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Deleted My Documents! by Chris4 on 02-18-2006 at 09:54 PM
I stupidly ran a program called WinsockXPFix, selected "registry backup" and then selected My Documents for the registry file to be saved to. What I was suppost to do was include the file it it like so...
C:\Documents and Settings\Chris L\Documents\file.reg
But I just put...
C:\Documents and Settings\Chris L\Documents\
Note: I renamed 'My Documents' to 'Documents'
So it overwrited all my files in My Documents!
I tried system restore but forgot that it doesn't do anything with personal files!
Is there any way I can get all my pictures, music, and hard work back!? 
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Voldemort on 02-18-2006 at 09:57 PM
quote:he cant because it was replaced by the backup tool
Originally posted by mwe99
C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\My Documents
RE: Deleted My Documents! by mwe99 on 02-18-2006 at 10:00 PM
duh sorry lol i feel stupid 
How about searching for something you had in in My Documents using Start > Find and see what it brings up
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Rik on 02-18-2006 at 10:18 PM
quote:system restore got me back a folder so it could work
Originally posted by Chris4
I tried system restore but forgot that it doesn't do anything with personal files!
Is there any way I can get all my pictures, music, and hard work back!?
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Voldemort on 02-18-2006 at 10:19 PM
But he tried already, so its useless
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Zephyr on 02-18-2006 at 10:21 PM
Not sure if it will work, but it may be worth a try:
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
Btw, is your connection fixed? Rather than running that WinsockXPFix thing, try the command i posted in your thread.
RE:Broadband Problem
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Chris4 on 02-18-2006 at 10:42 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Zephyr
Not sure if it will work, but it may be worth a try:
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
I'll give it a try, thanks.
quote:I tried it, didn't do anything. I posted on an NTL website and it seems I have to call out an engineer! Thanks anyway.
Originally posted by Zephyr
Btw, is your connection fixed? Rather than running that WinsockXPFix thing, try the command i posted in your thread.
RE:Broadband Problem
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Zephyr on 02-18-2006 at 10:46 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Chris4
I'll give it a try, thanks.
You may want to look for reviews of that program on the internet, because i just got it from searching. But from what i saw it looked quite good.
RE: Deleted My Documents! by MaRy! on 02-18-2006 at 10:55 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Zephyr
Not sure if it will work, but it may be worth a try:
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
Thanks, I need it too
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Hank on 02-18-2006 at 10:59 PM
Have you tried doing a System Repair? not a system restore
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Joe on 02-18-2006 at 11:07 PM
Not sure if it'll work or if it's the same thing as what was previously posted... but Restoration can do what you asked for... unless it's too late.
RE: RE: Deleted My Documents! by Chris4 on 02-18-2006 at 11:21 PM
quote:No? How do I do that?
Originally posted by Animal
Have you tried doing a System Repair? not a system restore
quote:Thanks, I'll try that aswell.
Originally posted by joe cool
Not sure if it'll work or if it's the same thing as what was previously posted... but Restoration can do what you asked for... unless it's too late.
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Hank on 02-18-2006 at 11:36 PM
How. insert the XP CD into drive an reboot an boot from CD an let it pretend youur reinstalling windows, ( when you arent, but then choose i think its called Select R For Repair that may work
RE: Deleted My Documents! by ShawnZ on 02-19-2006 at 01:37 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Animal
How. insert the XP CD into drive an reboot an boot from CD an let it pretend youur reinstalling windows, ( when you arent, but then choose i think its called Select R For Repair that may work
you mean "Press R to open the Recovery Console"?
RE: RE: Deleted My Documents! by Hank on 02-19-2006 at 01:43 AM
quote:Same thing Select or Press, an yes that is what i mean Recovery Console, it may work but then again it maynot, but worth a try
Originally posted by ShawnZ
quote:
Originally posted by Animal
How. insert the XP CD into drive an reboot an boot from CD an let it pretend youur reinstalling windows, ( when you arent, but then choose i think its called Select R For Repair that may work
you mean "Press R to open the Recovery Console"?
RE: Deleted My Documents! by matty on 02-19-2006 at 02:00 AM
No you dont want to run the recovery console or even repair Windows. It will only make things worse.
RE: Deleted My Documents! by ShawnZ on 02-19-2006 at 02:19 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Animal
Same thing Select or Press, an yes that is what i mean Recovery Console, it may work but then again it maynot, but worth a try
the recovery console is just DOS limited to about three commands
RE: RE: Deleted My Documents! by Hank on 02-19-2006 at 02:48 AM
quote:i knew that, but using the recovery Console does work ok sometimes,
Originally posted by ShawnZ
quote:
Originally posted by Animal
Same thing Select or Press, an yes that is what i mean Recovery Console, it may work but then again it maynot, but worth a try
the recovery console is just DOS limited to about three commands
RE: Deleted My Documents! by ShawnZ on 02-19-2006 at 03:00 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Animal
i knew that, but using the recovery Console does work ok sometimes,
to do what?!
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Hank on 02-19-2006 at 03:30 AM
to do what?..its worked for me, i used a program called Cleanup 4.0 it was suposed to only cleanup Temprary files an rubbish, but it cleaned up me Startup Menu also. how i recovered from that was i used a System Repair Not a System Restore
RE: Deleted My Documents! by ShawnZ on 02-19-2006 at 03:35 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Animal
to do what?..its worked for me, i used a program called Cleanup 4.0 it was suposed to only cleanup Temprary files an rubbish, but it cleaned up me Startup Menu also. how i recovered from that was i used a System Repair Not a System Restore
its not a freaking system repair, its the recovery console. and how the hell did it bring back start menu items?
RE: RE: Deleted My Documents! by Hank on 02-19-2006 at 03:52 AM
quote:im not Windows, you ask it, better yet, Google it
Originally posted by ShawnZ
quote:
Originally posted by Animal
to do what?..its worked for me, i used a program called Cleanup 4.0 it was suposed to only cleanup Temprary files an rubbish, but it cleaned up me Startup Menu also. how i recovered from that was i used a System Repair Not a System Restore
its not a freaking system repair, its the recovery console. and how the hell did it bring back start menu items?
RE: Deleted My Documents! by ShawnZ on 02-19-2006 at 03:57 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Animal
im not Windows, you ask it, better yet, Google it
what the fuck are you on about?
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Voldemort on 02-19-2006 at 04:06 AM
shes using linux.
RE: Deleted My Documents! by ShawnZ on 02-19-2006 at 04:54 AM
quote:
Originally posted by damm-o
shes using linux.
i know, but how the hell does a console magically recover your start menu?
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Jhrono on 02-19-2006 at 12:57 PM
quote:Man, i think we're in to lots of confusion right here..
Originally posted by ShawnZ
know, but how the hell does a console magically recover your start menu?
One thing is when you boot from the windows cd and press R..
This will appear :
quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
quote:
Originally posted by Animal
Same thing Select or Press, an yes that is what i mean Recovery Console, it may work but then again it maynot, but worth a try
the recovery console is just DOS limited to about three commands
BUT, if you press enter instead of R, and press R after you'll get a thingie which will recover many aspects of your windows..
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Chris4 on 02-20-2006 at 11:52 AM
I'll try "System Repair" but whenever I use my Windows XP CD, it always says that my version of windows is not the same as the one of the CD (probely because I've updated?)
But I'll try it (at school at the moment).
RE: Deleted My Documents! by CookieRevised on 02-20-2006 at 07:42 PM
tbh, and to be quite frankly and blunt, you may as well simply give it up....
Doing all those things will do NOTHING good, in fact it will make things worse.
(even rebooting Windows may already have destroyed anything you could've undeleted)
If the helpers here actually advised the proper thing instead of advising to use tools which are not intended for such things and will actually and mostlikely have overwritten already any data you could undelete, you may have had a chance to undelete your files.
"System Restore", "Recovery Console", "System Repair", etc are NOT backup tools, neither are they used for recovering lost data!!!!!! They are used to recover a malfunctioning Windows installation. Never, EVER, suggest to use those tools for the purpose of undoing an installation, recovering lost files or any other related thing. They are ONLY to be used when Windows is seriously malfunctionning...
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quote:indeed!!!
Originally posted by Matty
No you dont want to run the recovery console or even repair Windows. It will only make things worse.
quote:If they are indeed overwritten, there is nothing you can do about it, they are lost forever. (unless you have a backup of the data of course)
Originally posted by Chris4
So it overwrited all my files in My Documents!
However, if they are just deleted, you may have (had! see above) a chance to undelete them by using an undelete (or unerase) tool.
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Chris4 on 02-20-2006 at 09:41 PM
Thanks Cookie.
Tried some of the tools, got some stuff back, then found out it was all currupted (ie. my homework etc. was replaced with jumble like "gpiajsdffgop"), so deleted all of them. Got a few pictures back. All the music was corrupted so deleted all them aswell.
Grr, stupid program. Why did it have to replace everything 
Thanks anyway.
RE: Deleted My Documents! by ShawnZ on 02-20-2006 at 09:51 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Johny
BUT, if you press enter instead of R, and press R after you'll get a thingie which will recover many aspects of your windows..
"press enter instead of r" -- you mean reinstall windows?
RE: Deleted My Documents! by surfichris on 02-20-2006 at 09:57 PM
quote:No, you can go on to select your Windows installation and the installer will try and repair it.
Originally posted by ShawnZ
"press enter instead of r" -- you mean reinstall windows?
Anyway, back to the topic. And how about, as Cookie said, we stop talking about crap which is completely wrong.
The program shouldn't have been able to overwrite your documents folder. The program wouldn't have been able to open and write to the folder as if it was a file.
It's hard to explain why, but I don't think it would have overwritten the folder with a file.
RE: Deleted My Documents! by Chris4 on 02-20-2006 at 10:11 PM
quote:It's weird because it didn't accually overwrite the folder, just everything in it.
Originally posted by Chris Boulton
It's hard to explain why, but I don't think it would have overwritten the folder with a file.
I was watching My Documents, then everything suddenly disapeared and was replaces with a file
But it doesn't matter now...