recovery Discs

[Tdot blue jays]

My computer crashed so I'm deciding whether to use the recovery disc. Will all my limewire files be removed if I use it?

[AaronWalkhouse]

Most recovery disks do that. What kind of crash is it?
Maybe all you need is a good sniper instead of a nuke. ;]

[Larrybriggs1]

The answer is yes if the information is on your C drive (Primary partition), when you do a recovery it reformats and may even partition the drive, then it will recover (put in original condition as the day you bouht it). The recovery process will wipe out ALL files and All programs that you put on the machine after you bought it.

One possible way to save data files is to remove the hard drive and install it in another machine and then copy the files you want to save to the that machine. Then take your hard drive and reinstall in your machine an do the recovery. Any programs that been installed after you bought the machine will have to be REINSTALLED not copied.

Before you do this though see is you can go back and do a restore from an earlier date. May take a couple or more trys.

larry

[Larrybriggs1]

I forgot to tell you ALL FILES ARE DATA FILES, and that means video, souund, text or anything else.

good luck and let us what happens

larry

[Bajaza]

All your data will be deleted if you use the recovery disc.
Its better you can try first data recovery software to save all your data in different drive. It recover all your formated hard drive data, accidentaly deleted file and directories and even recover your data after sabotage.
Can try this utility Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS.
Hope this will be usefull for you.