Desperate help needed please

[michelleschefe]

MY husband did a system recovery while I was sleep the other night and not knowing what he was doing!! I went to undo it but the only day it will let me click on is today. I guess I am okay with losing all my documents and pics BUT my drive C is showing 100% full. I have deleted programs, defraged, diskclean up etc and nothing is working. I am getting the error message about being low and to do a disk clean up but when I do it nothing changes!!!! Its a emachines desktop running XP. Its old but my son uses this one all the time. I have googled this to death all day and nothing is working. How can my drive be full when it wasnt before the recovery. Doesnt a recovery set everything back to factory settings? I sure wish he woulda have done a restore instead lol. PLEASE HELP!!!!!

 

[inzone]

What is in the 5 different backup folders? What is in the bundle folder ? Those two things are not part of a nomal windows install and they could be part of the recovery.

 

[michelleschefe]

Everything on the hdd is in that list to the left and you have to go through all the folders to see what is there and if there is a duplicate windows folder or recovery folder or something that would would refer to the recovery that was done. I have not come accross this situation before so I'm not exactly sure what happened to the windows install that was there before and I'm thinking that all the files were put in a folder and put somewhere , the recovery operation would not have deletede everything it would have saved it so you will have to look for it.

Okay, I am looking through all the files now. When I did that itunes search and those files came up, do I delete them or can I bring them back, or do I just leave it alone. I am going to look all through these things now and see if I can find something. Let ya know shortly. TY again!!!

 

[inzone]

You also have to look at the other things below my computer , there should only be my network places and recycle bin.

 

[inzone]

I would not delete the itunes.

 

[michelleschefe]

What is in the 5 different backup folders? What is in the bundle folder ? Those two things are not part of a nomal windows install and they could be part of the recovery.

In one of the backups theres soething called move_recovery but its only 1kb. I have no clue what is up with all the backups lol

IN the bundle the two folders r support and valueadd. Theres a bunch of sub folders under the word though but no clue what any of it means. MSFT,FONTS,MGMT,CIMV2R5,MSTSC_HPC,WBEMODBC,NET,NETBEUI,TOOLS,NTBACKUP,USMT, AND ANSI

 

[michelleschefe]

You also have to look at the other things below my computer , there should only be my network places and recycle bin.[/quotemsg
Yes, all that is below my computer is network places and recycle bin

 

[michelleschefe]

I found a fle in the temp called {9F5FBC24-EFE2-4f90-98-ECOFB7D47D15}

 

[inzone]

Then the files must be hidden and the folders you have are the links to them. But now you know that your important data is not deleted and by doing the search you can find them and even transfer them to your laptop by either burn to cd or usb stick and after they are copied to the laptop you can delete them and eventually free up some space. Meanwhils continue to look for the original windows , maybe you can search for that and you can even go into windows help and restore to see if there is something there to help you. I know you said you can't restore but windows help does have a lot of info to help with a lot of different circumstances.

 

[inzone]

The move_recovery might be a link to where the old windows install is located , I know it's only one kb but thats all it needs to be if it is a link.

 

[michelleschefe]

Then the files must be hidden and the folders you have are the links to them. But now you know that your important data is not deleted and by doing the search you can find them and even transfer them to your laptop by either burn to cd or usb stick and after they are copied to the laptop you can delete them and eventually free up some space. Meanwhils continue to look for the original windows , maybe you can search for that and you can even go into windows help and restore to see if there is something there to help you. I know you said you can't restore but windows help does have a lot of info to help with a lot of different circumstances.

Okay I just looked through the box I got with this in the basement and I did find a cd. Its caled system recovey cd/dvd. Is that something?

 

[michelleschefe]

Under tools in the bundle folder is SUPTOOLS windows installer package 215KB, anything?

 

[michelleschefe]

It looks like all the my backup folders have the same identical things in them

 

[inzone]

Okay I just looked through the box I got with this in the basement and I did find a cd. Its caled system recovey cd/dvd. Is that something?

That sounds like your Windows cd/dvd and you can try putting that in and running it , hopefully it will come up with the option to save your personal files and folders.

 

[michelleschefe]

The move_recovery might be a link to where the old windows install is located , I know it's only one kb but thats all it needs to be if it is a link.

IN one of the back ups theres a system recovery folder and in it is app;ication and driver recovery, create my drivers applications cds shortcut, and system recovery shortcut 2kb. Actually they all say shortcut lol

 

[inzone]

Before running that disk you should try to see if you can find any more personal items like pictures and music and save them to a disk or usb stick so you don't lose them.

 

[michelleschefe]

That sounds like your Windows cd/dvd and you can try putting that in and running it , hopefully it will come up with the option to save your personal files and folders.

ON the CD it says mocrosoft windows XP home edition system recovery cd/dvd. Then it says to use this disc to reinstall your operating system. Warning, the recovery prcess erases all data and files from the hard drive,

Isnt that what he did though just without the disk?

 

[inzone]

IN one of the back ups theres a system recovery folder and in it is app;ication and driver recovery, create my drivers applications cds shortcut, and system recovery shortcut 2kb. Actually they all say shortcut lol

A shortcut is a link to something , a file , folder or application.

 

[inzone]

ON the CD it says mocrosoft windows XP home edition system recovery cd/dvd. Then it says to use this disc to reinstall your operating system. Warning, the recovery prcess erases all data and files from the hard drive,

Isnt that what he did though just without the disk?

Well , it seems like the recovery that was done didn't erase anything , it just put it somewhere , the disk will erase everythingg and start over. So the best thing to do right now is find everything you can to save and then run the disk and you will then have a new install with 95% of the hdd free.

 

[michelleschefe]

ok ty for all your time and help!!!! I truly appreciate it!!

 

[inzone]

Your welcome !