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My laptop wont start up!!
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Has he done a factory restore (and wiped your data)?
He has loaded anothercopy of Vista and told me to download a repair programme to access my data. He said the computer keeps giving error messages and this copy may not last long. I only need time to get my data off. Then he thinks I may need a new hard drive ( although I have one in my sons old computer that he can use) I am now trying to find the best recovery software.0 -
He should have rescued your data first (using a caddy or boot disc - which you could have done too without taking to a shop), trying the restore partition and installing another copy of vista has probably overwritten some or all of it. You could have probably got everything back if you'd waited.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.HTML
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm
http://dmitrybrant.com/diskdigger!!
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