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Warranty is long over. When the laptop stopped recognizing its battery and a new Sony replacement, the previous owner shelved it in disgust and bought a Toshiba. It's been sitting for about a year. I like the computer since it runs circles around my older HP P4 monster, but it seems that Sony...

Yes, it was in a Ziploc type bag in the deep freeze for 24 hrs. On the other hand, the Western Digital drive that caused the whole problem refused to come back to life after its soak in the freezer so it's a paper weight.

I have a 180GB Seagate that quit working and I froze about a year go and it's still going strong. I don't put any data on it that I would hate to lose as I figure it's going to fail sometime, but so far, no problems since it's 24 hrs in the deep freeze.

I have a lightly used Sony VAIO VGN SZ110 laptop that runs great except for the fact that it doesn't recognize or see the battery. Unplugging it has the same result as if you unplugged a desktop. The battery icon in the task bar shows no battery preset. There is a brand new battery in the...

I'll try the battery solution first. It's a new mobo but who knows how long the battery has been in or if it's defective. As far as saving the settings goes, yes, I save them after I reset the order (again) each time. I also know how to reset the BIOS with the jumper and will try that if the...

I have a Micro Star International P7N SLI Platinum Mobo that changes the boot sequence by itself no matter what order I put them in or if I disable all boot devices. It assigns the floppy first, then my optical drives and then my hard drives. If I assign the boot HD, it lives with that unless it...

I noticed that once I was able to get back into my Vista drive, CHKDSK had moved all of my document files into a found0000.chk set of files as well as all my program files. I had about 53 of these files on the disk. I was never able to restore so did a clean install and all seems to be working...

Hindsight is 20/20 vision. I have definitely learned my lesson.

I finally gave up and cloned my reinstalled Vista over it. There were really only a few files that were encrypted and I decided I could live without them. Some I can recreate without too much trouble. I've learned the hard way that I have to back things up. I've never had this much trouble...

tlcousin, The problem is that I can't even get into the individual files in order to take ownership. The drive says I have ownership but still won't let me access it in Vista although when running XP, I can access it just fine except for the encrypted files of course.

Vista Business

I have taken ownership of the drive and it still says access denied. I have given the administrator account full permissions and still denied. I have the key for the encrypted files so once I get them copied over, I should be able to resave them once I get the drive cloned.

How do you take ownership of the drive? I have admin right currently and I have gone into to the properties window for the drive and attempted to give both System and my login full permissions on the drive to no avail. If I can get into the drive, I can find the cert.

Upon reinstalling Vista on another HD due to a catastrophic boot failure, the new install won't let me access the old drive. I CAN access it with XP Home but, I have some encrypted files I would like to recover and XP Home doesn't do encryption. I have managed to salvage just about everything...

I had a similar problem. My machine froze solid and I had to use reset to get it started again. I was in a dual boot configuration with XP as the second OS. Upon restart, Vista said there had been a problem and ran CHKDSK on its own. After it completed, it seemed to boot up normally as I got...