I run WinXP Home edition on my laptop. I just recently
lost a large amount of data. Curiously, not all of my
files were affected, but only the ones that I attempted
to back-up to a CD-RW. On my laptop, the icons for these
files still appear w/ their original names but these
files are all 0 kb in file size and when I try to open
them, there is nothing there. Unfortunately, the back-up
to my CD-RW apparently did not work because all of those
files are also 0 kb and have nothing in them. I'm pretty
sure that I backed up the data correctly (although I may
not have). Is there any way to retrieve/recover this
lost data since the icons and file names are still
present in their original folders?

Any help would be appreciated.

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S wrote:
> I run WinXP Home edition on my laptop. I just recently
> lost a large amount of data. Curiously, not all of my
> files were affected, but only the ones that I attempted
> to back-up to a CD-RW. On my laptop, the icons for these
> files still appear w/ their original names but these
> files are all 0 kb in file size and when I try to open
> them, there is nothing there. Unfortunately, the back-up
> to my CD-RW apparently did not work because all of those
> files are also 0 kb and have nothing in them. I'm pretty
> sure that I backed up the data correctly (although I may
> not have). Is there any way to retrieve/recover this
> lost data since the icons and file names are still
> present in their original folders?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.