your file descriptions sound like your files are now in a proprietary backup form and may be difficult to recover until you have the program that put them up installed in your new C: drive. otherwise you may be able to use : http://www.recuva.com/ recovery program to look in places these things will not. It may be of value to look at properties and see if you now have much less on the drive than you did before this happened. This would tell you that your access to these files is deleted. They will still not be gone as long as you have not written a lot of stuff to the drive, but recovery is more difficult.
I must compliment you on your intelligent and well chosen methods of choosing what advice to listen to. Good luck John --- On Sat, 9/20/08, pekoe4849 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: pekoe4849 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [A-1-Computer_Tech] Re: Help! Windows won't boot! To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 11:06 AM That seems logical, but they're not there. No typical Windows files like My Documents, My pictures, etc are 'visible'. I found themsort ofbut I don't know how to recover them. When I ran a virus scan I watched the list of files go by as it scanned, and my missing files were there! BUT, they are in the following path on D drive: found.000\dir0001. chk\Owner\ My Documents How do you recover .chk files? I can't even find them when I do a wildcard search of :*.chk". I can't find any text that's in that path. Thanks, Diane --- In A-1-Computer_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com, "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They probably are Jim and if the Current boot drive that was D can now look > at the D drive that was C she should be able to get at all the files by > clicking the D drive in My Computer. > > > > > > > > > > Ian > > -------Original Message----- -- > > > > From: jpurcell > > Date: 20/09/2008 01:40:30 > > To: A-1-Computer_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com > > Subject: Re: [A-1-Computer_ Tech] Re: Help! Windows won't boot! > > > > Cathy, > > > > > I hate to break it to you but probably not.Not if you did a install > > > on it. > > > > If I read her message right, she changed jumpers on her old Windows > > Drive so that it became the secondary, I.e. Not the boot drive, And a > > Different drive is running Windows as the boot drive. I can't say > > Whether she has lost her files but it seems to me that they should be > > In the My Documents folder of the original drive. > > > > Jim > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
