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From: kylec on 18 May 2010 14:22
I copied over a file on Windows XP Professional and was wondering if there is
a way to restore that file to it's previous state. System Restore will not
change it back as it says it picked nothing up to restore.

Thanks
From: Daave on 18 May 2010 14:45
kylec wrote:
> I copied over a file on Windows XP Professional and was wondering if
> there is a way to restore that file to it's previous state. System
> Restore will not change it back as it says it picked nothing up to
> restore.

Which file was copied?

From where to where?

Was anything deleted?

Was this a system file? If so, what exactly did you do and why?

Regarding System Restore, this page should help you with
troubleshooting:

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html


From: Db on 19 May 2010 11:21
system restore only restores
system files and not user
data/personal files.

however, if you had
sufficient unused disk
space,

then it may be that
the system didn't overwrite
that deleted file.

so what you might try to
use is a third party program
like "recuva"

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"kylec" <kylec(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I copied over a file on Windows XP Professional and was wondering if there
> is
> a way to restore that file to it's previous state. System Restore will not
> change it back as it says it picked nothing up to restore.
>
> Thanks

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