Re: fixing parent problems

"pvphaneuf" wrote:
> Ok, well, the p's (parents) have enough experience to view
> their email, go on the internet, and download digital photos
> on our old sony VIAO, but this morning, while I was sleeping,
> catastophy hit; when booting up windows they were faced with a
> message saying, and I quote my parents "something wrong with
> windows configuration". So, they were prompted to insert their
> windows cd and instead inserted the VIAO recovery CD (because
> that is the only one they have) and well, the computer is back
> in 1998, which is ok because it works now, but my mother has
> lost all her pictures.
>
> So here is the question, would there be any way to pull the
> pictures out of some sort of system recovery that I have
> overlooked besides the regular windows system recovery or
> anything that I may have overlooked, even though they haven't
> made any backups in the last 3 years or any other safety
> precaution of the sort. I told them it was hopeless, but just
> in case I may have overlooked something, I'm all ears to the
> advice that you guys might have for me.
>
> Thnx in advance for any responses!
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well, I was able to get all kinds of software through such as the
OnTrack Uber-Expensive and with that I was able to get everything they
needed off the D drive (which is NFTS, so the recovery quatilty was
very good), but it had problems picking up anything on the C drive
which is FAT32 (and from what I?ve heard has less then good recovery
quality) so I tried a free distrobution called PC Inspector which has
been able to find all lost data in a large array of *cluster* files:
many have now become corrupted, though, I?m still able to pick some
out. Thanx for all the advice though, and I?ve already talked to them
about getting an external harddrive; I?ve got one that I use for my
laptop and I was able to demonstrate the ease of use in backing up
pics and other parent stuff.

Though, here is another question; why would a company put two formats
on different logical partition for windows (such as my FAT32 and
NFTS)?
.

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