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COMPUTER CRASHED!!! HELP!!!
strider4life
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my computer crashed after someone took off the power plug. I restarted and had to reboot the whole system. I have a 100 GB harddrive and there only seems to be only 5 GB left on the computer now and i have no idea where everything has gone!!
files in "all users" have remained for some reason. I have a hp pavilion using XP edition on my computer. Please help me get back this important information. thank you.
files in "all users" have remained for some reason. I have a hp pavilion using XP edition on my computer. Please help me get back this important information. thank you.
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I KISS YOU!
What the hell does this even mean? If someone took out the power cable, it was off. Then you turned it back on on, and then restarted again? Once it finished booting after you restarted, 95GB of data was missing?
disclaimer: this post is about as useful as your OP.
I have a 150gb HDD hooked up to my PC. After installing a new GPU motherboard and CPU it is now only being recognised by windows at 30gb.
Bear in mind i did format the main drive which is still being read at its correct size. I have two HDDs.
her step father is blind and has prosthetic eyes
he took them out one night, woke up, one was missing, no dogs were present
that was about a week and a half ago, no one has been able to locate it, they have no clue what happened
(shits cost 2000 a piece)
and man seeing a person without eyes in is absolutely terrifying if you're not warned beforehand
edit: it's really not that similar but interesting story
8-)
he doesn't do the sunglasses thing, he hates it
right click on the drive. go to properties. then I think tools and then check disk for errors.
So he does the walk around with empty eyesockets thing?o_O
So the drive says you have 95GB used, which is correct, but you can't find your files? What files are missing? Have you run any sort of disk checking program? Do you own any disk checking programs? What do you expect us to do?
he just didn't leave the house
scared me the fuck out though, just wide open bloody sockets man
i'm all hey ricHWHOAWHATTHEFUCK
Are the hidden?
You should probably get someone a little more savvy to come over there and take a look at it. It's probably not as dire as you think.
my computer runs XP edition with 3 users and when i look under "documents and settings" it still has the previous accounts (but is not accessible and under properties there seems to be nothing inside)
Anyone have a reason why?
Back up whatever you can recover and see if you can get the hard drive replaced under warranty.
i wonder if you lost access to those user accounts. if you can access things in drive c without issues, but if the 95 gb was in user specific accounts, you might have been locked out of them because the computer thinks you don't have the correct credentials to view it
3-4 years ago, my xp laptop couldn't view any files in the all users area, so after that weird fiasco, i've put some of my data in another partition, so it wouldn't deal with windows user accounts
Is there anyway to access the previous users somehow?
You would back up your important shit regularly.
Aside from stuff like setting up RAID 1, which is quite frankly over your head, that's it.
Hard drives just die sometimes. Prepare for it.
i've been resorting to usb external hd for backup.. which is fine, but i should take mono's advice and get even more redundant than that
well yes, that's quite possible.
but at least he'll know one way or the other with a quick check with spacemonger.
Lets think postively here, and hope he just like had 90gb's of really hidden porn and just can't find the really deep folder tree he put it in
Yeah, I mean, it's cool if you use a USB External as a backup, but they fail pretty often, so you don't want to really rely on them. If your 'important documents' consist of some backed up emails and your resume, it's not like you really need more than that. Your stuff is still safe that way in the unlikely situation that both drives fail at the same time, and something like FileScavenger can't recover anything from either, which is pretty rare.
But for people with more sensitive and important documents, like say, accounting or banking data, you should really be making hard copies as well. I think a good solution for a home user is keeping them on a local drive, with nightly USB drive backups, then burning the backups to a CD or DVD monthly or bi-weekly. And do a slow burn on some decent media, don't buy a 100 pack of off-brand CD-R's for $10 and burn at 52x without a verification phase and expect your shit to work.
yeah, at least my data isnt stuff like corporate or govt data. i'm not sure if there is a good program out there for backup up documents. as in, i want it to back up my whole hd or certain partitions onto a series of dvds without me micromanaging what files on which, and not in some obscure .backup file format
Total size of disk 100 GB
Used space 8 GB
Free space 5 GB
Unscannable 87 GB (which is all the space i've used before but couldn't find. does this mean my hard drive has died?)
Hidden space 0 bytes
tl;dr: you're fucked, get a new drive.