I had a lot of family pictures,job documents and music,the hard drive was formatted because it crashed so had windows xp installed again,(i had XP previously). I have not used it since,Is there a software i can use to recover all my data,or it cannot be recovered once it is formatted ?

i recently used the AVG anti-virus software to scan my computer, it found six threats in the window files and it automatically deleted them. but immediately the computer showed a warning saying that important files have been changed and the computer cannot run properly without them. i didn’t dare to close the computer incase it doesn’t open again, are there any good softwares i can download to recover those files??? or any other easy ways to put those deleted files back? i don’t have the windows XP pack.

I have a sony Vaio, which never came with an installation disk.
I just had to have my western digital hard drive replaced by warranty.
My vaio recovery disks will not work this time around due to a bigger hard drive, but they did originally in 2008.
Being told motherboard may be dead, but bios runs fine.
Where can I get a windows XP installation cd, as I have a valid key code on my laptop, but sony offers no free service

Im buying a set of windows vista recovery CD’s on Craigslist for , now, will this install the whole OS on my computer? im currently running a HP Comaq dc5100 1GB ram 80GBHDD and have Windows XP on it.

I don’t want to use those expensive third party recovery programs. I know some people create system recovery programs by using the basic windows xp programs, not the third party utility programs. I don’t want to use system restore. I only want to create a system recovery disc by using the basic windows xp program. So, can anyone please tell me how?

When I click Start>Control Panel>User Accounts>"My Account">Prevent a
forgotten password an error message pops up that says:
No Drive
Your computer does not have a removable disk drive. A removable medium is
required to use this feature.

I though in order to create a password reset disk all you need is a blank cd
and a cd burner? My computer has that (Compaq Presario V2000). Since this
isnt working, is there another way to create a Password Reset Disk?
Much appreciation if any Answers!

P.S, My computers specs if needed:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2 Compaq
Presario V2000
***If I need a floppy disk than is there another way to create the recovery disk?***

Because my computer is corrupted with these symptoms
-when I insert my windows xp installation cd,it says ‘invalid boot.ini file and then <windows root>\system32.hal.dll is corrupted.
-can not boot to normal windows back
-keeps restarting
-I went into the BIOS of my computer and enable the boot from CD option but still can not read my windows xp installation disc

I had to use HP recovery to rid my computer of a small virus. (It’s a long process but it works.) When it came back on things were wrong.

First: My speakers do not work. I’ve checked device manager and the connection but nothing.

Second, and this is the big one: I have to download Windows XP Service Pack 2, at least I think I do, to re-install my iTunes. But it won’t let me because I don’t seem to have enough space. When I try to click on Disk Cleanup, it won’t open. Sometimes it pops up when I try to download Windows XP SP2, but it won’t load. Someone help!
But you guys, The speakers didn’t come with the comp. Though they did work fine before I activated HP Recovery.

I think I have 2 Windows XP Home OS in my computer. I need to delete the bad one.

My Windows XP Home would not run after I had loaded a PC game, and I used my CD Recovery disk. During the reload process, the program would not accept the license key saying it is not valid. However, I managed to complete the recovery process. Now, at start-up a DOS display is asking to select one of the same Windows XP Home editions listed. I selected the first one (done by the recovery). My Windows XP works but now I always get a message saying Windows is not genuine and that I must activate it (and I have x-number of days to do it). I think, somehow, the earlier defective Windows was not deleted (license key still active) when the C-drive was reformatted and now I have 2 instances of Windows XP Home in my computer. How do I delete the bad OS, and so I can use my license key again? Or, do I have a different problem?

I have a HP Pavilion 514a desktop PC (Australian version) and ages ago when I got it, I attempted to create a set of backup CD’s. This failed at disk 8 / 9 and because HP only allow for you to have one shot at this, I could no longer attempt to create the rest. I want this image back on this PC, as I have been using just normal Windows XP for a while, but prefer HP’s image (the software and stuff). I have deleted the recovery Partition, so there’s no hope in recovering that at all, and I have attempted to use the CD’s, but as soon as it finishes disk #8, it asks me for disk #9, which I evidently don’t have. This is disheartening as I only need that last CD to complete the recovery process. So my question is, can anyone point me to a download link for the recovery CD set for this PC, or could anyone tell me a solution to bypass this final CD check (it would be incomplete, but it’d be better than nothing). Please, I was really looking forward to having this old image on (I THINK it was Windows XP Home, Service Pack 1a, but I’m not sure). Thanks for any help in advance, and sorry for such a long question. Have a nice day guys. =)

I just got a used Compaq Evo laptop running windows XP pro. It did NOT come with an OS cd or recovery cd. I do have XP Home recovery CDs for my Sony Vaio, but they dont seem to register with the Compaq.

I attempted to update from the vanilla xp pro to Service Pack 2, but towards the end of the install my computer crashed. Now when I try to boot it says "Non-system disk or disk error."

I do not have a cd in the drive or any usb devices attached. I do not have a floppy drive. I think the SP2 install messed up the Master Boot Record. I think I need to run Recovery Console but I do not have the Boot CD to get into it.

Does anybody have any advice or know where I can acquire an iso image of the windows xp pro boot cd or a bootable recovery console?

Thank you for your response.

I use LimeWire yes I know I shouldn’t, but I was going from folder to folder deleting some stuff and I accidentally deleted all of my limewire music files and some videos, restarted my computer, saw someone elses question on here went to a url and they have a program where u can recover accidentally deleted files, but it only found like 3 of my 90 deleted files, they were deleted like under an hour ago, HOW DO I GET THEM BACk, I have to have my music, I have a Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Compaq computer, so please someone give me a url so I can download something to get them back or suggest to get them back, thanks very much

Hi,

Mistakenly I’ve deleted (Shift+Deleted) a jpeg images containing folder from my desktop (Windows XP). Can anybody guide me how to recover it. This is today’s incident & I haven’t restarted or logged off my laptop yet.

Prompt reply will highly be appreciated.

Regards,
Jafar Khan
Camp: Kuala-Lumpur
Malaysia

also need help in finding out how to get windows installer back on windows xp. I can not install any programs now. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I have Reinstalled windows xp on my laptop using a recovery disk how do I install Service Pack 3, My laptop has sp2 on it

Hi, my system did not come with an install CD for windows (XP home) as it has a recovery partition instead. Anyone know how I can install the recovery console as a boot option without the windows CD?

I updated to Microsoft Service Pack 2, when I came home the next day my computer had restarted and said that there was no hard disk.

I tried the windows xp recovery and it couldn’t find any drives and then I tried to reinstall XP and it said there were no hard drives found!

so i have no computer now

What may have happened and is there a way to get it back?!
I have never ‘opened’ my computer and I live alone so Im sure no one else could have done this.

I’m trying to fix my little brothers computer, so im trying to use my windows xp recovery cd but some reason it doesn’t work. I restarted the computer with the cd inside but nothing shows up.
what should i do?

My computer is corrupt and I don’t have a windows xp CD or recovery disk to start over. I do have a Windows XP and Service Pack I on a DVD-R but I don’t know how to extract windows xp from it, all it does is back it up which made my hard drive full. I have a Maxtor hard drive and it came with a CD Maxblast 4 and I don’t know if that would help me reinstall my computer. Any suggestions?

I have a laptop that I’ve been trying to restore to its factory settings which is a Compaq Armada (I don’t know which one exactly) and it runs in Windows XP. I don’t have a recovery disk (except for the Service Pack) and I’m not sure if I’m capable of burning recovery disks. Does anyone know how to make recovery disks and/or restore it to its factory settings (step-by-step guide)?

I really want to just reset the whole laptop as if it was just bought brand new. And for some odd reason, the firewall settings cannot be found.

When installing Windows XP (full version) onto my computer, I expected an option to create a Recovery CD to appear on my screen, but I never saw anything, or maybe I missed it. Either way, if in the future I need to do a complete reboot, how would I do it. Where can I get a Recovery CD from?
Thanks in advance to everyone who replies to this message.

i know to do a system recovery on my windows me desktop i just press F10.. but i don’t know what to do for Windows XP.. lol… please help!
i don’t want to restore it from an earlier point, i want to do a system recovery… take it back to factory condition or whatever u call it, lol
well, tapping F8 didn’t work..

My sister deleted one of the two administrator accounts that we have on windows xp professional. Since the files are encrypted is it possible for me to take ownership of these files or can i recover them any other way?

Dear Friend

I have purchased a Laptop; Brand: SAMSUNG, MODEL: R40
While purchasing, seller provided me 2 CDs. One for driver software and another is captioned as “Samsung Recovery Solution” “Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2”.

I have formatted C drive due to malfunctioning. Now my query, will that Recovery Disc install WinXP as usual?

Appreciate, if you would come back at your earliest.

Regards
Pervez

where can i download hp a420n windows xp home recovery cds for free?
Recovery partition is still there, however pressing F10 (as it asks me to) does absolutely nothing.

The C drive has since been formatted, but the recovery partition has never been touched.