System Restore question...

[Angela]

Ok. Here is what happened first of all:

I was doing a defrag on my comp.. it was at 37%, I decided to see if this
Sonic RecordNow! was the program I needed to use to burn a DVD, so I clicked
it to open it and a blue screen with a bunch of white words on it popped up
and then shut my computer down. I turned it back on.. it got to the screen
where I enter my password.. I entered it. It then acted as if it was going to
load windows and I seen my desktop background image but then it would go
right back to the password screen.. and no matter how many times I entered my
password it would keep doing that. I left my computer off for awhile and
tried later, stll the same thing. I didn't know what else to do and since I
couldn't even get to windows to ask for help, I restored to factor settings,
but not a destructive one. So it says my data files should be here still. So
I finally get it all set back up and logged into windows and obviously I have
to redownload every program I downloaded.. but when I went into like "My
Pictures" folder.. I see NONE of my pictures.

I do a "Search" and all my pictures, movies, music are still on my
computer... but not where they say they are... Am I missing something? How do
I get all these files back to where they are supposed to be and not have to
"Search" to be able to open them????

Thanks

 

[RJK]

First off, you shouldn't have been running any application programs whilst
defragging the hard-disk, other than the hard disk defragmentation program
itself, that is just asking for trouble.

Secondly, you should "Check the Disk for errors" prior to defragging it.

....anyhow, you say that you have "factory reset" the machine, and your
"photos" are still on the hard disk i.e. you can "find" them.
This sounds as though an application program had previously been assisting
you in the storage and management of your "photos." You might like to
reinstall
that application program, though if that program was "indexing" them in some
way - that program may fail to present them to you in the way that you were
used to handling them.

You might like to read :-
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/Figuring-Out-Windows-Files-and-Folders.id-3448.html

regards, Richard

 

[Andrew E.]

If youre pictures are not in "my documents" then where did they end up at...
Either way,one might go to my computer,search,enable all files,protected
also,type:jpg Or whatever data youre looking for,if results are the
files,go to
edit,select all,move files to area you'd like them to be.

 

[Alias ;-)]

Ok. Here is what happened first of all:

I was doing a defrag on my comp.. it was at 37%, I decided to see if this
Sonic RecordNow! was the program I needed to use to burn a DVD, so I clicked
it to open it and a blue screen with a bunch of white words on it popped up
and then shut my computer down. I turned it back on.. it got to the screen
where I enter my password.. I entered it. It then acted as if it was going to
load windows and I seen my desktop background image but then it would go
right back to the password screen.. and no matter how many times I entered my
password it would keep doing that. I left my computer off for awhile and
tried later, stll the same thing. I didn't know what else to do and since I
couldn't even get to windows to ask for help, I restored to factor settings,
but not a destructive one. So it says my data files should be here still. So
I finally get it all set back up and logged into windows and obviously I have
to redownload every program I downloaded.. but when I went into like "My
Pictures" folder.. I see NONE of my pictures.

I do a "Search" and all my pictures, movies, music are still on my
computer... but not where they say they are... Am I missing something? How do
I get all these files back to where they are supposed to be and not have to
"Search" to be able to open them????

Thanks

This should teach you that back up is a computer user's best friend.
You're lucky you have any photos at all. Invest in an external hard
drive and back up your data while you still can.

Alias