Hard drive does not store anything new after power outage

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Ma-dazz

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There was a power outage yesterday while I was using my computer, and it instantly shut down of course. While the bootup went fine, I noticed that the BOOT.INI file was missing (which was fixed), and the hard drive never stores anything newer than the contents that existed until yesterday.

This means that I may delete, download and move files all I want, but after a reboot, the computer reverts to the state it was just before the power outage. The files and their positions remain exactly the same. Even the files I MOVE to my external HDD aren't there, they just disappear off my external HDD after I bootup or I open it in another PC.

I did System Restore, but that is completely useless in that situation for some reason.
I use Windows XP SP3, and also tried to load the recovery console via the CD I have, but it does not exist. It drives me straight to the formatting menu.
 
If it detects any errors, it will usually fix them or if the drive is too badly damaged it will tell you no repairs were made and drive failed the test.
 
That's a strange issue. So it resets all files every time you restart? If you installed a program and restart is it still there? Is it just files you move around. Does it just have one user acc. ?
 
StrangleHold said:
That's a strange issue. So it resets all files every time you restart? If you installed a program and restart is it still there? Is it just files you move around. Does it just have one user acc. ?
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Yeah its possible he has a program installed such as deep freeze to where it resets your system back to original after restart.
 
johnb35 said:
Yeah its possible he has a program installed such as deep freeze to where it resets your system back to original after restart.
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I don't have DeepFreeze installed, all of this happened after a power outage.
I ran SeaTools and it found completely nothing. I ran the Long Test (from the Basic Tests tab), then when it finished it ran a Short DST - both have passed the test. The problem is still not solved. What should I do next?

I should also say that I don't have this problem in my second OS, Ubuntu. I actually added a file from the Ubuntu partition to the Windows one and it worked.
 
So it's not a HDD issue then if you can copy a file from Ubuntu to Windows and the file is retained.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
So it's not a HDD issue then if you can copy a file from Ubuntu to Windows and the file is retained.
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Exactly. So what do I do next? I think a restoration of the OS files would be all I need, but the Recovery Console does not exist inside my Windows XP copy. How can I install it via Linux (as I obviously can't do that via Windows)?
 
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