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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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First step, backup everything you can.
Second step, stick a "recovery disk" in floppy drive. Fdisk the hard drive into two partitions. Partition 1 will be "C" drive, partition 2 will be "D" drive. Always save your data on the "D" drive, this way when you have problems you can simply format the "C" drive and start over again, with your data saved.
Also, once a week (or sooner) save your data on a CD or other format. I use another computer and do a mirror image on a second computer. Chances are very low that both will not die at once.
Third step, install Windows 2000 on the computer. Your problems will be a lot fewer from there on out.
That said, Norton used to have some utilities that would find files that were deleted. I used it several times with some success. Problem is that you do not have it installed on the computer now you would have to install it, and doing so could overwrite the files you want to recover, making it impossible.
Sorry I cannot help more but XP is a POS OS from my viewpoint. Its so full of security holes that we refuse to use it until MS fixes it.
JoeA
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Last edited by Joeaksa; 05-29-2005 at 03:02 PM..
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