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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Nintendo Wii U price drop sale
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Easy Recovery Essentials (EasyRE) review
I have a Lenovo G555 laptop that is stuck in a Windows 7 boot loop. The laptop reboots during the black Starting Windows sequence. When selecting safe mode, it hangs on atipcie.sys. The Windows install disk takes forever to load for some reason, I used recovery and automatic repair on that disk but the problem still persists (It took several hours to finally complete). I decided to give EasyRE a try based on the many positive reviews. The automatic repair takes forever to load on my machine, similar to the Windows install disk automatic repair. I was stuck at "Please Wait" for what felt like about 15 minutes:
Once it finally loaded, it was unable to find any valid Windows installs on the disk where Windows is installed and attempts to boot from:
I decided to use the browse/backup files function to try and salvage the files so I can just reformat and reinstall Windows. When selecting my hard drive I receive an error. Any other volume browses just fine, including the other thumb drive I inserted to test:
I tried the partition editor, where only the bootable USB drive showed up, the hard drive wasn't shown at all. I was starting to think the EasyRE software must not be very good so I tried hooking the drive up to my desktop PC. While the drive is hooked up, I selected my working hard drive to boot from. It freezes on the black Starting Windows screen. I think the laptop hard drive is just physically broken at this point. I am going to take it into the repair shop to see if they can recover my files.
As far my experience with EasyRE the purchase and download process was very pleasant. The file size was only about 50mb. I am unsure what will happen when new versions are released but it seems the single download of the current version is all you get. Burning it to a CD was very easy and painless. I decided to create a USB because it may run faster on the machine (it didn't). Creating a bootable USB was a little more difficult but using the instructions contained in the email I received with my purchase I was able to create the bootable USB using EasyBCD which I was able to obtain for free for personal use only. The EasyRE software boots up well and seems to contain all the features it claims to. I'm sure that it would have fixed my problems if they were software only, but I am almost certain the hard drive is physically broken. I feel that EasyRE is quicker, easier but most importantly more powerful and feature rich that the Windows installation disk. A single successful use could easily justify the cost. I intend keeping it in my arsenal of PC repair tools for the next time Windows won't boot on one of my PCs. EasyRE can be purchased here, use "play demo" for a nice video walk-through of features:
http://systemdiscs.com
I decided to use the browse/backup files function to try and salvage the files so I can just reformat and reinstall Windows. When selecting my hard drive I receive an error. Any other volume browses just fine, including the other thumb drive I inserted to test:
I tried the partition editor, where only the bootable USB drive showed up, the hard drive wasn't shown at all. I was starting to think the EasyRE software must not be very good so I tried hooking the drive up to my desktop PC. While the drive is hooked up, I selected my working hard drive to boot from. It freezes on the black Starting Windows screen. I think the laptop hard drive is just physically broken at this point. I am going to take it into the repair shop to see if they can recover my files.
As far my experience with EasyRE the purchase and download process was very pleasant. The file size was only about 50mb. I am unsure what will happen when new versions are released but it seems the single download of the current version is all you get. Burning it to a CD was very easy and painless. I decided to create a USB because it may run faster on the machine (it didn't). Creating a bootable USB was a little more difficult but using the instructions contained in the email I received with my purchase I was able to create the bootable USB using EasyBCD which I was able to obtain for free for personal use only. The EasyRE software boots up well and seems to contain all the features it claims to. I'm sure that it would have fixed my problems if they were software only, but I am almost certain the hard drive is physically broken. I feel that EasyRE is quicker, easier but most importantly more powerful and feature rich that the Windows installation disk. A single successful use could easily justify the cost. I intend keeping it in my arsenal of PC repair tools for the next time Windows won't boot on one of my PCs. EasyRE can be purchased here, use "play demo" for a nice video walk-through of features:
http://systemdiscs.com
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Office 2010 20-23% off at Buy.com:
Office 2010 Home and Business with installation CD
Office 2010 Home and Business key only $159.95
Click here to download the installer from Microsoft if you have a key only
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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