She can still boot into windows and I walked her through almost the exact scenario you outlined last night, but she said nothing happened and that even though the computer would boot into windows, it was unresponsive whenever she tried to do anything. I ran her through chkdsk and a few other command line tests and everything seems fine with the drive and files themselves. The couple quotes she got in her area to just look at the machine seemed ridiculous.
lopaka ________________________________ From: Winterlight <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 1:02:03 PM Subject: Re: [H] Any list members near Penryn, CA ?? I assume she can sill boot into windows? Can she log in as administrator? If so, I would have her bring up a command window, go to the appropriate folder, and issue a command to move the pictures to another drive, or folder. For example something like C:\Documents and Settings\User\Documents\copy *.jpg d:\pics w At 09:50 AM 3/13/2010, you wrote: > I have a family friend that had something happen to her computer (don't know > if viral or user error), but needs to get all her digital pictures off the > box. I'm assuming it would be an easy recovery for any experienced list > member, but it is way beyond her level. She somehow copied all her temp files > into the documents folder and there are so many files she can't list or view > them in that directory any longer. I was thinking a BART or Hirens CD to copy > the files off to an external device. > > lopaka
