I made the mistake of running a system recovery disk on my computer with out backing up my system.I have a gateway pc and I thought that i had lost all my pictures and vidios of my grandkids. Idid a search using my grandsons name and 15 pictures came up so i dont think that every thing has been deleted but when i go to my computer the D- drive is lock by pc angel is there any way to open the locked partition.
Typically pc angel is software that is use by the manufacture to protect the recovery partition. So I would not recommend breaking into that partition of your hard drive. Beside since you were able to run a search and able to get results those pictures should not be in the D drive. PC angel should not allow you to access that drive anyways just to do a simple search.
If you wish to continue to access your D drive then follow the link below.
NOTE: This may damage your recovery drive and may not be able to use the system recovery at a later date. DO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
-Suggest to make recovery disk if you have not done so already.
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-to-get-rid-of-pc-angel
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can u please describe the issue more
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I'm not sure if this helps you but have you tried using a restore point to restore to a previous state ?
This can solve a lot of problems and doesn't lose documents.
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Ensure your Keyboard is set to your proper language, Under Control Panel, Regional and Language Options!
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Hello Sasafras,
PC Angel is the vendor of the recovery software, the use a proprietor file system for encrypt there files. I can understand how frustrating it is to have the file right there but not able to use them but I'm sure it says some where in the EULA that there recover software only allows back up of 1original recover disk. Most of time you would press a F10 to boot into PC angel recover mode. In your case since your going to be upgrading to Windows XP Pro I would suggest to download the drivers from the gate way website and then update your service packs. Below is a link that has the drivers to your computers system. You can get more specific with a service tag number to narrow down the amount of components that usually ship with that model of computer.
http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn¶m=5395
this link will have all the drivers you will need to get your computer working again.
hope this helps you.
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The issue you are having involves using multiple systems,...If your emachine came with vistan and you installed xp, you voided your warranty status...However remove your dual boot and stick to vista if you wanna keep your restore partition working properly.....On a side note theres usually conflict with running OEM OS's on dual boot...typically it doesnt work and if it does it doesnt work like you want it to! so here is what you can do..Call Emachine up and fib to them a bit (just alittle) tell them that you cought a nasty bug and it messed with your restore partition and now you cant restore your pc....request the factory programing discs (if you ask nicely they'll hook you up 99.99% of the time) you get the discs so you can reprogram the pc to factory spec if you ever wanted to. Now use a retail version of vista and a retail version of xp. and create your dual boot, feel free to remove your restore partition if you want (cause you have the factory programing discs if you wanna go back to stock stuff YAY) I hope this helps!
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To create a partition from a new or newly formatted computer, make sure Windows is installed. Load any programs and drivers you would like to keep in case you need to back up to a previous version of your computer's settings.
Install your partition creation software; in this article we will use Norton Ghost. Before creating your partition, disable any anti virus and other scanning software.
Create your partition by going to your ms-dos prompt: from your Start menu, press "Run," and type "cmd" without quotations in the run dialog box. At the dos prompt, type "fdisk" without quotations, and choose option 1 (Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive). Set the partition size to 10 GB at press enter.
Open Norton Ghost and follow the instructions to create a recovery partition in the new partition you had just created. The process should take anywhere from one to three hours, depending on the size of the files you are going to back up.
Restart your computer. When done, open Norton Ghost to verify that the Recovery Partition was created.
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