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Computer question - any way to recover???

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Win7 laptop SSD hard drive. I rebooted because of some stupid windows update and all of a sudden the BSD and the computer rebooted about 100 times and reinstalled WIN7 from scratch. WIPPED everything off of the computer.
It also looks like it swapped partitions a bunch of times probably to get the back up data from a different partition.
Is there any chance of restoring the system to where it was before?? how about finding the few files which were on the drive (since I don't really do anything overly usefull on this computer it may not be the biggest lose in the world but this is still very annoying!)
 
I am not sure but you may try a System Restore to a date before this fiasco.
 
Keoke said:
I am not sure but you may try a System Restore to a date before this fiasco.
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Only way I know of getting it back also, unless, you have a system back up. PJ
 
I have my entire HD on another portable USB drive. If I get toasted, I can clone the portable to the HD in the computer. Automatically wipes the HD, re formats and installs the whole system back. Just start it up and walk away. Takes about 4 hrs. PJ
 
If all your personal files are wiped out system restore probably won't fix that since normally that only affects the folders in the directories needed to run the computer. What I would try first, if you don't have a saved backup of your files on a remote device, is do a search for "windows recovering deleted files". There is software and services that may be able to help since a deleted file isn't really deleted from the disk, just removed from the directory to allow the computer to see the space as available for reuse. So if the original error didn't over write the data you may be able to rebuild the directories. Otherwise, you're probably out of luck.
 
Well after playing with it for a while, it looks like I am just a bit out of luck since it reformated the drive. Fortunately I don't really use this computer for anything of great importance but I do think that I am going to have to implement a slightly better recovery strategy, particularly with our main computer.
 
Cut your losses and consider it an object lesson for due diligence with regard to your main box, Yiz. And put the backups on at least two types of media.

I have yet to put SSD drives in clients' server machines. Maybe in another year or so.
 
Download and install *Recuva*,Google it, it's a free file recover program and pretty good at that. Depending on your internet connection, it could take from 5 to 10 minutes to download. It will search your entire computer if you wish. There are many options. Try it, you might get back what you lost. Nice program. User friendly. PJ
 
DrEntropy said:
I have yet to put SSD drives in clients' server machines. Maybe in another year or so.
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I've been running an SSD in my daily use computer for 2 years now. Still a speed demon with no issues.
 
Hi Paul, Recuva looks like it did the job, now I have 29,843 files to sort through and find anything worth saving :rolleye: looks like about a dozen files for every web page I ever visited.
 
70herald said:
Hi Paul, Recuva looks like it did the job, now I have 29,843 files to sort through and find anything worth saving :rolleye: looks like about a dozen files for every web page I ever visited.
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Great, Glad it worked for you! :encouragement: PJ
 
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