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jraju:
Hi,
                      This has happened to one of my friends. All of a sudden, when installing windows 7 on already having os system, thro external setup.exe, normally, it create windows.old and overwrite the partition with new installation files.  But, when installing the new , when on first reboot after all the menu except finalising windows installation, the computer never reboot and stayed still on intel sign. He tried all sorts but this does not solve the problem. I think that c: has been corrupted somehow. But he has files in other drives, which could not be accessed because of this problem.
                          My question, could those be retrieved somehow.
while installing windows c: was deleted to install new windows .
                             

Shane:
Depends on how the drive is having trouble. If it is hardware related then it will be hard to recover anything. If it is a simple file system error then you can use 3rd party software to recover the data before you wipe and reinstall windows :wink:

But there is no perfect answer for it, because it completely depends on the problem itself.

Shane

jraju:
additional input from my friend.
                         he tried to recover data from other computer. It showed the last position on that computer, ie., Finalising windows installation, when the problem started.
                            he did not have the dvd at the time. he asked his friend to delete the c: and format, so that he could install afresh. This was done. But when he tried to boot the os dvd, the same intel sign shows. He is fed up. Now his hard disc has no os but had his other three drives. Could it be possible to recover. It is not file system error.

Shane:
You could try a delete recovery, but Windows install then wrote over a lot of that data, so he isnt going to be able to recover much.

What was the error he kept getting during the install? Was it an error about not being able to find a file or read the dvd drive? I have had that happen before and it turned out to be the dvd drive itself causing the problem (Old drive didnt like the dvd-r I used or the drive was bad)

So now I always install windows 7 from a usb stick instead, I bet he might have better luck that way. There is a free tool you can us to move the install from the dvd to a usb thumb drive, or I can give you the download links for the windows 7 isos.

Shane

jraju:
Hi, Thanks for prompt reply. There was no error shown. When the install was completing, it should have rebooted to finish the installation, which did not finish resulting in intel sign. So, i think that it would have been failure of dvd at that point in time, but most probably hard disk faillure. Hard disk showed the screen when tried with the other computer, but my friend has asked for reformat the c: drive, i think that the OS was totally deleted . Would it corrupt the hard drive. Now he wants to retrieve the files he saved in those other drives. He has only tried to reinstall the windows in the existing system drive c:
                           If this is due to hard disk, could not the other drives files be some what retrieved?

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