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Win XP Documents and Settings folder - missing from C:\ completely

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by deadwomble, 2008/02/14.

  1. 2008/02/14
    deadwomble

    deadwomble Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    I've read a fair few problems regarding the loss and recovery of folders on XP but none of them sort my problem out.

    Win XP is not booting, a blue error screen comes up, and it won't boot.

    The only thing I want off the hardisk is the 'My Pictures' folder, but the 'Documents and Settings' folder has gone...

    Tried Knoppix - no joy. Umbuntu, no joy - DSL and also a 2.5" harddisk converter to read it on another system - no joy.

    I'm guessing that C:\ is corrupted right where my files are - is there any way to get them back?

    If you have any idea's, would be glad to hear them!!

    Thanks-

    deadwomble
     
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  2. 2008/02/15
    Arie

    Arie Administrator Administrator Staff

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    I think you took it as far as you could. Just to make sure: Knoppix & Ubuntu had drivers to read NTFS drives right??

    Again, not knowing the OS, you have to make sure it's an OS capable of reading NTFS.

    If you did have the capability to read from an NTFS file system, I think you took it as far as you could. Next step would be a professional data recovery firm, but that would be expensive.

    Seems like another user got to learn the importance of a proper backup strategy the hard way.
     
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  4. 2008/02/15
    TonyT

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    You could now try TestDisk, a free image data and image recovery solution:
    http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
    You could boot from a linux cd and run testdisk from a usb drive or copy from usb drive to desktop.
     
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  5. 2008/02/15
    deadwomble

    deadwomble Inactive Thread Starter

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    Thanks Arie and TonyT- its a FAT32 system, but i'm not sure that makes any difference - I will try the testdisk, and will reply with results- will look into back ups when its all up and running again!

    Thanks again

    womble
     
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