 Undo A Reinstall Of Os |
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 May 10 2008, 03:24 PM
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May 10 2008, 03:31 PM
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Depends how you reinstalled.
If you reinstalled using the manufacturers disk, you probably wiped out the backups at the same time. Generally, a recovery install using Windows installation media will retain all user account settings, including documents. Look in C:\Users Using Explorer\Computer If you can see a folder for your old username, or there are two folders for your current user name, you may be in luck. Under each user folder, ther should be a folder called documents. See if your files are in there. If not, you've probably lost your backups as well. I'm not a Vista expert though, so someone more familiar with Vista might be able to help. Post back some more details about your PC please, including: *What version of Vista (displayed at bottom of startup screen) *How many Hard Drives *How you Reinstalled Vista *Make and Model of Computer HTH, -------------------- Tom
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May 10 2008, 05:03 PM
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Thanks for your reply. I used the manufacturer reinstall cds so I guess all is gone. I will check the way you mention just in case. Have another question. What I am looking for is my iTunes and Limewire files. I did save it to the back up e drive but when I hooked it up to the computer after the reinstall, nothing was there anymore. I was told that iTunes makes it impossible to save the library. I have all my files on my iPod so how do I put that back onto iTunes on the new reinstalled OS on this computer.
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