The computer is giving me the blue screen of death (error 0×0000007f). It loops and I can’t fix it. I’ve tried almost everything. Im to the point where I’ve already reinstalled windows on another hard drive and Im ready to pull data off my old hard drive. The old hard drive contains all of my Outlook Express files but I don’t know how to recover them and make them functional in my new Windows Environment. The link below gives a step by step tutorial but I don’t know how to copy registry files from a hard drive that isn’t the one with the running OS. http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/clone.htm

Is this possible?
I’ve scanned the HD for bad sectors and also the memory on the computer. Copying the .mbx files is a good tip. What about the address book? It seems as though you have to make registry changes, so how do I get them?

Lately my xbox 360 has been acting up and I’m kinda worried that the hard drive might break soon and i don’t want to lose all of my game saves, downloaded content and all that good stuff. I know that I can get another hard drive and transfer the data, but is it possible to keep the data on both hard drives? that way I can just use the second hard drive as a backup?

I formatted my hard drive yesterday and reinstalled NIS 2010 and I utilize the identity safe (which saves my logins and passswords). I backed up the information before I reformatted. Now that I am trying to import the data I am unable. It keeps asking me to create a new profile. I went to the Symantec site and followed all there instructions but no where does it say under configure does it say restore identuity safe data.

Any ideas??

I created Recovery discs to backup my hard drive. I was prompted to create a set of five discs but some error prevented me from creating the last one. Hope that won’t show to be an issue later.

Now, my system crashed and I need to get all my data back, but am unsure of the steps to take to do so from the recovery discs. Can you tell me how and anything things else I might need to know? Thanks so much!

Inspiron 530s
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Memory : 4GB RAM @ 800 MHz ( 2x 2GB )

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33 Ghz 4MB L2 Cache

Gfx Card : Radeon HD2400 XT @ 256 MB

Hard Drive : 250 GB @ 7200 RPM

Keyboard + Mouse - Dell Premium Keyboard and Optical Mouse

Monitor - 19” Widescreen Monitor

Speakers - Dell A225 Speakers

Operating System - XP/Vista ( I can choose )

1 year warranty + support
3 years data protection subscription

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The PC is brand new.

Also, which one should I choose? XP or Vista?

Is there any way for me to burn about 30GB of data from my hard drive to some DVD+RWs I bought without upgrading my CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive to a multi-format CD/DVD drive? I’m thinking in particular of any software on the internet, free or commercial, that would enable me to backup data from my hard drive to some blank DVD+RWs.

Also, would there be any firmware updates for my current CD/DVD player manufacturer that would enable me to do this? Any help is appreciated, but would prefer answerers with some detailed computer knowledge.

My hard drive is a HITACHI DK23FA-60 60GB ATA-IDE interface, with 5,400 RPM and 2.5" length.

My optical drive is a SONY CD-RW CRX830E high speed CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive.

My computer is a laptop notebook pc - HP Pavillion ze4805us

How much should this PC cost?

This is a desktop PC.
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Memory : 4GB RAM at 800 MHz ( 4x 1GB )

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 at 2.33 Ghz 4MB L2 Cache

Gfx Card : Radeon HD2400 XT at 256 MB

Hard Drive : 250 GB at 7200 RPM

Keyboard + Mouse - Premium Keyboard and Optical Mouse

Monitor - 19” Widescreen Monitor

Operating System - XP/Vista ( I can choose )

1 year warranty + active support
3 years data protection service
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The PC is brand new.

My hard drive crashed and I am only able to access it by booting through a Linux CD. I can access the internet and my hard drive, and want to backup my data to a free web site. All I have (such as mozy) require you to install software to back up to their sites, but I can’t install it because of my problems. Are there any free backup sites that don’t require a software installation?

Since installing F-Secure internet security 2007, my Windows 2000 systems’ responsiveness to clicking buttons etc seems to be much higher, especially a few minutes after resuming from hibernation.

The total ram usage on the machine has increased to 313/512MB.
The hard drive is quite slow, ATA-66, Maxtor DiamondMax 32049h2.

Using the system monitor, I am not noticing any spikes in % CPU Time, RAM Pages/Sec, Page faults/Sec, % Disk time while this laggyness is occuring.

I wonder if its something to do with hardware interupts becuase I know these can cause spurious problems, and it is possible that the onboard networking was being used to update F-Secure when it was laggy . The computer is a Compaq Evo D500 sff with NVidia Vanta LT AGP graphics (latest drivers).

Any ideas/suggestions appreciated!
{THIS IS A *WORK* MACHINE.
2GHZ P4 512MB RAM. HDD’S SLOW.
Why upgrade, it works fine with W2K. I hate the notion of Vista.}

*IT’S THE CLIPBOARD, WHENEVER I COPY ANYTHING (text when I realised), IT SLOWS TO A CRAWL.*

I’ve gotta work on eliminating some variables, any *REASONABLE* suggestions appreciated.

My PS3 YLoD’d on me earlier this week, Is there anyway I can backup my PS3’s data? I know how to take out the hard drive, Can I take it out and put it in my macbook???

I formatted my mother’s hard drive and reinstalled a fresh Windows XP for her. But I lost track and totally forgot to backup her files. Are those files still recoverable even tho I have formatted her hard drive?

I just had a situation where I had to reformat my hard drive and lose all my information, programs, data everything, because I had a virus so bad that I couldn’t repair no matter what I tried. Now that I have my computer back up and running correctly I want to make sure it stay that way. I have installed AVG 9.0 free addition, Spybot search and destroy and CCleaner. Is this enough to make sure my computer catches everything? Also I know that too much protection is just as bad as not having enough protection, is this too much for my computer? Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I have been working as a computer tech for a few years, and normally when I have to do a data backup of someones hard drive when I cannot access windows via the hard drive’s original system, I plug it in thru a raid card on one of my diagnostic computers. I have also run into the issue of having to change the owner of the folder via the security settings in the folder properties. Now, if it were a functioning version of windows, prior to me fiddling with the security settings, will it still be able to understand and access the user’s folder if i had changed the owner of it to that of someone else on another computer?

I tried just copying some of the game data and it was uncopyable but I want that data on my new PS3 hard drive. Will the backup include those uncopyable games?
That answers great but will that work with same ps3, newer hard drive?

Want to back up my stuff to a hard drive, but I already have one external connected to my comp. So this backup drive I’d like to just load and store away somewhere in case my primary goes down.

Can you do that? Will a powered-down and stored hard drive last? For how long?

I have 2 laptops and 1 pc (that I never use) that I want to backup the data on. I am going to use an online service like Carbonite or Mozy but don’t want to pay for an account for each computer. Should I buy one hard drive that I pull from and have it backed up? Or what is the best way to accomplish this?

security updates for Microsoft visual c++2005 service pack 1 redistributable package (kb9732… failed error code 80070424. i deleted 26 gigabytes of data thinking it might have needed more room for the hard drive. help will be greatly appreciated

and ummm im using DVDs not a hard drive cz i dont have one, so how does it work? i need everytime to back up on a new disc?! doesnt make sense to me :S

My motherboard went out, so I bought a new mobo, ram, etc, but the hard drive is still good. Plugged everything in, and it won’t boot up. I get an error, "System32\drivers\ntfs.sys" is missing or corrupt. I am told that this is something Microsoft does to combat software piracy. That’s fine. I’ve done a fresh install on another drive, and copied all my files over. The only thing I still need to do is get all my information from Outlook. My last PST backup was in December, so that’s useless. If there was a way to open Outlook on this drive, and make a backup, all would be fine - any ideas?
I need info for OUTLOOK, not outlook express

got the idea from my boss, and now I’m confused. I currently have my laptop doing a regular formatting of the hard drive of the external I put together (400GB). It’s in a enclosure you have to plug it to power on. The issue is that I did a quick format and it wasn’t recognized when I plugged it into the PS3; as in it can’t find it. Do I have to do anything specific to get this hard drive to work so that I can back up the data? I am going to be switching my 60GB HDD with a 320GB HDD when this finally gets resolved.
are there any FREE programs online to convert my external to FAT32? I seem to only have the option to convert it into NTFS and as was stated already and from what I’ve read before it won’t recognize it. Thanks in advance.