Solve : All my files are gone.?

1.	Solve : All my files are gone.?
Answer» I have an XP version 2002. It's a Compaq with 2.00 GHz and 192 MB of RAM. It was really screwed up so I did a system recovery to set it back to factory settings. I've done it before and it never has deleted my files and it's not supposed to, but this time it did. My guess is it was a virus. I lost all my music, essays, pictures, and videos. Luckily I had most of it backed up on an external HARD drive but all the pictures and essays I will never see again. Now I have almost nothing on my computer but still I get error messages saying I don't have enough memory to continue on something. I'm convinced my stuff is still on here somewhere, I'd just like to know how I could maybe find it or if it's better to just wipe the hard drive clean. I have a capacity of 32.59 GB on my C drive and only 1.91 GB left. On my D drive I have a capacity of 4.66 GB and 712 MB left. Again, I have close to nothing saved on my computer so it must be all my hidden stuff taking up the memory,Can you see the missing files if you open the drives with file explorer or my computer and look around at folders and files?"I did a system recovery to set it back to factory settings" = all data, and installed programs are lost Normal. Try using http://www.ccleaner.com/ to clear so space, maybe deleting applications you definatly do not want in Add / Remove Programs. Disk Clean-up. Quote from: mayaddw on November 13, 2008, 01:43:32 PM I did a system recovery to set it back to factory settings. I've done it before and it never has deleted my files and it's not supposed to, but this time it did. I have a capacity of 32.59 GB on my C drive and only 1.91 GB left. On my D drive I have a capacity of 4.66 GB and 712 MB left. Again, I have close to nothing saved on my computer so it must be all my hidden stuff taking up the memory, Are you talking about System Restore? If you did a clean istall, then your hard drive should have way more free space than that. How did you do this "system recovery"? Did you use your Windows disk or recovery partition on you hard drive? Do you mean that you used the Recovey Console on your XP disk? The fact that your hard drives are nearly full would suggest that your data is still there. Please let US know how you went about the "recovery". Quote Can you see the missing files if you open the drives with file explorer or my computer and look around at folders and files? No, I can't. Quote "I did a system recovery to set it back to factory settings" = all data, and installed programs are lost Normal. No, it's not normal because it SAID before I did it that none of my files would be deleted and they were. And I've done it before where no data files were deleted. Quote Are you talking about System Restore? If you did a clean istall, then your hard drive should have way more free space than that. How did you do this "system recovery"? Did you use your Windows disk or recovery partition on you hard drive? Do you mean that you used the Recovey Console on your XP disk? The fact that your hard drives are nearly full would suggest that your data is still there. Please let us know how you went about the "recovery". I used whatever was on my computer. No disks were required, it was an option on my computer. It's not like system restore where you can set it back to any previous date, it just sets it back to factory settings but is not supposed to delete your files.

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I have an XP version 2002. It's a Compaq with 2.00 GHz and 192 MB of RAM. It was really screwed up so I did a system recovery to set it back to factory settings. I've done it before and it never has deleted my files and it's not supposed to, but this time it did. My guess is it was a virus. I lost all my music, essays, pictures, and videos. Luckily I had most of it backed up on an external HARD drive but all the pictures and essays I will never see again. Now I have almost nothing on my computer but still I get error messages saying I don't have enough memory to continue on something. I'm convinced my stuff is still on here somewhere, I'd just like to know how I could maybe find it or if it's better to just wipe the hard drive clean.

I have a capacity of 32.59 GB on my C drive and only 1.91 GB left. On my D drive I have a capacity of 4.66 GB and 712 MB left. Again, I have close to nothing saved on my computer so it must be all my hidden stuff taking up the memory,Can you see the missing files if you open the drives with file explorer or my computer and look around at folders and files?"I did a system recovery to set it back to factory settings" = all data, and installed programs are lost
Normal.
Try using http://www.ccleaner.com/ to clear so space, maybe deleting applications you definatly do not want in Add / Remove Programs. Disk Clean-up. Quote from: mayaddw on November 13, 2008, 01:43:32 PM

I did a system recovery to set it back to factory settings. I've done it before and it never has deleted my files and it's not supposed to, but this time it did.

I have a capacity of 32.59 GB on my C drive and only 1.91 GB left. On my D drive I have a capacity of 4.66 GB and 712 MB left. Again, I have close to nothing saved on my computer so it must be all my hidden stuff taking up the memory,

Are you talking about System Restore? If you did a clean istall, then your hard drive should have way more free space than that.
How did you do this "system recovery"? Did you use your Windows disk or recovery partition on you hard drive? Do you mean that you used the Recovey Console on your XP disk? The fact that your hard drives are nearly full would suggest that your data is still there. Please let US know how you went about the "recovery". Quote

Can you see the missing files if you open the drives with file explorer or my computer and look around at folders and files?

No, I can't. Quote

"I did a system recovery to set it back to factory settings" = all data, and installed programs are lost
Normal.

No, it's not normal because it SAID before I did it that none of my files would be deleted and they were. And I've done it before where no data files were deleted. Quote

Are you talking about System Restore? If you did a clean istall, then your hard drive should have way more free space than that.
How did you do this "system recovery"? Did you use your Windows disk or recovery partition on you hard drive? Do you mean that you used the Recovey Console on your XP disk? The fact that your hard drives are nearly full would suggest that your data is still there. Please let us know how you went about the "recovery".

I used whatever was on my computer. No disks were required, it was an option on my computer. It's not like system restore where you can set it back to any previous date, it just sets it back to factory settings but is not supposed to delete your files.

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