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[Dempsey]

my computer restored itself... and now I lost everything.. tried to restore
to an earlier time.. but no luck....... any suggestions on how to retreive
all my files

 

[CBoom]

my computer restored itself

You mean by using the WINDOWS SYSTEM RESTORE or something else????

if its just system restore then undo the restoration...

normally system restore doesn’t touch your personal files!

so what you are saying is strange..

clarify what you mean

 

[Leonard Grey]

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[Jim]

my computer restored itself... and now I lost everything.. tried to restore
to an earlier time.. but no luck....... any suggestions on how to retreive
all my files

It cannot restore itself , a button has to be pressed .

 

[Bob Lucas]

Ron

You are either the proud inventor of the Time Machine - or your date and
time settings are wrong.

 

[Ron Badour]

As the others have pointed out, your post does not contain enough
information so that a specific response can be made. If somehow the drive
was formatted and the system reinstalled, then you need to quit using the PC
immediately to avoid overwriting the missing data. Even though a format may
have occurred, that will not stop you from retrieving some or all of the
missing data using special retrieval software such as Data Recovery Wizard
Pro. Once the data has been overwritten, it is virtually impossible to
retrieve unless you have BIG bucks to pay a company that specializes in
retrieval. You would need to slave up your drive in a different PC, install
the retrieval software to that PC and then run it so it searches your drive.
You would retrieve the data to the host PC's drive and once the operation is
complete, you would then transfer the data to your hard drive.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience