I lost all my pictures and music on hard drive
my pc did not start after the installation of the printer without disc, I did a complete system restore (I think), the pc works now, but I lost all photos of doc., music please help I really need thank you back photos
Looks like you did a full system reinstall (differs from a system restore) and that's why files have disappeared. If this is the case, even the shadow suggestion below won't help because those who will have been removed as well. You will need to try using recovery software.
If you have Vista Business, Vista Ultimate or Vista Enterprise, you can be lucky. They have so-called saves shadow copies, which are deleted or modified files that can be recovered in case changes/deletions made by mistake. http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/Windows-Vista/features/shadow-copy.aspx more information about how to use this feature to: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/howdoi/?p=145.
If you have Vista Basic or Premium of Vista, shadow copies is not available; However, there is an alternative that is free and the shadow copies feature called Shadow Explorer. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/recover-files-with-shadow-copies-on-any-version-of-windows-vista/. Although it will not help you this time, it could very well save you in case this happens again.
In case this does not work (not all files are available through shadow - it occurs periodically), here are some additional free recovery programs that might help:
http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/DiskDigger.html
http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/easusdfr.html
http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/restoration.html
http://www.SoftPerfect.com/products/FileRecovery/
http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/undeleteplus.html
http://www.Piriform.com/Recuva
http://www.munsoft.com/EasyDriveDataRecovery/
http://techpaul.WordPress.com/2008/06/23/how-to-recover-your-lost-files/
The files are not really deleted until they are crushed (although they are no longer available through conventional methods). If you decide to try these recovery programs, you should stop using your drive hard immediately in order not to replace the data that you are trying to recover. He slave on another PC and launch the recovery of this PC. Even now you have definitely lost some of them if you use the same PC. If you can not do this (slave on another PC), you run the risk of overwriting the data with every action you do on the PC (but you may still be able to recover some or most or even all files - it's a matter of luck).
Only you can decide if the data is important enough to take the PC to an expert data recovery to recover files (they will have better programs and hardware to do that none of us do, and I've provided above). Do NOT go to the Geek Squad or one of these centers of store-, they generally don't know what they are doing - it take for expert data recovery. It will cost you a little and they generally offer no guarantees. The decision is yours.
Good luck and I hope this helps!
Lorien - a - MCSE/MCSA/network + / A +.
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