i am in need of cherite artifical disk replacement at 2 levels, is there a government grant out there to help?
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The Government has created a portal to help individuals who need benefits because of life events. Visit http://www.govbenefits.gov\n\nUse the drop down button\nDO YOU NEED BENEFITS BECAUSE OF A LIFE EVENT?\nChoose the life situation best applicable to you and then see if you qualify for the available government assistance.\n\nForget grant money - there's hardly any money for individuals. Go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) and Grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. But you'd be hard pressed to find any grant that would support individuals.
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Call the people you brought the computer from and have them fix it. They should have given you the CDs.
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You can't restore it without a restore disk.  However, you can try calling them and giving them the seriel number.  They might replace the restore disk for free or for cheap.  Otherwise you need to purchase Windows, which is coming out with a new operating system in January, and purchasing any programs you want.  You might be better off buying a new computer.  If you don't care about getting the newest version of windows you might get a great deal right now.  Computer retailers are worried that they won't be able to sell any computers for Christmas with the operating system being outdated a month later, so they will be very motivated to make a deal.
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there are companys who can data recovery on those drive and should only be considered if the data is very very important and irreplacable if it is something you want to consider google it; if not just start rebuilding bigger and better than before
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Possibly.\n\nIt really depends on the type of failure. If they drive fails in such a way that it is no longer even detectable by the BIOS, then it's likely a lost cause.\n\nIf however it's some sort of bad sector issue where you can't write to the disc and the operating system no longer boots, you can either remove the drive and put it in an external enclosure (or install it into another computer) and pull files off of it that way. Alternatively, you can also use a bootable os like windows BartPE or Knoppix to get access from the disc and send the data over the network to another computer (or copy it to another hard drive in your current computer).\n\nIF the latter works, you will still lose whatever data was contained in the corrupted sectors.\n\nIf the drive will not spin anymore, you could purchase the same drive (make and model) and remove the top cover (careful not to let any dust in), remove the good platters and put in the platters from the failed disk. Once you've done that, reseal the new drive (now containing the old platters) and turn it on, should work good as new ;). The solution that is best: if the motor is shot and it won't spin anymore, there is virtually nothing you can do. You can take it to a professional recovery service (and I'm not talking about BestBuy or CompUSA) where they will charge you an arm a leg and a first born child for a couple GB of data, but if it's that important then that is your only option.
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If you really dont care of the contents on your cp just do what i did when i had all problems: Get ur disk thats ur home like windows xp or watever and put it in when the cp reboots. But you gotta know what your doing. Also if you have some spar cash look in the yellow pages for computer repair
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It depends on what version you have.  If you registered the software, contact microsoft.com or call a representative and they will forward a replacement disk. However, if is an older version they may not have it. And in that case you will have to locate it at a flea market or  some other computer retail place that still sells older versions.  Hope this helps. Lastly you can always get a trail version at microsoft.com.
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I'm not sure where you could get a grant, but I'm sure there are many organizations that would help you. A visit to a government office would probably help you more than anything else. \n\nBut most of all, welcome to America!
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I am attempting to give my computer to an organization for missionaries. If I cannot find one, I will let you know. 211 has rarely helped me. However, if they are smart, they will list you with their organization.  Call as many social service organizations that you can to let them know what you want to do. Even Tv stations may be able to give you some help. Keep up the good work.
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get this http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1733195&CatId=2213\nstick your hard drive in it and plug it in the usb port and you can get all of the info from your old drive and now you have a handy, portable hard drive!
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hi there,\nwell,u'r situation isn't as hopeless as above was described.\nAcronis Disk Director should be ur solution.\nit's Recovery Expert feature , predestinated for just ur situations (when partition is deleted accidently).\nAnyway if it won't help Acronis company gives 30 day money-back guarantee.\nso,u can get ur money back.
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More likely than not, you need a new drive.
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Perhaps you can purchase another reformat disk from the computer company.  Or might be better to buy a new  preprogrammed one that comes with the restores disks.  \nE
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The best thing to do is buy a new computer since you can get them so cheap right now. That processor (celeron 333) is very slow, so even upgrading the memory (ram) may help a tiny bit, but it can only go so fast. \n\nYou probably don't have a cd-rw in that old computer right? Probably a cd drive and floppy? To transfer files I would first start by signing up to a free photo sharing program (www.photobucket.com) and uploading as many pictures as possible! Save anything you don't want to lose that is small enough on floppies (unles you do have a cdrw then it's much easier, just put everything on there).\n\nWrite a list of all the programs you use on your start menu. This is important so you know the names of everything you want to replace. If there are games you installed or other programs from cd, find the original disks.\n\nAnother thing I found helpful when transferring was to find a website you can load your files to or emailing them to yourself online so you don't lose the important ones.\n\nThere are other ways of transferring data (networking the computers, buying the software that transfers everything over with a click) that you might want to look into also. You can also pick up a thumb drive that will fit in your usb port to back up to that might be easy for around $50.
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No. There is no eay way. Perhaps the easiest is to simply buy another hard disk (if you can actually install one in your hardware) and install a fresh copy of the operating system on it, making it the a new c drive, but this raises some particular issues. Some applications (and many operating systems) require that certain files (configuration stuff, for instance) be on the same drive from which the system has booted (or on which the application is installed). So changing to a new drive like this will involve some obscure issues dependent on not so obvious details of how this or that program (including the operating system) was designed and implemented. \n\n==========\nThere are some things you'll have to think about here, before you do anything at all. I'll assume you aren't going to get a new hard disk, and discuss the problem as you laid it out. Namely, reformatting the existing C drive and reinstalling your system on it. \n\nDo you really need to reformat? You may be able to reinstall Windows over itself, and if a damage Windows file is part of the problem, escape without the major pain of reformatting. \n\n========\nFirst, without the installation CD (or copies of all the files from it) you're sunk. I'm not sure from what you say whether you have a copy of the CD on your second drive or not. If you don't ... Trouble lies that way. \n\nSecond, You must backup everything you have on the C drive that is not reinstalled from the distribution disks. And you must be certain that whatever backup method you choose will be able to actually read the backup formatted files after the reinstallation. It is not unusual, sadly, for some backup programs to be unable to actually read in the backup files it creates. \n"Backup" includes the operating system (Microsoft has dropped support for 98 and for SE, so you would be well advised to update -- my suggestion is to 2000, but some folks are willing to settel for 2000 Lite -- ie, XP. Or even to make this your opportunity to switch to a vendor who poses fewer problems -- the main option as I write this is one of the kind_of_Unixen), Linux -- my favorite is the SuSE distribution). And "backup" includes application files as well. Identifying just which files these are, and where they are is not always easy. Clearly all your pictures and documents you've written and would qualify, but applications (and operating systems) usually have several configuration files, history files, backup files, index files, ... which it will save time to have copes of. But, if an application doesn't provide for saving these and reinstalling them over a fresh installtion of the application, ...  There will be problems here as well. You might have to reconfigure some or all of your applications (and the operating system too) after reinstallation. this is a pain, but may be unavoidable...\n\nThird, you must be certain that any new hardware you've installed will be recognized by the Windows boot routines at reinstallation time. It might be wise to start a reinstallation (with the intent of cancelling it essentially immediately) to test whether the BIOS will call up the Windows installation routines from wherever they are, and whether they will be able to find the new hardware. Since hardware support (ie, drivers and design troubleshooting) for 98SE has mostly been dropped, increasingly more hardware will not be supported for 98SE.  Without support, you'll have to write your own drivers -- not recommended.\n\nFourth, you must, when reinstalling, configure your software in ways which are compatible with how they used to be configured, lest there be odd (perhaps fatal) happenings from the incompatibilites. Some things don't matter -- like icon colors or the shape of the cursor, but some will.\n\nFifth, keep a record of what you did and why at each step of the way, starting before you begin backing up. Include all instructions (and options) and the immediate re
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Just put your old hard drive in as a slave drive and then copy the files you want to the new hard drive. You obviously cannot get programs (unless it is just a single exe. file and nothing else) because it has to be installed and it is a different operating system.
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You can do this, you might have to contact Microsoft...just make sure to tell them you are upgrading your computer.  The licensing should work fine as long as you format your other hard drive.