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Question

accidently ran recovery

Aug 29, 2011 5:44AM PDT

My wife accidentally rebooted using the recovery mode f10. Is there anyway I can get back to my original boot. At present there are no restore points. My data is still on HDD cannot run from present boot. All the programs now revert back to the trial modes.

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Clarification Request
WAG, here
Aug 29, 2011 6:11AM PDT

You provided no details of your PC in question. If you did a recovery mode, then I would assume that it wiped out the current old setup and reloaded the OS again. What I *assume* is you're referring to the "old data/old windows install" was saved during the restore process. You can access that data, but not the programs, or basically not run from it, etc.. And YES, you would have no restore points because it was reloaded fresh as in day 1 of having the PC. Unless, this is all different, please state so. As, I'm working from guess mode.

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Re: accident
Aug 29, 2011 5:50AM PDT

How do you mean "running data"?
If the data is still there, you're lucky. Usually, after such a recovery, it's gone also and all you have is your backup (if you made one!).

Anyway, you can't go back. You're back at where you was when you bought the machine. So you need to go forward again by re-installing all programs and all settings you did between then and now (that is, yesterday).

Kees