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help! i lost my data on system restore

Jul 26, 2010 11:49AM PDT

Is there a method to recover my hard drive after system restore without expensive software?

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Try...
Jul 26, 2010 12:13PM PDT

...undoing the restore ? But what data have you lost ? "System Restore" is supposed to deal with system files [including programs installation]only... "Data" files are not supposed to be afftected. Please tell more.

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actually system 'system recovery'
Jul 26, 2010 12:46PM PDT

it was a system recovery vs restore, used the toshiba recovery disks. lost the hard drive i think, cuz it is at 10% now
any way to recall the data?

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In that case, no.
Jul 26, 2010 7:32PM PDT

Let's be clear here.

System Restore: A utility from within Windows. When you install software, or when Windows is updated, a System Restore point is created. If there are problems with the install of the software/updates, then you can return Windows to the state it was before the installation/update.

System Recovery: This is usually a destructive re-installation of Windows. Everything is wiped clean and you start again with Windows as if it was new. No data is saved in the process and so we rely on our backups to help us protect the files we cannot afford to lose.

So which did you do, and tell us more please. If you did a system recovery everything is gone. If you have no backups then your only option is to stop using that system immediately and take the disk to a commercial data recovery business who will attempt to recover your lost data. But nothing is guaranteed and the cost is likely to be high.

If you continue using that disk more and more of your file remnants will be over-written.

Mark

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Well...
Jul 26, 2010 11:27PM PDT

... there may be a slim chance...a very slim chance, that some data may be recovered. That has to be done by data recovery services for which may be costly. However, I would not place much hope on it...