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    Hard Drive Problem

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Metaphoric, Oct 12, 2009.

  1. Metaphoric

    Metaphoric Newbie

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    I have a 2 year old Sony Vaio FE770.

    Last week i tried to restore the system to back date due to some problem in my windows explorer. By mistake i clicked on restore to factory setting, upon realizing the mistake I aborted the process which was only 10% complete by switching of the laptop.

    Now when I restarted is says "_Operating system problem" and stays there.

    I have a back up disk to reboot but what I want to know is that, is my data on the disk gone? can it be recovered? I had no partition of the drive so everything was on C drive which had 120 GB capacity.

     
    Metaphoric, Oct 12, 2009
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  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    You can try pulling the drive out and connecting it to another system as an external, and see what you can pull.

    Most likely, some of the data tables will have been overwritten, and thus the only way to get to your data would be with a file recovery software since there is no longer a recognizable path to that data.
     
    Lithus, Oct 12, 2009
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