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by sulzar 1 view

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Hi pals,
Pls read carefully , the tragedy I faced.
I start my computer for some work I started word to see some document then I clicked on Adobe Acrobat reader all of sudden my PC stuck I guessed processing stall encountered I wait for a whilethen I restart my PC koz it hanged ,but it was unable to load boot record
then I boot from CD to reach to C: but it showed "Invalid Drive specification" the story end sadly that all of my parttion has benn lost . All my data is still there i thinkit is but all partitions are vanished so I want to recover data from that hard disk it is ver very important to me my three years struglle in the field of computer scinece is encapsulated there can any body help me to recover data i dont want to run FDISK and one thing there is no mirror or image of that data exist so it makes the problem very much complexed. I m sure some type of bad worm or virus attacked me and gimme a lot of pain and psychological hurt may u ppl realize my conditon i m in bad situation pls help me

(pls contact me personaly on my email if u have any solution but cant able to understand exactly what I want to say)

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by dhrdmn

Although you were unable to boot from a CD you might try a bootable OS diskette. This diskette will define your drive for the CD-ROM if you select "Install with CD support". It willl give you a drive letter to which you switch. Insert the cd with your operating system and type setup at the prompt. If after re-installing the operating system you find your hard disk has been wiped clean the you must seek data recovery help.

I am afraid this will cost you a bit of money but your best bet is to remove your hard drive and take it to a data recovery firm. Be careful to package it in a static free bag. You didn't mention how old your computer is or whether you have anti-virus software installed. Sometimes a crash like this can be caused by intermittent performance of your CPU fan.

by tlpayne

Not all hope is lost. The first thing to check is the hardware. Reseat all of the data cables. Reseat all of your isa and pci cards as well as your video if it is AGP. Next start your PC and go into the bios. Goto the hard drive auto detect and see if your PC actualy is seeing the hard drive. If it reports it in the bios then exit. Maybe your master boot record has been destroyed by a virus. First of all get a bootable floppy using the same operating sytem version on your pc with the version of fdisk that came with it. Boot from the floopy. At the command prompt type "fdisk c: /mbr" This we re-initialize your master boot record. Now
reboot your PC. Your PC should start properly now. Now get a good virus scanner and scan your entire harddrive. Then back up all of your data and this won't happen again. It's not a matter of if your hard drive will die but, when.
Cheers

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