Hi there,
I was recommended to your site, can you please explain what the above means, as im new to this program.
Edit: As my files were deleted without my consent from Program Files, when i was uninstalling an app. that was corrupt & needed to reinstall it & when i was uninstalling it, it seemed to be going thru a lot of programs in Prog. Files for some reason unknown to me.
So i'll have a lot of restoring to do, and some i probably wont recognise? as i've seen a lot of green marks, but i assume the red marks/spots mean something bad?
& as its mentioned here:
The C: drive is the only one i have as far as i know,
Thanks for listening & for any advice heeded in this matter.
PS. It mentions that you should not be browsing while running the app. but what if you dont know that & lookin for info on this, as that's what happened to me when i started the app.
It looks like i've a lot to learn ![:(]()
Hello dave09,
Welcome to the forum.
Too bad it is under such unfortunate circumstances.
It is nice to know that our forum is being recommended.
When it comes to recovering data,every user has a lot to learn.
The advice Augeas has been giving you is very valuable to save as much of your data as possible.
These links are important as to Recuva.
Edit 03/14/2008 Corrected links
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=14299 MrRon info about Recuva.
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=8563 Recuva Guide
If you can use a friends computer,please do so.
Now down to your situation.
You apparently have an operable OS, so I would advise NOT doing a System Restore until you Recover as much lost data as possible.Your OS "may" be just fine.
Do you have any backups of this data? It is very hard to recover deleted files completely.Sure it can be done but you may have more than you can handle.
Is this data very valuable to you? Professional recovery is expensive but may be more succesful than your efforts.This may be a learning opportunity for you and your friends,try Recuva and get as much as you can.
It may be better to leave things as they are and rebuild from there.It is all up to you.
I would make backups of what files are valuable and still available to be copied.Your OS itself "may" be corrupted, that is why you want to backup what you can now.Copy what you can from your hard drive to another drive or computer.
It is unusual for uninstalls to do what happened to you.
What uninstall method were you using?
Just some advice for the future, try to copy and if needs be delete the "corrupted" file first and work from there before you decide to uninstall the complete application.
Some apps leave some things behind,good ones don't.Sometimes strange situations occur and there is no way of avoiding them.
Just the simple act of backing up your data even on the same drive at least leaves you with recent data still available to rebuild from in such a situation.
Just remember to copy what you can before trying to do any further system maintenance tasks.
Good Luck,
davey