file restoration

Hi all; I have a divx reader with hard disk connected by a wireless network to my PC: while I was renaming some folders the network went down and the folders become files, so now are unreadable. Now, when I connect the network drive, in the left column I have 8 folders (instead of the 10 that I...

Hi I've lost some work by opening an attachment from an e-mail, forgetting to save it locally, and then saving the document and closing. I think it's saved the updated file to a Temporary Internet File somewhere, but I can't find it. I've tracked backwards by re-opening the original file from...

I tried using Partition Table Doctor Recovery tool, but it doesn't seem to work for me. The program looked to work at first; it recognized my data and "recovered" it, until I noticed that all my documents are there, but there are no "text" when I open them. My music files are recognized, but...

Hi, I have recently upgraded from Vista Ultimate x64 to W7 Ultimate x64 (it went very smoothly), and I have a small problem. When I select: Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > Advanced > User Profiles > Settings : (phew !) There are 3 Profiles listed as usual: * Default...

I was asked recently if I was losing any resolution with my pictures when they were backed up by W7 (or any other version of windows). Since W7 uses zipped files for the backup, there is got to be a loss of resolution somewhere that cannot be brought back when de-zipping (restoring) the files...

A bit of background on my situation: I recently installed Windows 7 Professional over Windows Vista Home Premium. A windows.old folder was created on my hard drive which stored all my previous files. Once the installation was complete, I moved all of my files back to where they should be...

I have been having this problem with my Windows 7 x64 Professional install. Whenever I delete a file to the recycling bin, and then drag it out (to the desktop usually) to restore, the file is renamed to what it would be like in the temp folder. Is this the expected action of Windows 7 and...

I've had windows 7 for a couple of weeks now on a brand new computer. I'm impressed with it but I'm having a problem. Twice now, I've powered up my computer to find that my saved game files were missing and my wife was missing documents that she had been working on. The games were still...

Can you restore files from a vista back up? Like pictures, firefox bookmarks.....

This was a real Mother......! But I finally got it done, with all my files and applications re-installed. There are limits to what can be restored from backup, and I had do do a lot of it manually. I have to say, that my sanity was seriously challenged during my repeated attempts - at least four...

Hello, I am faced with a real big problem. Recently I've lost all my data due to a RAID problem and had to use a full system image backup I was able to make before the crash. Here's the catch: I use a Core2Quad with 2 SATA drives on RAID 0 and Vista 64 ULTIMATE. I have the windows installation...

Hello. I have a Vista Ultimate operating system. I have two partitions: C and D. In C I have my windows and in D i had my documents. Last times the computer booted from the hard disk I had to repair my Vista to let me enter in the windows. Because of that I formatted my C partition, by...

I can't restore my backed up files. Had to replace hard drive, and was using backup to an external hard drive, but can't restore?? Help!!

Hi everyone. I have Vista Home Professional installed on my AMD notebook. I have by mistake permanantaly deleted(shift + delet) window's default "Picture" folder. It containes lot of subfolders & images. Is there anyway if this error can be undone & images recovered. I had not created any...

I tried to install vista. after install, I found Documents and settings from XP is totally gone. the folder is 0 in size, and i click on it, it says access denied. i had lot of files in it. :( anybody know how to get it back? :confused: please help.