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[Guest]

Hi,
Approximately a month ago while working through my excercise book produced
by microsoft Press for the 70-270 Exam it required making a password reset
disk. Although it did not say to use the disk, for my knowledge I decided to
see how it worked, and was rather impressed initially. That is until all my
personal settings were removed, despite it saying in the wizard that that
would not occur, things like my personal home pages from Firefox were
changed, as well as other things, my systems performance plummeted to the
slowest I'd seen it in ages, MSN wouldn't sign in either.
I eventually decided to try a system rollback using System Restore.
Thankfully this worked and I was able to get everything else working. But
while doing this my external HDD remained connected, why should I disconnect
it, all the programs have been on there for ages? However after the restore I
was left with a handfull of the install files that were initially on that
partition, none of the other partitions were touched though. I have done
scans with special programs, for data recovery, and it is all recoverable.
However I would like to know is there a recommendable freeware data recovery
program, or does microsoft have one available for free download?

Thanks,

 

[Galen]

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Hi,
Approximately a month ago while working through my excercise book
produced by microsoft Press for the 70-270 Exam it required making a
password reset disk. Although it did not say to use the disk, for my
knowledge I decided to see how it worked, and was rather impressed
initially. That is until all my personal settings were removed,
despite it saying in the wizard that that would not occur, things
like my personal home pages from Firefox were changed, as well as
other things, my systems performance plummeted to the slowest I'd
seen it in ages, MSN wouldn't sign in either.
I eventually decided to try a system rollback using System Restore.
Thankfully this worked and I was able to get everything else working.
But while doing this my external HDD remained connected, why should I
disconnect it, all the programs have been on there for ages? However
after the restore I was left with a handfull of the install files
that were initially on that partition, none of the other partitions
were touched though. I have done scans with special programs, for
data recovery, and it is all recoverable. However I would like to
know is there a recommendable freeware data recovery program, or does
microsoft have one available for free download?

Thanks,

A few things for you;

Data Recovery Tools:
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html

EFS, Credentials, and Private Keys from Certificates Are Unavailable After a
Password Is Reset:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290260

And, if you're going to go playing with the system settings and mucking
about in the name of education (as good a cause as any - I usually do such
things simply because I want to see what happens) then this link should be
of interest to you and will likely save you many many hours in the future.

Backup! Image/Clone :
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Guest]

Hi
Thanks a lot for that, have read the microsoft one and looking at some of
the freeware stuff, and your backup/image settings.
Regards,