What a mess.

Which is why I keep a backup PLUS a copy of data of "My Documents", so I can
always recover data, either restoring the entire disk, restoring part of it
or copy some files or directories.

If the college course is important enough, there's "data recovery services"
that you can find doing a little googling. Years back, I was the IT guy at
some company in NYC, the HD was messed up, and another employee took the
drive to CT, recovered the data professionally, and got back in less than a
day. Sometimes, time is money and I could of spent days figuring the cause.
Could've taken us days to figure out a "free" way of recovering the data.




"I only call when I want something" wrote:

> 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