovery folders one at a time to see in any can be recovered, Each user ID the uses Photoshop should had a autorecover folder for the Photoshop versions the user ID has used.
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I have a macbook 15 inch (retina display) and philips LCD which I'm trying to connect my laptop to.
I currently have a HDMI cable plugged in, but am constantly getting an error message "no video input" on the LCD tv.
I have checked the philips LCD to be in the HDMI mode and googled many threads but have
not found a solution to solve my problem. Would appreciate any help given!Hello, anabelleho.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here is a troubleshooting article that I would recommend going through when experiencing this issue.
Apple computers: Troubleshooting issues with video on internal or external displays
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1573
Cheers,
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I am getting a 3014 error message when trying to recover my iTouch after upgrading to 10.7.0.21. Everything worked fine until the upgrade.My PC is current with upgrades, I have unplugged all USB connections and I have disabled my firewall security.
Did you try this:
Errors 3000-3999 (3004, 3013, 3014, 3018, 3164, 3194, and so on): Error codes in the 3000 range generally mean that iTunes cannot contact the update server (gs.apple.com) on ports 80 or 443.
Update to the latest version of iTunes.
Verify the computer's date and time are accurate.
Check that your security or firewall software is not interfering with ports 80 or 443, or with the server gs.apple.com.
Follow Troubleshooting security software. Often, uninstalling third-party security software will resolve these errors.
An entry in your hosts file may be redirecting requests to gs.apple.com (see "Unable to contact the iOS software update server gs.apple.com" above).
Internet proxy settings can cause this issue. If you are using a proxy, try without using one.
Test restoring while connected to a known-good network.
Also see:
HT4061 error message 3014.: Apple Support Communities
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