[glossme]

A couple nights ago I turned off my computer for the night and the next morning when I restarted it, it walked me through set up like it was a new computer. When I went through the steps I found that I had lost everything, pictures, music etc..... when I looked on the desktop some of my old Icons where still there but when clicked on the info could not be found. PLEASE can anyone tell me why it would have done this???

[SUEOHIO]

Im not sure as to why that happened but if you can somehow remove the harddrive and have a usb sata/ide connector you might see if anything of importance can still be salvaged.Of course you have to have another working computer to use the connector with. If so i would put all of it on a cd/dvd so it isnt lost forever.Anything that cant afford to be lost should always be saved somewhere in case a computer does fail.

[Laz123]

If you can't do as advised you can use a third party program to retrieve lost data like PC Inspector http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?language=1

[flavallee]

Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2, 32 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+, x86 Family 15 Model 35 Stepping 2
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 958 Mb
Graphics Card: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series, 256 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 226401 MB, Free - 151775 MB; D: Total - 12039 MB, Free - 4779 MB;
Motherboard: MSI, AMETHYST-M
Antivirus: Norton Internet Security 2006, Updated: No, On-Demand Scanner: Enabled

Why hasn't Windows XP Professional SP2 been upgraded to SP3 - which was released in May 2008?

Without SP3 and the post-SP3 high priority updates, you're running that computer in a very outdated and insecure condition.

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Leaving photos and music and documents and other personal data in a computer and not backing it up to external media is asking for trouble.

If Windows crashes or the hard drive dies, you can usually kiss it good-bye.

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