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The power supply went out on my tower and corrupted my boot sectors before I could diagnose the problem. This was preceded by my fans getting really noisy making me think my machine was overheating but monitoring proved they weren't.
So I replaced the power supply with one that was 700-800 watts (last one was about 500) and got a new tower with more fans and more room (the front fans don't work for some reason) and got a new video card as the last one turns out to have a reputation for overheating.
The Windows I had wasn't able to recover the Windows 10 - it was upgraded from Windows 7. It is not able to restore a Windows boot sector. My buddy gave me a license for a new version of W10 but it also is not able to recover old versions, which he said normal for this very new version. In fact, it was a recommended that it be used with a new install.
Which it did and wiped everything.
Long story short, is anyone aware of the best tools for recovering overwritten files? My knowledge of them is out of date now.
I've barely used this machine in order not to lose them and because it's going to be a lot of work getting it back to where I want. Also, the liquid cooling fans are too loud still and the case fans don't work so good bet I'm going to replace those too as soon as I get a job.
thanks.
So I replaced the power supply with one that was 700-800 watts (last one was about 500) and got a new tower with more fans and more room (the front fans don't work for some reason) and got a new video card as the last one turns out to have a reputation for overheating.
The Windows I had wasn't able to recover the Windows 10 - it was upgraded from Windows 7. It is not able to restore a Windows boot sector. My buddy gave me a license for a new version of W10 but it also is not able to recover old versions, which he said normal for this very new version. In fact, it was a recommended that it be used with a new install.
Which it did and wiped everything.
Long story short, is anyone aware of the best tools for recovering overwritten files? My knowledge of them is out of date now.
I've barely used this machine in order not to lose them and because it's going to be a lot of work getting it back to where I want. Also, the liquid cooling fans are too loud still and the case fans don't work so good bet I'm going to replace those too as soon as I get a job.
thanks.