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From: undisclosed on 17 Jul 2010 03:07

Hi, can someone please help me with a huge issue for my notebook. There
was some sort of a problem with my HP laptop where I was unable to
access the internet but the internet icon was showing full conectivity.
In order to fix that little problem, we tried everything from system
restore many times to the last option: system recovery and hence got
into a biggg problem on October 30, 2009. Unfortunately we proceeded
with that last option without proper backup and now the laptop was as if
"brand new" since it repeated the first steps that were initiated when I
bought it. Since then, almost 9 months, I have not used it in hope of
recovering my files and pics but dont know how. Please let me know if I
have any hope of recovering my lost items and if so, then how. I am
really veryy worried, any help is much appreciated. Thank you so much!


--
nousheen
From: AJL on 17 Jul 2010 13:23
undisclosed wrote:

>There
>was some sort of a problem with my HP laptop where I was unable to
>access the internet...we tried...system recovery...and now the
> laptop was as if "brand new" ... I have not used it in hope of recovering
>my files and pics but dont know how. Please let me know if I
>have any hope of recovering my lost items...

Generally when you use the recovery disk to make the laptop 'factory
fresh' you lose everything (as the warnings that were given you when
you did it predicted). So IMO you are SOL...
From: Bob Villa on 17 Jul 2010 14:47
On Jul 17, 2:07 am, undisclosed wrote:
> Hi, can someone please help me with a huge issue for my notebook. There
> was some sort of a problem with my HP laptop where I was unable to
> access the internet but the internet icon was showing full conectivity.
> In order to fix that little problem, we tried everything from system
> restore many times to the last option: system recovery and hence got
> into a biggg problem on October 30, 2009. Unfortunately we proceeded
> with that last option without proper backup and now the laptop was as if
> "brand new" since it repeated the first steps that were initiated when I
> bought it. Since then, almost 9 months, I have not used it in hope of
> recovering my files and pics but dont know how. Please let me know if I
> have any hope of recovering my lost items and if so, then how. I am
> really veryy worried, any help is much appreciated. Thank you so much!
>
> --
> nousheen

If you did a quick format it leaves everything...and Windows
interprets it as empty. Some areas are over-written though. You
would still need to pay to recover your files no matter how it was
reinstalled although some re installs retain data on a separate
partition (the OS being on a different one).
You definitely need professional help.
From: Pen on 17 Jul 2010 14:55
On 7/17/2010 1:07 AM, undisclosed wrote:
> Hi, can someone please help me with a huge issue for my notebook. There
> was some sort of a problem with my HP laptop where I was unable to
> access the internet but the internet icon was showing full conectivity.
> In order to fix that little problem, we tried everything from system
> restore many times to the last option: system recovery and hence got
> into a biggg problem on October 30, 2009. Unfortunately we proceeded
> with that last option without proper backup and now the laptop was as if
> "brand new" since it repeated the first steps that were initiated when I
> bought it. Since then, almost 9 months, I have not used it in hope of
> recovering my files and pics but dont know how. Please let me know if I
> have any hope of recovering my lost items and if so, then how. I am
> really veryy worried, any help is much appreciated. Thank you so much!
>
>
You may be able to recover a few of your old files that may
not have been overwritten by the restore process. Here are a
few web sites that have some information.

http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/?ref=google_fr&gclid=CMXPw5-d86ICFQ4Tswod1mz8mA

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.HTML

http://www.aumha.org/a/recover.php
From: Richard Bonner on 18 Jul 2010 07:09
Pen (nospam(a)spam.none) wrote:

> On 7/17/2010 1:07 AM, undisclosed wrote:
> > There was some sort of a problem with my HP laptop where I was unable
> > to access the internet but the internet icon was showing full
> > conectivity.
> >
> > In order to fix that little problem, we tried everything from system
> > restore many times to the last option: system recovery Unfortunately
> > we proceeded with that last option without proper backup and now the
> > laptop was as if "brand new"
> >
> > Since then, almost 9 months, I have not used it in hope of
> > recovering my files and pics

*** A wise procedure.


> > Please let me know if I have any hope of recovering my lost items
> > and if so, then how.

> You may be able to recover a few of your old files that may
> not have been overwritten by the restore process. Here are a
> few web sites that have some information.

> http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/?ref=google_fr&gclid=CMXPw5-d86ICFQ4Tswod1mz8mA

> http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.HTML

> http://www.aumha.org/a/recover.php

If you get a recovery tool, you will need to burn it to a CD/DVD, or
place it on to a flashdrive (or floppy, if your system has a floppy
drive). Don't install it on the laptop because that may overwrite some
of what you want to recover.

Otherwise, I agree with pheeh.zero that you may have to take it to a
professional.

--
Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
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