In news:6B4C3AA5-D4A9-4F20-B4E8-A210C17E94D1@microsoft.com,
I only call when I want something had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
> This is a long one - i have a 80Gig hard drive that's been
> partitioned XP was on C: and the other side was F: called storage.
> Some time ago I had a virus or something that I couldn't get rid of,
> so I ended up reinstalling windows XP - when I start the computer now
> it gives me 2 operating systems which has been fine.All it means is
> that you select which operating system you want to use at start up.
> This has worked well for quite a while until I ran registry cleaner,
> which raised some issues which I deleted (registry cleaner comes with
> a restore feature so I thought if i deleted something I shouldn't I
> could get it back) After these deletions my antivirus program would
> not longer work, so I when back to the restore feature and restored -
> with one major problem - I restored to a date which was October 05
> and not october 06.
> Now when I start the system and choose the operating system, it's
> seems to have restored to a time before that system even exsisted so
> it just gives me a windows screen and nothing else, I've tried Ctrl,
> Alt,Del nothing works.
> I have managed to start the system on the original operating system
> and
> found the antivirus, ran it and cleaned whatever was wrong with it ,
> so I can get into the computer, but I've lost my Daughters college
> coursework which is still in there I think, I hope.
> I'm sorry that this so long but I thought that I'd give as much
> information as possible.
> Can anybody help?
> A month ago I purchased Winantivirus (I must add I also have registry
> cleaner) G
And this is why I don't recommend using registry cleaners...
*sighs*
Let's see what we CAN get to - are you still getting the chance to boot into
the second OS when you start your PC?
Can you at least SEE the other OS from the first one - as in navigate to the
files on it so that you can retrieve the school work?
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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
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