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Oops... I assumed that because wizzard automatically looked for a modem driver when i connected the LAN cable that that was the problem. My modem thingy could be a combined ethernet card too - i'll check and post back. As for the local/remote question - I don't know. Its in a hotel, I plug an LAN cable from my laptop to a socket on the wall. So... local?

Am trying to connect my old Dell Inspiron 1200 to a LAN and am having problems but I'm not sure what exactly is wrong. My lappy opens new hardware wizzard when I start up and have the LAN cable plugged in, the wizzard continues but claims it cant find the required driver to install for the PCI modem. I have a Conexant RD02-D110 modem. I found and tried to run a file called HXFSetup in a Conexant file, but it comes up with the error: Driver Installation Failed: Could not find the XXXX device for this driver. My (simpleton) analysis of this problem is that the driver cant find the modem and the modem cant find the driver! Is that right?! And if so what is the soln?? Thanks.

Thanks for all the help everyone I manged to image my hard drive using SelfImage (nice and simple user interface), then I used Zar with partial success - recovered about half my data, and a LOT of other random stuff. Not bad for a novice, but there are a few things that are still bothering me: 1) I have an 80G hard drive but Zar claimed to be able to recover over 500G of stuff... how is that possible?? 2) The documents I want to retrieve are mixed up with a lot of stuff I'm not interested in keeping... and ideas on how to sort the good from the bad? I just have hundreds of folders and files with helpful names like 'DIR0230' and 'FRG05839'... The best way I've found so far is to search by file type. 3) There is one word doc in particular I was hoping to recover, and I have retrieved several files with the same name(see attatched for part of one), but when opened in MS Word they are goble-de-goock! Is there anyway I can fix stuff like this? goble.rtf

Thanks for both the speedy replies! I'm running Windows XP Pro. Yes the D drive has always been in existance - empty - and I have always been puzzled by it. The computer whizz already deleted the D partition I think. Disk Manager has its name (D), size and healthy status, but it has no file system and cannot be explored. SmaugyGrrr - what do you mean by an 'external enclosure'? You mean run ZAR from an external hard drive, or clone the whole drive on to an external hard drive then run ZAR? I have both an external hard drive and another computer if they're needed... (Yup you guessed it - I'm going to try doing this myself... If I mess up I mess up, hopefully I will learn something on the way! - on my way to becoming a (real) computer whizz! Oh yeah! -

So... I was having many problems with my laptop (many BSODs) and when it lost it's start button and task bar I'd had enough... I got the local computer 'whizz' (youknow, my sister's friend's brother) to take a look at it, and before I knew it he'd recovered my system (by using the recovery console in safemode to get the origional recovery system, apparently) and returned it to the state it was in when I purchased it... which was fine, but it a)hasn't reduced the number of BSODs I'm seeing (although it has returned my start button) and b)has meant ~20G of my UNBACKED-UP data has been lost. After system recovery I still have all the programs that came preinstalled, but MyDocs etc is empty Mr computer whizz seemed to think that nothing would have been lost, or that it would be stored elsewhere - but I can't find it. I've been doing some fiddling (I know this is bad because I am probably writing over my old data - but what else can I do?!): Disk Manager says I currently have 3 partitions called C,D and RECOVERY. C has the usual stuff in, D is empty and mr computer whizz thought it would be a good idea to delete it and RECOVERY is 'Unknown' so I can't see what's in it. I know I have many problems at the moment, but the one I would like help with is the recovery of my data... Is there some software that can help me out? Or is it forever lost? Why is my hard drive split into C and D partitions, can I combine them? What is the RECOVERY partition? Could some of my data be in there?! How can I look inside it???