Windows XP recovery

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I am used to working with windows 2000. I was trying to rid my roomate's
computer of a few unneeded programs when i accidentally his sytem restore
instead of safe mode. Is there any way possible to restore his important
Microsoft word documents that were on his desktop?
 
Sheena said:
I am used to working with windows 2000. I was trying to rid my
roomate's computer of a few unneeded programs when i accidentally his
sytem restore instead of safe mode. Is there any way possible to
restore his important Microsoft word documents that were on his
desktop?
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You can undo the last System Restore from the System Restore program.
Try doing that.

Malke
 
Hi Malke,

thank you but i have morequestions. XP did not ask me if i wanted to do a
destroctive or other recovery. The disk space is dramaticall y lower. I think
it might have actually deleted files. How do i undo the last recovery. DO i
have to go into recovery mode again? F10?
 
Sheena said:
Hi Malke,

thank you but i have morequestions. XP did not ask me if i wanted to do a
destroctive or other recovery. The disk space is dramaticall y lower. I think
it might have actually deleted files. How do i undo the last recovery. DO i
have to go into recovery mode again? F10?
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It sounds like what you did was to run the manufacturer's "System
Recovery" which basically wiped out the hard drive and installed a
fresh new copy of Windows XP exactly as it was when it left the
factory.

If that is what happened then the problem requires "hands on"
attention from a data recovery specialist who might repeat might be
able to recover the missing files or at least some substantial
portions of them. But it will be expensive.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm
 
Malke, it would be wise for you to immediately stop booting into the
affected drive. (Windows swap-disk activity alone can wipe out your
data.) Instead, hook it up to another computer as a second drive then
use data recovery software to mine out the lost files. (You may not
need a data recovery expert becuase their is no physical drive damage.)
Here are some freeware data recovery tools to get you started:

http://free-backup.info/data-recovery-software.htm
 
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