Lost files non destrucive recovery?

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RainDownMyBlues

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So I have a rather odd debacle. Earlier today I had an error on startup that a certain system file was corrupt or missing, and not being able to actually get into the OS and do some searching I just decided to go ahead with the "non destructive recovery"

It said that it would replace all system files and applications but leave all my data files and what not....

Where it gets odd is that nothing in my user documents is still there. Only a few applications I had.... But the real kicker is that under "my computer" the HDD says that 74 gigs of 300 are free... From what I remember, that's really close, if not exactly what it was before I had to "recover" it.... I've looked through the drive, and can't seem to find where everything went.. It still must be there if it's saying only 74 gigs is free.... Anyone have any clue where they might be hiding?

Thanks... Oh and XP pro by the way.
 
Have you tried using the file search tool to look for file names that you want to find? Search the entire hard drive with the tool.
 
2048Megabytes said:
Have you tried using the file search tool to look for file names that you want to find? Search the entire hard drive with the tool.
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I'm honestly not having much luck with the search with one of the only things I can even remember.... Ugh... Do you think it's misrepresenting the disk? Or? I don't know. I'm obviously on the admin account. But sheesh. It said it wasn't going to kill off my data files, so for the first time I actually trusted it and didn't remove the drive and back up my stuff with another computer first. I'm thrown off by why the HDD usage seems what it was. But I don't know where they would be hiding :( I'll keep using the search function.

I'm also concerned when it said that it would uninstall all my applications, and restore to default, but most of my applications are still here. A few a missing, such as malwarebytes, but firefox and a few others were still here. Bookmarks were gone(That SUCKS) but still here. Ugh.
 
RainDownMyBlues said:
I'm honestly not having much luck with the search with one of the only things I can even remember.... Ugh... Do you think it's misrepresenting the disk? Or? I don't know. I'm obviously on the admin account. But sheesh. It said it wasn't going to kill off my data files, so for the first time I actually trusted it and didn't remove the drive and back up my stuff with another computer first. I'm thrown off by why the HDD usage seems what it was. But I don't know where they would be hiding :( I'll keep using the search function.

I'm also concerned when it said that it would uninstall all my applications, and restore to default, but most of my applications are still here. A few a missing, such as malwarebytes, but firefox and a few others were still here. Bookmarks were gone(That SUCKS) but still here. Ugh.
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ya, your files should be there
 
fyi that will only find them if the drive hasn't formatted. Some files that vare written over come up as lost.
 
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