Windows 7 won't start Startup repair won't fix it.

I did click finish. All partitions look fine but there's no indication what to do next. No"exit" or anything. What do you mean when you wrote:"you need to select the whole drive to recover"???
Also, on the page I'm still on, on the left is: "1 Operation pending "and lower "1 partition recovery on disk 1" . If you click on that one, you get: "create partition (Disk1 LB...) but it stops there.
Also, in the status of my partitions,only the system reserve is listed as active. All the others are listed as "none"

 

Full scan at the beginning for the whole drive only.
I have no idea about 'operation pending'......I haven't encountered that before.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/video-help/partition-recovery/partition-recovery.html
You will need to close it at the top right corner and pull the CD out when the computer reboots.

 

Don't understand what you means here.

Seems the first thing to do is...to click "Apply" and then you can leave.

I did click apply. Got out of there. Did remove the DVD. Did put the Ubuntu stick back in. Now,it's uploading. My D: drive is now "Local Disk" My pictures are there.Thanks! Seems the C: drive is still screwed up but I guess I will have to do a clean install for the whole thing. How do I get my pictures out of there without having to use a USB stick or to burn a DVD?

In fact, since I already have the Ubuntu stick running and that I have only one of those so it's not a possibility. And, to burn a DVD doesn't seems to be a possibility either...with Ubuntu Live CD. What about buying an Ethernet cable to plug both laptops together? Don't you have to have a special software to do that too?

 

Instead of spending it on an ethernet cable, buy a new USB drive and download your pictures. What is the total size of your files? Ubuntu will detect the USB drive.

 

Well...believe it or not I spent the whole week working on this for saving...less than 50 pictures for about 250 MB. That's all I had that wasn't backed up. Since I will most likely have to make a clean install then I will lose evrything I have on my D: drive. There I got like 90 GB of stuff that would have to be tranferred so doing so with an USB drive isn't very appealing.

Thinking of it for now...can the Ubuntu Live CD USB drive content be saved in a folder in my other laptop and then burned to a DVD ? I would then use this to boot the laptop? This would free my USB drive and I could finally be sure these un-backed pictures will be finally safe.

 

Do you still have the Ubuntu ISO? Use that.

 

Yes! that's what I did figure out so I didn't have to transfer anything from the USB to a DVD, One doesn't wonder why peoples use USB drive for these Live CD...a DVD powered Ubuntu is so sssslllloooowwww. Will format the USB drive now and see if Ubuntu will allow me to transfer my stuff for good.

Well...Ubuntu sure see the pendrive but...I go to local disk where my pictures are then to the exact folder where those un-backed pictures are and right click on it to "copy to" or "move to" and the only destination option are "home" and "desktop". If I click on "copy"and then go to the pendrive there's no paste or way to drop the copy in there. Last option is the "send to" where I have to send it as "removable disks and shares" into the "Pendrive" but seems some kind of compression will happen and you have 3 choices of files them being .ZIP - .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 .One real wonder what that sh.. will do to them?
Well...I just did click on send and,I got this box like "saving stuff to archive". As soon as I did click on send the DVD did start spinning and the little green LED on the USB stick wasn't flashing. I have no clue yet where these pictures went.
They actually went to the USB drive as a zip file. Now will try to burn them to my back-up DVD and that will be it! Oufs! Thanks for all your help idiot101. I appreciate it!

 

you need to mount the pictures to the desktop and then move them to the usb drive. You cannot move the data directly from the HDD to the USB without the software layer. Windows is broken, so Ubuntu will need them in its realm.

Glad things worked out for you.

 

Well...it did work anyhow. Sure, I got them as a .zip file but I did open the file and then move the pictures to a folder and did burn them to a DVD from there. Do you think this would do any harm to the quality of the pictures?
P.S. Things sure did work out in some way but...I still have a crippled laptop. Still a lot of work to do to put it back the way it use to be.Thanks again!

 

Nothings gonna happen to the data. It will simply put your files together to make it easy to copy offer. Extract it in another computer and check the pictures for any damage. There shouldn't be any.

Installing Windows 7 should be easy on your Gateway. That is the least of your worries. Make sure you download your version of Windows that the laptop came with (I believe it is Windows 7 Home Premium). Download a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium with SP1 from the website I gave.
Windows 7 Direct Download Links
Burn it on to the USB drive using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool
Microsoft Store
Keep the C partititon to be at least 100 GB. Use your OEM license at the bottom of the laptop to activate Windows. It will definitely work. If it tells you that verification failed, use the telephone method on a landline only. The Cell phone call is not toll free.

And you are set. If you have a license for Office, then download it from here
Office 2010 Direct Download Links
Office 2007 Direct Download Links
Download the latest versions (with service packs) and use the existing key to activate. Will definitely work.

To setup the computer after installation, go to Ninite - Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once
This is a one click resource for most necessary software. Download Ccleaner to remove the crap you will accumulate on a daily basis. All this should take you a couple of hours. In the background, you can start copying your data too. I would recommend using TeraCopy (available in Ninite) to get things moving.

This should make it quick and painless for you. If you have any other issues, there are plenty of resources online to help you out. I recommend using free/open source software if a good one is available like 7zip.

 

Thanks! When you download something to "My pictures" - "My videos" or "My music", where does that stuff get saved? Does it wind up in the C: drive partition?
Also, seems GParted -- A free application for graphically managing disk device partitions has the very same tool as the Minitool website, meaning a partition wizard bootable CD.

 

Yes. But I have worked with Minitool and haven't used Gparted. I went with what was familiar to me. I am basically blind here trying to help you without looking at your laptop. I had to minimize the risks.

Yes, on the C drive.

 

I finally did nuke my C: drive...by using Acer Recovery Management. I had hope these guys at minitool would be of some help to recover stuff I had in my C: drive but...to recover stuff from a non showing partition...you have to pay. So, I lost what I had in My pictures,My videos and My music but...these weren't so important. I also lost all my free programs but that , unless I'm wrong, there's nothing you can do to back them up.

By the way, Recuva doesn't work with an Ubuntu Live CD and testdisk doesn't work with an Ubuntu Live CD either. Apparently, testdisk comes bundled with the Gparted Live CD but, I did download it and never could find testdisk. Also, testdisk is suppose to come bundled with Black Ubuntu but...it's a 10 hrs plus download.

So,the big plus is that all my D: drive files were still up so I did save many hours not having to upload them again.

If there's something I would suggest to peoples...stay away from this partition wizard company
AOMEI's free data backup software for disk, partition, system and file backup & recovery for Windows Oss. ( I'm not implying any other company is any better)
Don't save anything to "My Pictures"- "My Videos" or "My Music" . It just clog your C: drive and if your laptop ever stop to boot, you will most likely lose all that stuff. Save those stuff to your D: drive and they will most likely be easier to recover if anything bad happen.

Thanks again idiot101. You've been of precious help.

 

Since my laptop is now working again with Windows 7, there was nothing preventing me to use Recuva...and I did. At first, it did look very promising. I did recuperate over 30,000 files but, all in all, only about 100 were working right. I guess one can say...you get what you did pay for.