I had a system crash related to installing xp sp3. The only way I could get the system back up was to reinstall windows. Is there any way to find the files that were in the previous windows installation's 'my documents' folder? I had a few important files lost thru this process, and wondered if there is any possibility of recovering them.
View 2 RepliesI have a client who experienced a bsod - "Unmountable_Boot_Volumne" - using winxp sp2 - i fixed this by running a chkdsk /r via a xp boot disk - it reported a number of bad sectors and fixed a number of incorrect links. The machine restarted ok and was able to login back in ok.However.. the client has now lost all user data within his users profile - mainly under My Documents, Outlook data files and outlook address book.I have looked all over his machine and these files do not exist anywhere now.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with my pc. Can anybody help me? I normally save my all works and files in my documents folder in my windows xp OS. I have a username to log in to my pc.underthis user name I had made my documents private.One day to do some work I logged in to the PC as an administrator.Here I delete my user account and created with same name again. But now I have lost all my documents. I can see it's there in my documents and settings but access denied because of the folder made PRIVATE. Can you help me to get my documents back?
View 2 Replies View RelatedAlrite, ive got an emachines notebook running xp home on it. We bought it from best buy, and i guess they registered the computer to a 'valued customer' and its really annoying. Idk how the user name stuff works, but i think a while ago(not 100% positive cuz it was like 2 years ago) when we first got the computer i changed the admin 'valued customer' name to my name. but the 'my documents' folder defaulted to 'c:/documents and settings/valued customer' still. i fixed it by making a folder on c: with my name and made that folder the target location for the My Documents folder.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a user's My Documents folder redirected to a share on our domain controller. The name of this user's My Documents folder is username's Documents. Whenever I try to change this to My Documents, it immediately reverts back to username's Documents.However, if I open a command window and say dir, I see My Documents which is what I would expect.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhen normally you install win xp sp2 an account of administrator and guest account is created automatically and so it so happened that I created another administrator and then deleted the other administrator which was created by default and unfortunately there were documents that I had created which were important, but since then I have never been able to locate them,how do I recover those documents.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI locked "my documents" and i cant unlock becouse that program does not working.I downloaded and reinstalled but it wont work. System restore was off so i cant rollback and i cant unnistall program If i try open the my documents it says-C:documents and settingsadministratorMy documents refers to a location that is unavailable.it could be on a hardrive on this computer,or on a network.check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted,or that you are connected to your computer or to a network,and then try again.if it still cannot be located,the information might have been moved to a diffrent location.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI want to remove the shared documents folder from everywhere but I want to keep the my documents folder in my computer.i am using winxp sp2.
View 4 Replies View Relatedim using winXP i go to desktop and double click "My Computer" in my computer i see:
Shared Documents pc1's Documents (Local Disk C:) (Local Disk D:) i have already manage to change the target folder location of "My Documents" (c:Documents and Settingspc1My Documents) --> (d:Documents and Settingspc1My Documents) now the problem is; i want to change the target folder location of "Shared Documents" from(c:Documents and SettingsAll Users.WINXPDocuments) (d:Documents and SettingsAll Users.WINXPDocuments)
I've been unable to delete a folder and subfolder that appeared out of nowhere in October of 2003. The folder is named C:502371470d48710f4f and contains a subfolder named sp2. The subfolder contains 0 files. Both folders are read-only. I go to Properties and uncheck the read-only attributes; however when I try to delete I then find that the attributes have returned to (grayed-out) read-only. Access, of course, is denied.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI do alot of image work so i have alot of images... when i go to save an image in the my pictures folder, it does not show up. so i think, i go into windows explorer to the my pictures folder and only some of them show up.
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In previously highlighted issues regarding backing-up shared documents to my Seagate Freeagent hard drive, I simply decided to move the My Music Folder from the shared documents folder, but Windows is disallowing me from doing this stating that My Music is a Windows system folder & cannot be renamed or removed? Any help please on getting around this to move My Music from the shared documents? I'm running XP with servce pack 3.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have window xp working fine but i have problem that i cant see the hiddien files that i have made that no one can have acess to them but now when i check the option that show hidden file but when i exit the folder option it remain same file remain hidden. if some one know is it virus or some other problem.
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View 1 Replies View Relatedlost my windowsxp home,a friend offered to install his copy and said it would fine.it worked until i found out my copy wasn't genuine.in those 2 yrs all was fine,lost contact w/friend.Now couldn<t download xpservice pack 2,and the recently purchased norton anti virus would not work.was told needed to get new xpcd.was ok with that but not wanting to loose data had my bussness parter's boyfriend who work on pc take my desktop to save all my datas on an external drive.when went to pick up pc the external drive could not be read.I was devastated.thru a recovery program he was able to recover pictures and emails from my original drive and he transered all into a new external drive.but my favorites folder wasn't not recovered.and i had a bunch of adress from months of research that i really need.he tells me there is no hope.is this true?one more question,i had some back up of that folder on cd,now that my pc is all ok(genuinexp etc)do i just put these cd and re-instal those save favorites?I learned my lesson and want to make regular weekly back-ups,which program are best.faily new at this.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI am running winxp . due to virus infection in my machine I lost all the .pst file and also Thunderbird inbox files. All the start program shortcut was also wiped out. I was running AVG anti virus. Now I removed AVG and installed Microsoft supplied security essential software. It detected following virus ware and removed subsequently I want to recover deleted .pst and thunderbird mails.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had my system running XP but it is now running Windows 7 and for the reason I backed my files up to a portable Hard Drive formatted as FAT32. Now when I try to use the Files And Settings Transfer Wizard it doesn't seem to recognize the files and says that they are not there.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI made the change below however, if I click on a folder in the left hand "Folders" pane, it works as before and opens the folder and displayed in the contents in the right hand pane.
However, if I click on any folders in the right hand (files pane) a new windows explorer window opens a displays the "my documents".
The same thing happens if you click on a shortcut to a folder. Instead of the folder opening, it opens a new window and displays "my documents".
This problems started when I added a new function to the folder file folder file type properties to print out the contents of a folder by calling a batch file that piped the content to a file.
In the file association for file folders in the advanced section I now have three functions
- the afore mentioned 'create file list'
- explore (the default), and
- find
For the folder file type I just have:
- explore and
- open
Any suggestions on how to put things back to the way Windows Explorer always worked before make clicking folders in the right hand pane open them up properly in the same window as per clicking them on the left hand pane?
my computer crashed and I had to replace operation disk and lost old files and e-mail. Is there any way to recover at this point?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedJust recently I began to get the error message "Documents in this folder are not available. The folder may have been moved, deleted, or network problems may be preventing a connection to the server." every time I try to access one of my web-based folders. These worked before, and just recently stopped working. I am not sure if a security patch I applied did this
View 4 Replies View RelatedNew user, first time post here. I've got a problem with Windows XP. So a friend of mine gave me a copy of norton ghost 2003 to try out. Well, it must have been a bad copy because when I tried to run it, the program just hung up and did not start the dos ghost, despite waiting for an hour. I shut off the power to the computer, and then it was stuck in this loop of going to pc-dos whenever I turned on the computer. It would not bypass this despite picking the option to skip ghost and go straight to windows. So, I had a new hard drive to put into the computer (which precipitated this whole ghost business in the first place), and i reloaded windows, which went fine
View 6 Replies View Relatedmy d drive is full but the only thing showing in it is recovery and it is like 447k, the full size is 4 gigs. i cannot figure out what is in there.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI had a serious crash with windows xp (SP2) last night that resulted in having to reinstall Windows XP (it wouldn't repair, wouldn't let me partition and wouldn't let me install windows into a different
directory - was crashing for anything but a full reinstall). As a result of this, I've lost access to the my documents folder of my original user profile. Moreover, it shows as being 0 bytes in size, except the total size of my HDD has not been reduced.
Is it better to have the MyDocuments folder outside the local C: drive or to use the default MyDocuments folder that is a subfolder to the local C: drive? Why? I have been using a MyDocuments folder that is at the same level as MyComputer in the directory tree, because I was told that there is a limitation to the size of the MyDocuments folder. However, it also was mentioned that the size limitation does not exist with WinXPpro.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to find a way to change the location where files saved to the My Documents folder on one computer (smaller HD) to a network shared folder on another computer. My thought was to delete or hide the computer's My Documents folder and create a new My Documents folder on the network folder and place a shortcut to it on the the other computers desktop
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