system restore

[Tim]

I just used system restore to see if a corrupted program
was ok a month ago when I first got this new computer.
When the system went back about a month, the corrupted
program was still no good so I tried to undo the restore.
It said it couldn't undo it and so I lost a bunch of
information in my pictures and music files. If I can't
undo the restore does anyone know how to find the lost
pictures and music? The restore page says it doesn't lose
files when you restore but I guess that's not right.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

System Restore doesn't monitor data files. So the picture and music files
should still be where they were.

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Will Denny
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| I just used system restore to see if a corrupted program
| was ok a month ago when I first got this new computer.
| When the system went back about a month, the corrupted
| program was still no good so I tried to undo the restore.
| It said it couldn't undo it and so I lost a bunch of
| information in my pictures and music files. If I can't
| undo the restore does anyone know how to find the lost
| pictures and music? The restore page says it doesn't lose
| files when you restore but I guess that's not right.

 

[Guest]

you've fallen into the trap of not having created
a 'resore point' in the first place so I think there was
nothing for it to restore - am I right? Unless you went
to System Restore and made it do a 'backup' first you
will have wiped whatever you deleted. I suppose you
didn't have any other backup facilities like Norton's
GOBack running?