I have a hard disk recovery/image problem.
My HDD from a Lenovo IdeaPad Y510 recently failed to boot. I kept getting a "windows corrupted, insert Vista disk and boot from cd" type of message. The optical drive is not working, and I didn't have a Vista install or rescue disk anyway. I have some files on the HDD that I would really like to retrieve, and of course did not recently backup. Vista hung up while logging off so I forced a shutdown, and it failed to reboot, so I am hoping it may be some sort of registry error and not a drive failure.
Lenovo has a factory reset button, but I would like to recover files first if possible. The laptop used the Veriface facial recognition software for logging in, although I typically hit the log-in button and used my password, but I still had it running. I have tried imaging the drive using Macrium Reflect, but get a message stating "the process cannot access the file because another process has locked part of the file". At this point I am not sure if it won't image because of drive failure or if it can't because it is password protected. It is possible the drive has failed. I'm fairly careful with it, but it has taken a couple hits over the years (hence the dead optical drive). I would know if the drive is dead by resetting it, but would lose the files.
Ideally I would like to image the drive on another computer, re-install the HDD in the laptop, and reset to factory defaults (and then probably replace the drive just in case and upgrade to W7 with a clean install). I just want to try to preserve all the files I can on the old drive.
If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
My HDD from a Lenovo IdeaPad Y510 recently failed to boot. I kept getting a "windows corrupted, insert Vista disk and boot from cd" type of message. The optical drive is not working, and I didn't have a Vista install or rescue disk anyway. I have some files on the HDD that I would really like to retrieve, and of course did not recently backup. Vista hung up while logging off so I forced a shutdown, and it failed to reboot, so I am hoping it may be some sort of registry error and not a drive failure.
Lenovo has a factory reset button, but I would like to recover files first if possible. The laptop used the Veriface facial recognition software for logging in, although I typically hit the log-in button and used my password, but I still had it running. I have tried imaging the drive using Macrium Reflect, but get a message stating "the process cannot access the file because another process has locked part of the file". At this point I am not sure if it won't image because of drive failure or if it can't because it is password protected. It is possible the drive has failed. I'm fairly careful with it, but it has taken a couple hits over the years (hence the dead optical drive). I would know if the drive is dead by resetting it, but would lose the files.
Ideally I would like to image the drive on another computer, re-install the HDD in the laptop, and reset to factory defaults (and then probably replace the drive just in case and upgrade to W7 with a clean install). I just want to try to preserve all the files I can on the old drive.
If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
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