Main hard drive has lost recently. (2 mo out of warranty)

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  I have a toshiba Satellite Pro A200 on Vista. Vista came preloaded and I not all disks for it. I got it from the new (Sept 2007). The hard disk is divided into units. Recently my C drive has filled competely and I now no space left (went 55gigs) I store some data in this drive. All my multimedia elements (music, photos, and other files) is in my E drive. I have to run C Cleaner whenever I start in order to have enough space for the operation of the computer. I also remove all but the last restore point in order to function.

  I am at my wits end and think I must have a virus or something. Is there a way to restore the computer to the 'new '? I have all my files backed up on an external hard drive, so I don't mind from scratch. Not keeping in mind I have no install discs as Vista came preloaded.

  Can anyone help? Please, I beg you!

  Hello

  If you don't have a recovery disk, you can order from Toshiba for the money. Otherwise, you can get copy of Windows and installed with the drivers of Toshiba (http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp)
  Then, you mentioned that hard drive has lost half it's memory, tell you if it was ok before but not available? Please check disk management, utility of the Panel. What is shown here?

• 160 GB hard drive has LOST 30 GB in an hour by himself. HELP PLEEEEASE

  
  
  

• Formatting the main HARD drive and do a fresh install of the OS

  Hi guys,.

  I have a Mid 2012 MacBook Pro running Yosemite (10.10.2). I did not care on the data management since the day that I bought and now it's all over the place and a lot of unwanted files. I have backups time machine the main hard drive and I also backed up all important data on a separate hard drive.

  My question is, is it possible that I can erase my entire hard drive and reinstall Yosemite (10.10.2)? The last time I tried to do this, my MacBook connected to the server and installed the latest OS (I guess it was time Cougar 10.8.4).) I don't want to update the OS because my Audio Interface has no drivers for what after 10.10.2.

  I don't like on the data loss that I have multiple backups of all the files of important work, as well as backups time machine of the disk set. Thus, formatting everything is completely fine with me.

  Thank you!

  neilkvyas wrote:

  My question is, is it possible that I can erase my entire hard drive and reinstall Yosemite (10.10.2)? The last time I tried to do this, my MacBook connected to the server and installed the latest OS (I guess it was time Cougar 10.8.4).) I don't want to update the OS because my Audio Interface has no drivers for what after 10.10.2.

  The only ways I know to reinstall 10.10.2 are:

  • You have the initial download of 10.10 after Yosemite went out and created a USB this version thumb drive Installer. If so, you can start Setup from USB, delete your Macintosh HD, install 10.10 and after 10.10 is installed, you can download and run the 10.10.2 Combo Update to bring it up to 10.10.2.
  • You have the 10.10.2 download after this version has been published and have created a USB this version thumb drive Installer. If so, you can start Setup from USB, wipe your hard drive Macintosh and install 10.10.2.

  If you can't do or any of the foregoing, all what you can do then is start Recovery HD and install the latest version of Yosemite, which is 10.10.5. Even if the HD recovery may appear 10.10.2,"limited you will always get the most recent version of Yosemite. Without either of the above, there is no way that I know how to install an earlier version of Yosemite. Maybe you could ask a local Apple Store to see if they have a solution for 10.10.2.

• Replacement of main hard drive DV9565EA

  Hello. I have a DV9565ea under Vista. The main hard drive broke down and I need to replace. The c: partition is corrupted and lost, the X: recovery partition works very well.

  Before spending money on it, I did some research and the recovery on the hard drive partition seems to cause a lot of problems. He needs to be there on the replacement drive, but how he do there? The recovery media do not put the partition recovery on the drive, and without it I will not be able to use the CD recovery anyway.

  Can someone please suggest a way to do this? With the right software and a couple of carts to connect two hard drives on another laptop, I can build and copy this partition on a new drive before using the recovery media?

  Or do I have to send the laptop to HP service center? IF Yes, how much it will cost to bring the machine to its original state of work?

  Or just buy a replacement of HP with everything on all hard drive first?

  Thank you very much.

  isab099 wrote:

  Hello. I have a DV9565ea under Vista. The main hard drive broke down and I need to replace. The c: partition is corrupted and lost, the X: recovery partition works very well.

  Before spending money on it, I did some research and the recovery on the hard drive partition seems to cause a lot of problems. He needs to be there on the replacement drive, but how he do there? The recovery media do not put the partition recovery on the drive, and without it I will not be able to use the CD recovery anyway.

  Can someone please suggest a way to do this? With the right software and a couple of carts to connect two hard drives on another laptop, I can build and copy this partition on a new drive before using the recovery media?

  Or do I have to send the laptop to HP service center? IF Yes, how much it will cost to bring the machine to its original state of work?

  Or just buy a replacement of HP with everything on all hard drive first?

  Thank you very much.

  Is the BIOS drive test or HP Support assistant tell you that the disc is no longer usable? Is the most important question that you must answer.

  Why you do not have downloaded and used the utilities in a Vista repair disc?

  All he needs to do is identical in terms of 32 or 64-bit. Run chkdsk /f and sfc/scannow might address the issues you have with your current drive (unless HP Support Assistant has informed you that it should be replaced).

  If you have another PC or laptop and can connect the laptop go to him as a slave with either a USB / eSATA external drive housing or by connecting it to the inside, then you can copy the partition recovery and clone on the new portable hard drive. Use a cloning utility to do this.

  Yes, you can use the recovery without the recovery partition disks.

  Your laptop series supports all SATA hard, 9.5 mm (2.5 in.) drives and SSDS. Buy a local or online retailer. It is recommended to keep the capacity of the new drive less 1.5 to (preferably from 500 to 750 GB). The largest drives come with their own installation problems.

  
  

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• The D drive, which is a partition on my main hard drive disappeared.

  My D drive, which is a partition on my main hard drive disappeared. He has a lot of data. I use Windows xp. How to restore the partition as drive D and recover files that have been on it?

  Hello

  I suggest you to go to disk management and check if the disc is in the list:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/309000

  You can try to restore the computer to an earlier point and check if it helps:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/306084

  It will be useful.

• Check the main hard drive freezes on Quick Check

  I have a Hp G500 series portable Ubuntu 12.04 running. This morning the case slipped and fell. I check and noticed that the housing has been pressed on the same side as the little light that tells you its reading of the HARD drive, and me being paranoid with my computer, I immediately checked on this subject. The operating system starts fine and the memory test in the checked bios but when I went to check the main hard drive in the bios, it conducted an audit of the fast and then frozen at 2%. I hit ESC, but everything is frozen. < br > < br > I myself have already resigned to the fact that I may need to replace the HARD drive again, but if it can be avoided, I prefer not to spend the money.

  Hello

  Yes, that means you need to replace the hard drive.

• Free space on my hard drive has all of a sudden diminishedfrom 50% to 10%, what happened?

  Free space on my hard drive has suddenly (within a week) has declined from 50% to 10%. I used disk cleanup and defragmentation - but it did not help.

  Hi williamvmcb,

  Welcome to the Microsoft community. According to the problem description of free space on the hard drive is reduced by itself.

  ·         Did you do changes on the computer before the show?

  Follow these methods.

  Method 1: Run the disk check to check for possible errors.

  Check your hard drive for errors

  Note: If bad sectors are found in the hard drive, then it could try to repair. If you have any data on that, it can get lost.

  Method 2: Performs a search using the Microsoft safety scanner.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  Note: The data files that are infected must be cleaned only by removing the file completely, which means that there is a risk of data loss.

  I hope this helps. Let us know if you need more assistance.

  Thank you.

• my hard drive has just stopped working

  I went to burn pictures on a dvd and got a message saying that I don't have a car to get there. I have a hard drive and used recently. When I go to itunes and try to play a cd, the same thing. When I ran a diagnosis in itunes check, he didn't even see that there is the disk drive. It seems that the computer does not know that the drive is gone. It is a Toshiba laptop with Windows Vista.

  See this response by SpiritX. It is also on the list below in the related discussions.

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• Internal hard drive has all of a sudden the write Protection

  Hello

  My internal hard drive has suddenly developed the write protection and has resisted each of my attempts to change this. I found issues related to external hard drives, but have not met a subject that bears on the disk system hard to develop this problem.

  The last State of operational activities that are known:

  My main hard drive read/write functions were fine the day before. The only things I did today were the usual activities like browsing the web, watching videos, etc.. The only thing I did of note has been download a Steam game, which required the U-Play from Ubisoft. I installed the game and U-Play, so the game went very well. Then I played another game of steam which does not need U-Play, then attempts to transfer files on a USB key.

  Steps taken to solve the problem:

  When you try to transfer files, warning "the disk is write protected" appears. I thought that it odd, as I had never met this caveat on this PC before. I discovered that all the files in the C drive have been suddenly write protected. My attempts to solve this problem include:

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  • What allows all permissions for the users and system Admins for drive C properties > Security (I found it odd that users have all permissions, when I clearly remember all the usual permissions enabled previously)
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  • Opened as administrator command prompt and entering 'diskpart', 'list volume', "select volume #', disk clear readonly attribute, readonly attributes volume clear." The clear drive has reported a failure, while the clear volume reported a success.

  None of these steps have managed to solve the question of write protection. Might this problem be possibly related to the downloaded game, or the program U-Play from Ubisoft? Is there something that I missed? What can I do else? I have documents and files that have not been backed up, but I don't want to lose.

  Thank you for reading, any help would be appreciated!

  I'm really sorry for your time. The culprit is revealed to be the key USB is write-protected, not the drive internal (phew!). I guess I panicked a bit and don't think to test with another stick of memory, which transferred files very well. Problem solved, I'll just reformat the wobbly flash drive.

  Thank you for sticking with it, even when I probably don't have too much sense, you have been very helpful and patient.

• Hard drive has been corrupted and replaced it with the new hard drive but couldn't get the windows genuine back 8

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  Hello Vishal,

  Welcome to the Microsoft community. I appreciate your efforts to resolve the issue. I will certainly help you with the problem you are experiencing.

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  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_8-windows_install/how-to-get-Windows-8-product-key-in-preloaded/ea0e53ae-3506-4ba2-a092-f266ece7072f?auth=1

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• MacBook pro work leave because of pulled and broken wire.  I took out the hard drive.  the hard drive has all my files that I wouldn't need to clear all of the other personal files?

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