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Retreiving files
I reinstalled windows XP and my old file are no longer there. I'm I able to
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Depends what 'old files' you refer to and what type of reinstall, a repair
or clean install or? "Ely" wrote in message ... I reinstalled windows XP and my old file are no longer there. I'm I able to retrieve it? -- elycharlienoah |
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dl brought up an interesting
point. in that if you had done a repair installation, then only the system files that were missing or corrupted would have been replaced with genuine ones from the cd. basically the above leaves the rest of the files intact. however, a clean install may not have wiped away those files. with a clean install, you basically re install the operating system from scratch. however, the question is was a format initiated at the time of the installation or skipped? if there was no format, then it is highly likely your personal files are still on the disk. the question is how to retrieve them. ideally if the master file table was re-indexed in some manner then the files on the disk could become visible again. however this is only a thought but I'm interested in researching this further. ------------- what you might try perhaps is to see if a software like recuva can see the data on the disk and recover it. not sure if it will work if it relies on the master file table being up to date. but worth a shot to try. -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces "share the nirvana" - dbZen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Ely" wrote in message ... I reinstalled windows XP and my old file are no longer there. I'm I able to retrieve it? -- elycharlienoah |
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"Ely" wrote in message
... I reinstalled windows XP and my old file are no longer there. I'm I able to retrieve it? -- elycharlienoah The definitive answer is, maybe. It depends. If you formatted the drive as part of the install, you probably can't. While theoretically you could use a recovery service to dredge files back, in reality they are probably badly overwritten now and not really recoverable. If you did a reinstall of a new version of XP, then you'll probably find that there is another set of user folders under c:\Documents and Settings, and you can just go to those folders and gain access to your files. At worst, with the exception below, you'll have to Take Ownership of the folders to get the files. The exception is if you have XP PRO, not Home, AND IF you invoked encryption (which is not available in XP Home). IF both of those are true, AND IF you did not take the foolishly optional step of backing up the account credentials, you won't decrypt the files. If you did back up the credentials, simply import them. HTH -pk |
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"Patrick Keenan" wrote in message ... "Ely" wrote in message ... I reinstalled windows XP and my old file are no longer there. I'm I able to retrieve it? -- elycharlienoah The definitive answer is, maybe. It depends. If you formatted the drive as part of the install, you probably can't. While theoretically you could use a recovery service to dredge files back, in reality they are probably badly overwritten now and not really recoverable. If you did a reinstall of a new version of XP, then you'll probably find that there is another set of user folders under c:\Documents and Settings, and you can just go to those folders and gain access to your files. At worst, with the exception below, you'll have to Take Ownership of the folders to get the files. The exception is if you have XP PRO, not Home, AND IF you invoked encryption (which is not available in XP Home). IF both of those are true, AND IF you did not take the foolishly optional step of backing up the account credentials, you won't decrypt the files. If you did back up the credentials, simply import them. I was in the process of typing a post asking why you considered the step of backing up the credentials to be foolish. But rereading what you wrote, I realised that there was an alternative interpretation that you were describing Misrosoft as foolish for making that particular step optional. I think many would agree with that interpretation. |
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"M.I.5¾" wrote in message
... "Patrick Keenan" wrote in message ... "Ely" wrote in message ... I reinstalled windows XP and my old file are no longer there. I'm I able to retrieve it? -- elycharlienoah The definitive answer is, maybe. It depends. If you formatted the drive as part of the install, you probably can't. While theoretically you could use a recovery service to dredge files back, in reality they are probably badly overwritten now and not really recoverable. If you did a reinstall of a new version of XP, then you'll probably find that there is another set of user folders under c:\Documents and Settings, and you can just go to those folders and gain access to your files. At worst, with the exception below, you'll have to Take Ownership of the folders to get the files. The exception is if you have XP PRO, not Home, AND IF you invoked encryption (which is not available in XP Home). IF both of those are true, AND IF you did not take the foolishly optional step of backing up the account credentials, you won't decrypt the files. If you did back up the credentials, simply import them. I was in the process of typing a post asking why you considered the step of backing up the credentials to be foolish. But rereading what you wrote, I realised that there was an alternative interpretation that you were describing Misrosoft as foolish for making that particular step optional. I think many would agree with that interpretation. It is awkwardly phrased, but you are correct, the foolish choice was MS's in allowing the credential export as optional. Nothing that encourages data loss should be permitted, let alone the default. |
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