System Restore question...

October 11, 2008

Ok. Here is what happened first of all:

I was doing a defrag on my comp.. it was at 37%, I decided to see if this

Sonic RecordNow! was the program I needed to use to burn a DVD, so I clicked

it to open it and a blue screen with a bunch of white words on it popped up

and then shut my computer down. I turned it back on.. it got to the screen

where I enter my password.. I entered it. It then acted as if it was going to

load windows and I seen my desktop background image but then it would go

right back to the password screen.. and no matter how many times I entered my

password it would keep doing that. I left my computer off for awhile and

tried later, stll the same thing. I didn't know what else to do and since I

couldn't even get to windows to ask for help, I restored to factor settings,

but not a destructive one. So it says my data files should be here still. So

I finally get it all set back up and logged into windows and obviously I have

to redownload every program I downloaded.. but when I went into like "My

Pictures" folder.. I see NONE of my pictures.

I do a "Search" and all my pictures, movies, music are still on my

computer... but not where they say they are... Am I missing something? How do

I get all these files back to where they are supposed to be and not have to

"Search" to be able to open them????

Thanks

October 11, 2008

Re: System Restore question...

First off, you shouldn't have been running any application programs whilst

defragging the hard-disk, other than the hard disk defragmentation program

itself, that is just asking for trouble.

Secondly, you should "Check the Disk for errors" prior to defragging it.

....anyhow, you say that you have "factory reset" the machine, and your

"photos" are still on the hard disk i.e. you can "find" them.

This sounds as though an application program had previously been assisting

you in the storage and management of your "photos." You might like to

reinstall

that application program, though if that program was "indexing" them in some

way - that program may fail to present them to you in the way that you were

used to handling them.

You might like to read :-

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/Figuring-Out-Windows-Files-and-Folders.id-3448.html

regards, Richard

"Angela" <Angela@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:19AD6B54-5F8D-4020-A1F2-E8983B3F2070@microsoft.com...

> Ok. Here is what happened first of all:

>

> I was doing a defrag on my comp.. it was at 37%, I decided to see if this

> Sonic RecordNow! was the program I needed to use to burn a DVD, so I

> clicked

> it to open it and a blue screen with a bunch of white words on it popped

> up

> and then shut my computer down. I turned it back on.. it got to the screen

> where I enter my password.. I entered it. It then acted as if it was going

> to

> load windows and I seen my desktop background image but then it would go

> right back to the password screen.. and no matter how many times I entered

> my

> password it would keep doing that. I left my computer off for awhile and

> tried later, stll the same thing. I didn't know what else to do and since

> I

> couldn't even get to windows to ask for help, I restored to factor

> settings,

> but not a destructive one. So it says my data files should be here still.

> So

> I finally get it all set back up and logged into windows and obviously I

> have

> to redownload every program I downloaded.. but when I went into like "My

> Pictures" folder.. I see NONE of my pictures.

>

> I do a "Search" and all my pictures, movies, music are still on my

> computer... but not where they say they are... Am I missing something? How

> do

> I get all these files back to where they are supposed to be and not have

> to

> "Search" to be able to open them????

>

> Thanks

October 11, 2008

RE: System Restore question...

If youre pictures are not in "my documents" then where did they end up at...

Either way,one might go to my computer,search,enable all files,protected

also,type:jpg Or whatever data youre looking for,if results are the

files,go to

edit,select all,move files to area you'd like them to be.

"Angela" wrote:

> Ok. Here is what happened first of all:

>

> I was doing a defrag on my comp.. it was at 37%, I decided to see if this

> Sonic RecordNow! was the program I needed to use to burn a DVD, so I clicked

> it to open it and a blue screen with a bunch of white words on it popped up

> and then shut my computer down. I turned it back on.. it got to the screen

> where I enter my password.. I entered it. It then acted as if it was going to

> load windows and I seen my desktop background image but then it would go

> right back to the password screen.. and no matter how many times I entered my

> password it would keep doing that. I left my computer off for awhile and

> tried later, stll the same thing. I didn't know what else to do and since I

> couldn't even get to windows to ask for help, I restored to factor settings,

> but not a destructive one. So it says my data files should be here still. So

> I finally get it all set back up and logged into windows and obviously I have

> to redownload every program I downloaded.. but when I went into like "My

> Pictures" folder.. I see NONE of my pictures.

>

> I do a "Search" and all my pictures, movies, music are still on my

> computer... but not where they say they are... Am I missing something? How do

> I get all these files back to where they are supposed to be and not have to

> "Search" to be able to open them????

>

> Thanks

October 12, 2008

Re: System Restore question...

Angela wrote: