well i dont have any idea what had happened.yesterday it was all fine. now when i logged in my system i found all the setting changed, all the folders i saved in C Drive are missing. but nothing has gone from D drive,and most amizingly the installed components in C Drive are still present. ONLY "MY" FOLDERS are gone from C?? rest everything which i had installed are still there. PC is now running faster and errors of PC which used to come while scannig chkdsk is gone. WHAT HAD HAPPENED? CAN I GET MY DATA BACK? pls tell me!!!
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What happened is probably one of a thousand different things, i can suggest two things, possibly your folders have the "hidden" flag turned on so make your system display hidden folders (depending on your operating system this is done differnt ways) the second option is Spinrite a program avalible from GRC.com it is inexpensive, small and will recover much (90%) if not all of your lost data. It is VERY important though that you limit the use of your hard drive untill you recover your data as if your data will be overwritten more and more untill you recover it.
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There may have been catastrophic damage to your system. I suggest backing up your data and reinstalling Windows off the OS disk that came with your computer.
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You need to defrag the hard drive and do a disk clean up.\n\nGo to> Start, Click on Programs, go to> Accessorys, Click on tools link, go to Defrag. run a check on the C:Drive.\nAfter that do a disk clean up same place.
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Go to start, my computer (if you don't have the desktop icon), C drive, program files, windows media center then under that there will be folders with different items in it, if it's not there, then if it's not there, you would go back to C drive and look under the windows folder.  Sometimes they are stored in both places so you might need to look at both.
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The answer is that you can safely delete everything in that folder. It is the place where all the programs you have ever installed leave garbage, like installers and logs of activity.\n\nIf you are new to this sort of thing, try to find your Temporary Internet Files, which are a cache of all the web pages you have ever visited that make your computer load web pages faster. They suck disk space if you don't clean them regularly, and if you don't want a list of EVERY site you visit on your computer you have cause for concern. They'r hidden here: \nC:&#92;Documents and Settings&#92;{Insert Your User Name Here}&#92;Local Settings&#92;Temporary Internet Files\n\nIgnore the drive D thing. That's probably Windows Recovery, which mirrors your regular architecture so you can restore the whole thing if you do something foolish, like delete the whole Temporary folder and not just the contents.
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Nope that recently happened to me and I lost everything, pictures, programs and all music. You need to either save them all to Cd's or download them onto an ipod.
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I don't think so. I am not an expert on PCs, but I know that everything is STORED on the C: Drive. The D: Drive is something else..it MAY be a CD drive, it may be the appliations...not sure. But I am 95% sure that you can not store thiungs on the C: Drive.
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Try the System Restore which takes you back to a time when your computer was working good. Go To: \nstart\nprograms\naccessories\nsystems tools\nsystem restore\nThis process is completely reversable. And does not remove your personal files.  Just go back one checkpoint at a time until your puter is working good again.\nE
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You need to recover the deleted files. Find a decent recovery software (RecoverMyFiles, Easy Recorery, both have a trial period) and then scan the "History" forder for your explorer.
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he cleared the histoy right click the start button>search>*.jpg look in local disk  C: >advanced choose system folders,hidden files and folders and subfolders
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That is extremely bad news, a few years ago it would be the worst. I'm afraid what you'll have to do is reformat the drive. \n\nFortunately all is not lost as there are two pieces of software that will recover the data from the drive after this has taken place.\n\nGetDataBack and Ontrack Easy Recovery - I've used GetDataBack before in the same situation and found it works brilliantly.\n\nThe best of luck, and next time remember to back up to DVD or CD.
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you should have a system restore on your system. Just set it to a time before defragmentation, that way its as if nothing ever happened! I love it, its like rewinding.
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Sounds like your hard drive is toast. Usually this kind of thing means there are bad sectors. I have heard there are some programs that can pull the undamaged data from the drive. Try searching Yahoo or Google. I am sure there are many sights in cyberworld with downloadable programs to recover lost data.
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nope, that data is lost for good, you can remove that image from the external drive, but you can't recover the data that was there before he copied over it
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Your hard drive isn't affected, but your install of XP will definitely suffer some problems. When you install XP on a system there are hundreds (if not thousands) of adjustments that are made to enable XP to "talk" to your particular hardware setup. When you plug your c: drive into a new motherboard you're essentially moving your entire system into a new environment and all of the adjustments that XP made to talk to your old chipset and drivers and so on are different. At best, your new setup will work with no major flaws that you notice. At worst, your new setup will crash violently and take all of  your data with it. My advice is to back up all your critical data from your old system, perform a clean install of XP, and then migrate your old files to the new system. Any other plan of action is risking your data and not a good idea, IMHO.
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You have to back them up in a secondary storage device like a USB drive or a CD. If you have multiple drives in your PC (say a C and a D drive),you can move the files from C to D and format the C drive if you want. If you run short of space,then distribute them across the drives you have. Still if you run out of space,there is no other way but to take a CD/USB backup.\n\nTo recover the lost files,try if they are hidden under Folder options. If you attempted a format on the drive and it went blank because of it,then there's no way i know that you can recover it.
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once you restore the computer to its original config (just like the first day you started it up) then all data is erased and its reloaded back to its original configuration. you can only reload your programs and data files if you made a backup.