Thank you for your help FrankChin, I may have to do that

"FrankChin" wrote:

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> What a mess.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "I only call when I want something" wrote:
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> > 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