Restore Error

[Guest]

First time post, hope I get this right.

A little about my system first.

I’m running XP Pro SP2
P4 2.26
1GB
120GB HDD
(10GB SYSTEM PARTITION AND REMAINDER FOR DATA)
DVDRW
DVD

About 6 months ago I started getting a lot of explorer.exe errors while I
was in Windows Explorer. It would just kick me out, refresh the desktop and
usually unload something from the system tray. I checked into this by going
to the usual sites, including Microsoft. Didn’t find anything definite so I
learned to live with it. Couple weeks ago my system started slowing down. I
noticed the hard drive was getting a little full on one of the partitions so
I cleaned up a bit. That helped. Now last week it really slowed down and I
couldn’t access my D: partition. Totally empty. 100% free. I had over
100GB on there. Attempted to restore, but it didn't.

Also, if I clicked on the start button for instance, it could take several
minutes to pop up. I again checked around the forums, etc to see if I could
dig anything up. Getting some help here and there but I wanted to see what
you thought about this.

Again, if you get a chance. I’m in a bind real bad.

 

[Netpunkz]

Hi Notsure,

Regarding your first question its a bit hard to say what happened. A
windows XP system restore will not bring back old files stored on your
HDD it is designed to keep track of changes made to windows/drivers etc
and be able to bring the system back to a working state after something
goes wrong. It sounds like the disk has been formatted but its hard to
tell. You can use a program like "getdataback for NTFS" to try to
restore your D drive but its not guarenteed (depending on how it was
deleted and if something has overwritten that area of the HDD). It also
required you to remove the HDD and run the recovery from another PC.

Your second question: It could be a process taking much of your CPU
time. If you press CTRL+ALT+DEL click task manager and then select the
process tab. Then click the CPU heading in the colums to arrange it
from high to low. This will show you if any process is playing up.
(outlook for example has several known issues with this).

Regards