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Recovery.


Question Posted Thursday April 17 2008, 10:39 pm

OKay we did this thing to our computer and lost everything a recovery or something and we click backup but it still we lost everything and my mom is freaking out cause her taxes were saved on it and i was looking through everything saving and deleting things and i came across a thing that said recovery and it said there was space and taken space i was wondering it that was all are old stuff and if we opened it and it was all our old stuff would we lose what we have already saved on or if we had to get a flash drive to put the new stuff on and saved with the old stuff. I just dont wanna lose all my pictures and things if its the back up.

Sorry if its confusing.
PLease Help.
Thankssss!!!!!!!!


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ChevyIINova answered Monday April 21 2008, 3:26 am:
Yes, this is confusing to say the least. I'm not sure if I get what you've done, let alone the operating system (OS) you are running. Sounds like you've may have used "restore point" found in Windows XP. Restore points don't fix everything. If you are able to access your data back it up IMMEDIATELY using, preferable another hard drive and if you don't have another drive such as a backup hard drive, USB drive or external hard drive, use a CD/DVD writer.

If you are unable to access the drive there's hope still. You can install another hard drive, (may require buying another hard drive) install the OS on the new drive, then the one that has the problem, set it to slave and then try accessing the slave drive when the OS loads up.

There's also a few free software recovery tools out there but from past experiences they are pretty much worthless and the paid ones that are decent quite expensive. There's other ways to get that data but may require some cash and expert help.

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