37 replies to this topic

[mighty mini jack]

Guessing so but im not sure what of.

[ianpettifer]

hm thats not good!

have u tried system restore?

could go back to a recent date where you know you had the photos.

just an idea tho

[daemonchild]

A system restore will reset to factory - which is WAY before he had the photos! lol.
Don't do that yet.
Pop around to a local (not PCworld) PC shop and get them to have a look.
If you were in Reading or local I'd take a look for you.

[mighty mini jack]

Ok mate cheers, really confuses me when it does things like this.

[ianpettifer]

:S

System Restore is a Windows utility that allows a user to restore their computer data to a specific former state.

never mind

[mighty mini jack]

Well im up for anything!

So system restore or not?

[Mutley_RIP]

yep roll it back to the nearest date in bold when the computer was workin correctly

[mighty mini jack]

Theres no dates on here, just says 'Disk space usage' and a slider?

All this stuff just confuses me

[ianpettifer]

lol there are guides and wizards online just do a search on google mate.

Good luck!!

[sweetser]

Kick it really hard

[mighty mini jack]

Kick it really hard

I did punch it, didn't do anything

Maybe a bit of fire will help

[Mutley_RIP]

Theres no dates on here, just says 'Disk space usage' and a slider?

All this stuff just confuses me

To do a system restore

Start> all progs> accessories>system tools> system restore

Assuming you are using xp

[mighty mini jack]

Theres no dates on here, just says 'Disk space usage' and a slider?

All this stuff just confuses me

To do a system restore

Start> all progs> accessories>system tools> system restore

Assuming you are using xp

Got it, seems i need atleast 200 MB Free, that ain't gonna happen me thinks?

[Mutley_RIP]

Be like Nike and just do it

[SolarB]

They were stored in 'My Pictures' mate, just looked and there's nothing.

A tip for the future. When you get your system running and your pictures back do the following.

Create a partition on your drive. This is simply dividing a single hard drive into sections (C: and D: for example).
Then store all your photos, data & documents on this new drive (D:) and not in My Documents, My Pictures etc. on C:

If you have a serious problem in the future you can re-format C: where XP lives and re-install it. You files on D: will be safe during this operation and, if the worst comes to the worst you can remove the hard drive from your machine, plug it into another PC and copy all your files.

At the moment all your files are tied up with the XP installation on the C: drive. A re-installation of XP is tricky if you want to keep your files and, more importantly, the data is encrypted. This means that in an emergency you can't plug your drive into another PC and read or save your files.

Good luck with getting them back, 9 times out of 10 it's a simple thing that's happened, you don't loose any data and you don't have to re-install.

Edited by SolarB, 13 May 2009 - 03:53 PM.