Software/hard drive problems after a power cut

[cookiesco1976]

Hello,
i had a powercut yesterday while the pc was on and now norton/itunes are missing files. when i try to reinstall it doesn't work? any ideas

 

[kilo two nine]

Hello,
i had a powercut yesterday while the pc was on and now norton/itunes are missing files. when i try to reinstall it doesn't work? any ideas

is it a external hard drive? my HDD locked up and had to do a hard restart, reformating the HDD and somone told me to use Recuva, it can recover deleted files or files you cant access that have not been deleted , the software is a bit slow but gets the job done.

 

[cookiesco1976]

Its an internal HDD that only got replaced in November due to it frying perviously. We were hoping we wouldn't need to re-format it and re-install the OS etc. There's nothing major on the PC except game saves really that we should be able to transfer over to the laptop temporarily. Do you know of a simple step by step on how to re-format a Windows 7 OS HDD and then is it just a case of inserting the back-up disks when the blank drive starts up again? Thanks

 

[dish_moose]

Have you tried restore?
-Bruce

 

[cookiesco1976]

yip restore points have vanished

 

[cookiesco1976]

Have been chatting to a mate we're going to re-format and re-install seems to be the easiest option.

Cheers

Paul