I wiped my harddrive

[Guest]

Sorry if this is the wrong section

Ok on friday i had a problem where i think a virus deleted a .dll in
system32 and i started up and everything was fine and 1 minute later
everything was erased so i just decided to restart and it couldnt because a
..dll was deleted so i called eMachines and they told me to put my system
recovery cd in and push ctrl+backspace and it took me to manufactors menu and
and they told me to push 4,5,6 and it deleted everything off my harddrive.
Now i installed windows again and it didnt install any programs that it
installed before like nero, picture it, power dvd those kind of programs. I
remember when i had a virus i used the recovery CD and it took me to a wizard
where it said what do u want the name of your PC to be do u want to connect
to the internet that kind of stufff but it doesnt do that anymore. I had to
install all the drivers manually. Is there any way to fix this?

 

[Jim]

Sorry if this is the wrong section

Ok on friday i had a problem where i think a virus deleted a .dll in
system32 and i started up and everything was fine and 1 minute later
everything was erased so i just decided to restart and it couldnt because
a
.dll was deleted so i called eMachines and they told me to put my system
recovery cd in and push ctrl+backspace and it took me to manufactors menu
and
and they told me to push 4,5,6 and it deleted everything off my harddrive.
Now i installed windows again and it didnt install any programs that it
installed before like nero, picture it, power dvd those kind of programs.
I
remember when i had a virus i used the recovery CD and it took me to a
wizard
where it said what do u want the name of your PC to be do u want to
connect
to the internet that kind of stufff but it doesnt do that anymore. I had
to
install all the drivers manually. Is there any way to fix this?

Manually reinstall all of the applications that you want if you have a CD
for them.
Otherwise..... you are out of luck.
Also, any data that you had on the disk is now gone for good.
Jim

 

[Guest]

Before you do anything else installa program called "undelete" from
active@undelete ( http://www.active-undelete.com/ ) and you might be able to
find some files if not most. I bought it 2 years ago and it saved my day so
many times... best money ever spent, it's the most efficient undelete program
I can think of. It even allowed me to retrieve files from a Compactflash
that I was sold as new and instead contains all kind of data (images, mp3,
chinese documents...).
It won't do much good for your programs because you need the registry
entries (gotta love Windows) but if you want to try and retrieve some data,
as long as it hasn't been overwritten, it's your best bet.

Luca