Reinstalled 4 xp times - 7gb left over of 80 gb
Ok...
A buddy of mine decided to clean his system... :frusty:
he reinstalled it 4 times (2xtimes with errors + cancelling reinstall) ontop of each other without reformat
he was despereate to play a game....
he forgot to backup his vitals...before reinstall :frusty:
Good News - the game works :01: :wacko:
Bad news - he only has 7gb left of his 80gbs and he needs his stuff.. :shutup:
there a 4 "users" in my documents and setting - i can only axcess the present one - Even in Administrator mode, even in Safe Mode the other users come up as axcess deneid.
When i right clik on the non axcessible users - in properties they all contain 0kb...
I havent tried an undelete program yet
but is ithere a way to get his stuff back - burn it
and then do a clean format and reinstall? :huh:
Re: Reinstalled 4 xp times - 7gb left over of 80 gb
Wierd that some of it stayed but the rest didn't either way hes only going to be able to recove mayve 30% at the max.
Re: Reinstalled 4 xp times - 7gb left over of 80 gb
but how?
i will do the undelete prog thing tomorrow - but if he simply reinstalled over it doesnt mean it is deleted..
Re: Reinstalled 4 xp times - 7gb left over of 80 gb
good luck
reformat all and install it just once
Re: Reinstalled 4 xp times - 7gb left over of 80 gb
look for a folder called c:\install... delete that, or as much of it as you can
sorry. ignore that. i thought you said the hard-drive was full
Re: Reinstalled 4 xp times - 7gb left over of 80 gb
You could run Knoppix Bootable CD Linux (not installed) and backup any data on the HDD you need before the reformat. While in Knoppix you can access all the files on the drive even password protected user data.
Re: Reinstalled 4 xp times - 7gb left over of 80 gb
its going to be soo fucked up I doubt you will be able to recover anything, hell he reset the mbr 4 times, I doubt anyone could recover it...
Re: Reinstalled 4 xp times - 7gb left over of 80 gb
same, i highly doubt youd get anything out of it.
Re: Reinstalled 4 xp times - 7gb left over of 80 gb
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Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
You could run Knoppix Bootable CD Linux (not installed) and backup any data on the HDD you need before the reformat. While in Knoppix you can access all the files on the drive even password protected user data.
yes i have my doubts also
ok so Miss Linux knoppix is the answer - nice tip - will try
could also come usefull in the future
thankyou :)
