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a friend of mine asked me last night to help them fix their system, they're
getting a no OS message and it appears as if the drive is no longer even
formatted or partitioned. i haven't had a chance to actually check the
system myself yet but i have a feeling it's not a hardware failure and i'm
thinking it might be a virus or something messed up the drives boot sector.
(they never update their antivirus software and don't run a firewall) their
critical data is backed up at least so i'm tempted to just re partition and
format the drive, start over and let that be a lesson to them but i was
wondering are there any decent freeware tools for recovering data in this
situation? if not what are the good payware tools?
a friend of mine asked me last night to help them fix their system, they're
getting a no OS message and it appears as if the drive is no longer even
formatted or partitioned. i haven't had a chance to actually check the
system myself yet but i have a feeling it's not a hardware failure and i'm
thinking it might be a virus or something messed up the drives boot sector.
(they never update their antivirus software and don't run a firewall) their
critical data is backed up at least so i'm tempted to just re partition and
format the drive, start over and let that be a lesson to them but i was
wondering are there any decent freeware tools for recovering data in this
situation? if not what are the good payware tools?