2007-06-24 12:28:50 · 8 answers · asked by navysinbad 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
The easiest for any lousy technician to do is a clean installation (w/c includes reformatting). If that's what he did (most likely), then all your files were also wiped clean.
You could have specified that you need your files on the hard drive or you could have asked the geeks here first for help. Win XP is SO EASY to repair. There is an auto-repair function in the CD itself and you go through something similar to a fresh installation but at a shorter duration. ALL files are left intact, GUARANTEED.
2007-06-24 13:01:23 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you can't find your files, then the tech probably reformatted your hard drive. Try "get data back for NTFS". There is a free version that you can run to see if your data is still "there". Do NOT install the program (or anything else)on the computer that you want to recover. Anything that you put on your hard drive will overwrite files that you may possibly recover. Install get data back on another computer and use you computer HD as a slave or do it over a network.
2007-06-24 20:01:33 · answer #2 · answered by ljnalley@sbcglobal.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends how he reinstalled windows. If he just overwrote the file system your in luck. Go to my computer- then click on the c drive-. then click on documents and settings if you see your old user name as well as your current user name. Click on the old user name and all your desktop and my doc will be there you will just have to copy them to you new profile. If not its all gone.
2007-06-24 19:37:41 · answer #3 · answered by garends1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im sorry to have to tell you this but, you probably won't be able to. If you have a chance, contact Ontrack Data Recovery to see if they can do it for you. Its not cheap. So be prepared to plunk down some serious money to get your data back.
2007-06-24 19:32:40 · answer #4 · answered by mrforged 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you save your data to a disk ? If not and he reinstalled your windows, it's gone.
2007-06-24 19:31:44 · answer #5 · answered by perk2u_wi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ummm .... you can't.
Unless you specifically told them to recover any data, then they would usually have put it on a partition and replaced it after reinstalling XP.
2007-06-24 19:32:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If he reinstalled xp, then all of your documents/pictures are gone.
2007-06-24 19:31:39 · answer #7 · answered by Robert C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
DONE!
2007-06-24 19:36:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋