I dont know what i did but i tried to put a new operating system. Before it was Window XP Home edition - Service Pack 2.

Then, i tried to install another Window ( Window XP Professional - SP2) and it worked well but my laptop screen (LCD 1280×800 widescreen) is now 1024×768 non-widescreen. it might be due to lack of monitor driver (Radeon-ATI)

So that another way, i need a sony vaio system recovery disc (Sony Vaio is no longer supply it with thier product)

Please help me and tell me what i should do to get my laptop screen back to widescreen and all drivers that need for my Laptop!

My laptop also has wirless LAN but it wont detect it.

Thanks and all the help will help.

I also dont want to spend any money!!

I would like a program that is free and not really complicated, because my cousin deleted four years of documents from my computer by accident and I NEED to get them back, as I’m writing a book and it was half finished and now its gone and I would like it back. So the main thing is it needs to be free, because I do not have the money to pay for anything.

I have this old floppy disk that i found when i was cleaning, and i remembered that i had stored some old short stories i had written ages ago. maybe about 9 years or so. I was able to retrieve MOST of the files off of it except for 4 of them. Then i just kept trying repeatedly to open them and one of them (after several attempts) magically opened up, but that’s not to say for the last three. I ran norton diskdoctor on the drive and it found no errors.

I tried searching and i found this website where the guy said to "copy all sectors from the disk" or something… but in laymans terms, i had no idea what he was talking about.

i realize that i can send it to a data recovery service if I’d be willing to spend the money for these files, but I’m still trying to find out if there are any other ways to get these THREE out of maybe 30 files to open!

please help me if you can!
im desperate.
these files aren’t so much important.. but priceless in a sense that its my childhood.

Ok, I wanted to install a game on my pc, but I didn’t have enough free space on the c drive to do it, and stupid old me went and deleted a bunch of stuff, and came to find out the next day that I needed some of the stuff I deleted, for the pc to actually work. I found out what the problem is, but I can’t afford over 0+/- to fix it. The problem is I need data recovery to fix it. The other thing is, how can I fix it myself, so I don’t have to waste money I don’t have? Thanks for all your help, as I do appreciate it greatly.
BTW, my system originally ran off of windows 95, now it has windows 98 se. I held down the F8 like you said, all it did was make some sort of beeping noise. The moniter reads:

Invalid system disk
Replace the disk, and then press any key

BUT there isn’t even any disk in either the a drive or c drive!

So, my hard drive on my laptop died. It’s doing the clicking/not spinning up thing. I tried the whole freezer thing, yada yada…basically, I know it’s a mechanical thing and the only hope I have is to go to a data recovery service and get them to take out the data plates and put them in a new drive and recover the data. That said…I know that this process is expensive, but my data is important, and I have money. I am wondering just how expensive it is. I looked into it, saw some prices by the hour, and some "as low as !" prices, but does anyone have any "real" quotes? And if my hard drive is 80 GB and I only need maybe 5 GB recovered, will it cost less than getting the whole 80 recovered?
Just a note, I’m looking for dollar amounts, thanks everyone!

I am on Vista, so it has to be vista capable.

What is the best of the best up to date Security Suit program (anit virus, anti spyware, anti malware and so on) that money can buy? Also runner ups and such.

Thanks

I had a system crash and one of my hard drives disappeared yet it shows up in dos. I tried a few data recovery softwares but they either cost money or do not work.

I tried PC Inspector File Recovery but when I saved my data to my desktop (other hard drive) it did not work.. and all the files apparently had the same size so something is wrong.

My Mom just bought a new computer & gave me her old one. This one is probably over 5 years old. She likes to download lots of music, videos, games & other stuff so it’s kind of slow. I tried uninstalling programs, but it’s still slow, it freezes & does this critical error warning sound for no reason, so I was thinking of doing a full system restore. She had a virus a couple of years ago & had her computer serviced by Nerds on Call. The computer is an emachines Windows XP, model #T3985, 340 Intel Celeron D Processor 340, 80GB hard drive, DVD+/-RW 16x Double Layer Drive, 512MB, 2.93GHz

She didn’t have any of the paperwork or a system recovery disk, so I was wondering will it work if hit F11 & do a full system restore or since it has been serviced by a company other than emachines will it do more damage than good? I don’t really want to have to spend more money on the computer since it is working, so I’m trying to figure out what is the simplest way to get it back to the way it was when she bought it or is that even possible? Since it has been serviced before does the full system restore option even work anymore?

I need to know how I can best secure a PC running XP without spending any money. I will not spend money on a virus scanner, if necessary I will re-format every month to clean the PC up, but I would like to know if there is anything for free that is considered reliable, as far as a firewall and virus protection and removal goes?