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Windows Vista vista crashed and burned

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by dakar, 2008/07/01.

  1. 2008/07/01
    dakar

    dakar Inactive Thread Starter

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    my friend's sony laptop running vista crashed after he installed a program... does any1 know a way i can get info out of the hard drive before i reinstall
    the OS...if its even possible without software or sending the hard drive out...any help will be greatly appreciated...thank you for your help guys...
     
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    PeteC

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    A Repair of Vista should not lose any data,.

    The other alternative is to connect the drive to a desktop via a 2 1/2" > 3 1/2" adaptor and copy the data off.
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    It would help if you described "crashed. "
     
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    dakar

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    windows failed to start.a recent hardware or software change might be the cause.

    file: \windows\system32\config\system

    status: 0xc000014c

    info: windows failed to load because the system registryfile is missing, or corrupt.

    if i run a repair do you think it will fix the problem...and if repair doesn't fix the problem will the data be lost...

    PETEC...i never tried to do what your saying...i should say i dont know how to do what your saying...i wouldn't mind learning it...i do appreciate all your help...thanks guys...
     
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    PeteC

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    As I do not use Vista I pointed you to a number of references on Google re. repairing. I cannot be more specific as my experience of repairing Vista is zilch :)
     
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    Arie

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    dakar

    dakar Inactive Thread Starter

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    ARIE...

    the startup repair didn't work...i think i might just look into buying a data recovery cd...any ideas on which software is good and not to expensive...by the way,thanks for all your help guys...
     
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    PeteC

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    which you will have to do to run a data recovery programme on it.
     
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