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I've got a mess on my hands. I was trying to uninstall an HP printer and I
must have answered something wrong because when I noticed that all of my
shortcuts on my desktop were gone I decided to reboot. When I did, a
message appeared to press R to recover or anything else to ... I can't
remember what it said. I pressed anything else and I had nothing. So I
rebooted again and pressed R, put in my recover disk, told it to do a
non-destructive restore. I lost everything. My documents is completely
empty, I can't reinstall Microsoft Office, parts of Windows is missing.
I'm assuming I'm going to have to totally rebuild which I have never done.
I've been lucky for 20 years. I have a backup of my documents but not my
Outlook Inbox and Contacts. I took it to Best Buy and they did diagnostics
on it and they only found 15% of my disk but no documents or Outlook info.
I had Windows XP Home edition and Office 2002 and lots of cool programs that
I'm going to have to remember that I downloaded.
I was in the process of making sure everything was up-to-date in order to
install SP2. I had bought an external drive and Ghost software in order to
backup everything in case something went wrong but it went wrong too soon.
Do you think I can take this to someone and they can find my files?
In the meantime, I'm using one of my old PCs. Someone please tell me that I
can get my Outlook stuff back.
Sitting here hoping,
Debbie
I've got a mess on my hands. I was trying to uninstall an HP printer and I
must have answered something wrong because when I noticed that all of my
shortcuts on my desktop were gone I decided to reboot. When I did, a
message appeared to press R to recover or anything else to ... I can't
remember what it said. I pressed anything else and I had nothing. So I
rebooted again and pressed R, put in my recover disk, told it to do a
non-destructive restore. I lost everything. My documents is completely
empty, I can't reinstall Microsoft Office, parts of Windows is missing.
I'm assuming I'm going to have to totally rebuild which I have never done.
I've been lucky for 20 years. I have a backup of my documents but not my
Outlook Inbox and Contacts. I took it to Best Buy and they did diagnostics
on it and they only found 15% of my disk but no documents or Outlook info.
I had Windows XP Home edition and Office 2002 and lots of cool programs that
I'm going to have to remember that I downloaded.
I was in the process of making sure everything was up-to-date in order to
install SP2. I had bought an external drive and Ghost software in order to
backup everything in case something went wrong but it went wrong too soon.
Do you think I can take this to someone and they can find my files?
In the meantime, I'm using one of my old PCs. Someone please tell me that I
can get my Outlook stuff back.
Sitting here hoping,
Debbie