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[iceman]

IS THERE A COMPUTER WHIZZ OUT THERE. I STUPIDLY WENT INTO SYSTEM RESTORE AND RESTORED MY COMPUTER TO FACTORY DEFAULT. I LOST EVERYTHING

THERE MUST BE A WAY TO GO INTO THE SYSTEM AND RETRIEVE. THE POLICE DO IT ..... EVEN WHEN HARD DISKS HAVE BEEN ERASED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ANY-ONE PLEASE

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[Get Real!]

Sylvia, I'm not sure if what you did is a "system restore" or a "system recovery". If your windows has gone back to factory windows, in other words the way it looked when you first bought the computer, then chances are you've done the latter which is EXTREMELY difficult if not impossible to go back because a "recovery" deletes the HDD partitions and re-creates them to place the factory default windows image. Undeleting partitions is a very difficult and technical process that requires sophisticated technical software.

There are two ways to determine if you did a system recovery... 1. If you inserted a system recovery CD which booted up and did the process or 2. If you pressed [F10] or [F8] (I can't remember which right now) upon boot-up which fired up the recovery process which resides in ROM on the motherboard.

Regards, GR.

[sylvia]

to get real

Yep I did an F10

[Get Real!]

to get real

Yep I did an F10

Do you recall if when you pressed [F10] it came up with a menu which also offered to "undo a previous..." or did it just fire away and replace everything?

If you don't recall such an option then your only hope is to take it to an EXPERT systems engineer who might be able to "undo" the partition formatting/changing. Give preference to a support center that SUPPORTS YOUR BRAND because only "brand-name" computers/laptops have the [F10] built-in recovery feature. ie: If it's a Toshiba laptop then you MUST go to a Toshiba accredited company etc.

Good luck.

[sylvia]

Yes it just fired away aftr pressing F10. What I should have done was toignore the acer manual and gone for system and asked it to go back to a day before. But I didnt know and I though the acer manual could tell me why my sound card had suddenly disappeared. It just said system restore back to previous.......which I took to mean driver. It just went off on its own. I couldnt believe it when it rebooted with nothing but the basics.

[lev]

sylvia do what devil said. Do not press keys it doesn't help you. Recovery of data is a complicated (and boring) process and also a pretty expensive service. If you will try to do something yourself it just increases a price and reduces a possibility of recovery.

[sylvia]

Thanks to all in the forum. I have resigned myself to never getting my docs back. I could get my music downloads back if I could get kazza to download but it b........y well wont. I got loads of good greek stuff thats been lost......then birazi.

[beverley10]

you could phone your server hotline and they might talk you through it but last posting sounded pretty knowledgeable with his instructions so do what he says first.good luck.

[Get Real!]

Thanks to all in the forum. I have resigned myself to never getting my docs back. I could get my music downloads back if I could get kazza to download but it b........y well wont. I got loads of good greek stuff thats been lost......then birazi.

Yikes Kazza!!

What can I say Sylvia... you're the classic system abuser!

I'll bet your system before the recovery was running like a snail with crutches!

[sylvia]

Hi beverly10.

I've done all that. It seems the bottom line is that It can be done, so a couple of companies say, BUT it will cost me about 150-200 pounds. I'll be in cyprus for easter so I'll bring my laptop with me and see if I can get it done any cheaper. Failing that, I'll just have to re-write all my stories. Good job I got a good memory and have got first edits to copy from. I've aleady got carpel tunnel so if I have to re-write everything, well pieces of me will start dropping off....hahahahah