Bad crash yesterday on torrent beta - virus?

Hi Hal, welcome to the forums.

Windows 7 creates a new partition of about 100MB for recovery perposes.

Have you tried re-formatting the drive from explorer? Also if you have the RC burned to DVD you could boot from it & instead of formatting then installing, try deleting the partitions and re-activating. This will completely wide your HD making it ready for installation.

Hope this helps :)




Jeff

Thanks for the suggestions.

I installed the Microsoft RC 7100 downloaded from the Microsoft site on a fresh hard drive so I am up and running. I have most of my files backed up or located on an external drive that is OK.

My main concern is trying to recover my Outlook data since my last backup from the bad drive.

I was also curious to know if there have been others with the same problem using PB beta downloads or if this is just local bad luck.

There may be several data recovery apps available, you'll nee to just google/bing 'data recovery apps'

Also as far as getting builds from other sources i'll PM you

Sorry to hear about your loss.

The only time I had to do a recovery on a hard drive not backed up that got wiped, I used EASUS data recovery wizard. It worked very well, even after a format. I was able to recover most of my files, and even a few virtual machines that were almost 5GB is size. There are some free ones out there, but I have never found ones that would recover after formatting, only after deleting them from an active partition.

As for a safety measure in the future, use the outlook backup add in, and have it dump to a 2nd or 3rd drive weekly, or even a usb drive.

Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup tool (works on 2007 too)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...875321033.aspx

as a second note.

If you use any of the Microsoft mail services (Hotmail, Live Mail) I would suggest using the outlook connector over using their pop service.

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...225181033.aspx


This add-in allows you to use the different MS mail services and keeps them stored on the MS servers. It is pretty much like a personal exchange service. You can store your contacts, calender, and mail on their servers and still access them using outlook. The benefit of this is that if you have a system crash, you dont have to worry about your PST file. It caches them in an OST (offline PST pretty much). folders, sent mail, and everything is stored on their serrvers and cached to your local machine and sync'd accross webmail. That way you don't have to ever have to back anything up. (as far as outlook is concerned)