Re: system restore

Gene85 wrote:

There is a great little program called "Save My Files" . I will get
back just about any deleted files.


There are many undelete programs around. Almost all of them work well, and
they can *sometimes* recover deleted files. My personal favorite is one
called "Restoration."


If you deleted the files you
should not be writing new files to the drive until you recover the
deleted files. Writing to the drive can overright the area the
deleted files are on the harddrive.


No, it's not quite that simple. The problem is that if you continue to run
Windows, it is *always* writing to the drive whether you expressly tell it
to or not. It creates hibernation files, restore points, enlarges the page
file as needed, writes to the registry, etc.

Here's my standard blurb on this subject:

"Deleting" a file doesn't actually delete it; it just marks the space as
available to be used. There are third-party programs that can sometimes
recover deleted files. The problem is that the space used by the file is
likely to become overwritten very quickly, and this makes the file
unrecoverable.

So your chances of successfully recovering this file are decent if you try
recovering it immediately after deleting it, and rapidly go downhill from
there. If you've been using the computer since then (for example to write
this question and read this answer), your chances are probably very poor by
now.

But if the file is important enough, it's worth a try anyway. Stop using the
computer in question immediately, if you haven't done so already. Download
an undelete program (here's one:
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html but there are several others
to choose from; do a Google search) on a friend's computer and bring it to
yours on a floppy to try.

If this fails, your only other recourse is to take the drive to a
professional file recovery company. This kind of service is very expensive
and may or may not work in your case.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

peaches wrote:

hi Ken, was gonna do a restore to get back a program that i deleted
off my computer. I was having problems with a kodak program and
they told me how to delete it off start menu but it deleted the
whole prgram and i was hoping to do a restore to get back all the
photos that i had downloaded onto program. Tracey


As I said, System Restore will not get you back the photos you've
deleted. It's not a substitute for a backup, but is only a tool to
restore the operating system.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

peaches wrote:

hi, i am needing to do a system restore aznd it is coming up that
system restore has been turned off please contact domain
administrator...help what does this mean???


Read here: "Error: Can't Access System Restore - Disabled by Group
Policy - or System Restore tab missing" at
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/error.html

Please be aware that Regedit is an extremely powerful and dangerous
tool. If you do this incorrectly, you can render your computer
unbootable. So if you've never used it before, you might want to
ask a more experienced friend to help you.



i really need to do a
system restore. thanks


Why? How do you know that? What do you expect it to do for you?
Just in case you don't know this, let me point out that it will
*not* restore any data files you may have lost.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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