my hard drive..
|
Author |
Message |
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 7
Egg Points: 32
Posts: 1436
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 4:16 p.m. - Subject: my hard drive.. |
| |
ok, i accidently wiped my hard drive, so is there any way i can fully recover it? When i restored the system i got a few programs and files back, but not all of em.
|
Power Egg
Member Lvl: 12
Egg Points: 4563
Posts: 1067
YIM
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 4:39 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
so did you actually reformat it or did you do something else?
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 9
Egg Points: 6128
Posts: 1059
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 4:56 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
well your pretty much screwed. I Tell Ya What
|
Master Egg
Member Lvl: 39
Egg Points: 676627
Posts: 2491
BLOCKED, EXPIRES Dec 25, 2008
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 5:00 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
how did you "Accidentally" wipe it out?
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 7
Egg Points: 32
Posts: 1436
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 5:16 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
UM, I deleted a driver, which started a snowball effect leading to all my sound drivers, software drivers for my phone, and the drivers that make my moniter work go bye bye...seeing as i dont know computers all that well, i went to system restore and restored the system, not realizing i could just roll back my drivers...so now that my computer is restored, i lost ALL my music...It diddnt kill everything...Firefox and several other programs i have dont come with XP...Why did it delete some files, but not others? and is there any way i can restore it back to the way it was before i wiped it?
|
Master Egg
Member Lvl: 34
Egg Points: 590687
Posts: 2333
YIM
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 5:30 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
That sucks ass dude. Backup external harddrive FTW. Remember that I suppose for next time....
|
Power Egg
Member Lvl: 12
Egg Points: 4563
Posts: 1067
YIM
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 5:42 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
well if you just used windows restore you probably didn’t loose all your stuff.
if you used windows restore it just goes retarted and fcuks up a lot of different things. try going to my computer and looking around on the c drive for your stuff. most of your programs should be in the "c:\\program files" folder. your music is prolly still there too, that is if you used the system restore in windows.
if you used a factory system restore, like something you did before windows even loaded (ex: ’Press F3 for System Restore"), your stuff is prolly gone, hopefully you did the 1st one.
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 8
Egg Points: 1047
Posts: 1312
AIM
BLOCKED, EXPIRES Oct 24, 2008
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 5:52 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
Yep.... your fucked.
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 7
Egg Points: 32
Posts: 1436
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 6:45 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
Shit...
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 9
Egg Points: 29689
Posts: 2567
AIM YIM
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 6:57 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
I’m going to assume these files were on your desktop? Or in folders in your desktop? Run a search for one of the files using explorer’s built-in search.
|
Master Egg
Member Lvl: 39
Egg Points: 676627
Posts: 2491
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 6:58 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
no one word posts!
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 7
Egg Points: 32
Posts: 1436
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 7:02 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
Its not just some of the files, its most of the files on my whole computer...All my music files were in C:Documents and settings/owner/Shared now that whole breanch (other then docs and settings) no longer exists.
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 7
Egg Points: 32
Posts: 1436
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 7:04 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
Branch* Some of the files (I stand corrected) werent deleted. For example, Rhapsody and Itunes werent deleted, but just uninstalled.
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 9
Egg Points: 29689
Posts: 2567
AIM YIM
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 7:04 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
Well try the search, I don’t know much about SR, but it sounds like it may have messed with folder names. Look into undelete utilities (like Undelete), and give them a try.
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 8
Egg Points: 188
Posts: 1185
AIM
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 7:06 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
I think theres programs that can check the history of everything that was ever on your computer
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 8
Egg Points: 1047
Posts: 1312
AIM
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 7:07 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
Wait in order to fix the problem you must first tell us how you wiped your hard drive.
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 7
Egg Points: 32
Posts: 1436
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 7:07 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
Ill try the search and see what it comes up with. The only good thing (so far) is my computer is running alot faster now that its got alot more free memory.
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 7
Egg Points: 32
Posts: 1436
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 7:28 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
Search came up blank
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 8
Egg Points: 1047
Posts: 1312
AIM
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 7:30 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
Once more... In order to fix the problem you must first tell us how you wiped your hard drive.
|
Normal Egg
Member Lvl: 7
Egg Points: 32
Posts: 1436
|
| Posted: May 20, 2008 7:45 p.m. - Subject: |
| |
I did...system restore=Most of hard drive wiped. It wasnt from a virus or anything.
|
|
|
