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Well, my computer completely screwed me by deleteing every file i have ever made. I had an excel sheet on there with the title 'DMCV1b' or something like that, I'm looking for the link of that. please help me

thanks

Well, my computer completely screwed me by deleteing every file i have ever made. I had an excel sheet on there with the title 'DMCV1b' or something like that, I'm looking for the link of that. please help me

thanks

1) stop using your computer as soon as you read this. Do not turn it off or close any running programs or windows. Disconnect the internet. Pause any programs that are running, including T.S.R.s (the little programs that show on the right of your taskbar if you are using "Windows"), and including your intenet browser - put it on "Work Offline";

2) go to another computer, computer store, etc. and find a copy of "undelete". Bring it home and run it on your computer (from disk without loading if that is possible - I am not computer savvy enough to know if it is, but depending on how important it is, you might want to call an expert);

3) don't get your hopes up.



You might consider calling a recovery expert, depending on how important this stuff is. If you want to recover it it is important that you minimize any possible changes to your hard drive's contents before your attempt, hence (1), above.

And in the future, back up your work, early and often.

Wishing you luck and sending out prayers.

Actually it sounds to me like you were upgrading "Windows" and it deleted all your old "My Documents" files. Bill Gates is either a moron or a cocksucking ass-hole. But we knew that. ;)

uhh, i doubt that is the problem.

I'm not on the same computer anyhow, I shut the computer down (laptop btw) and then restarted and when i logged in everything was gone, and it was restored to factory settings.

Anyhow, I just need this file, and I plan to keep back-up files.

uhh, i doubt that is the problem.

I'm not on the same computer anyhow, I shut the computer down (laptop btw) and then restarted and when i logged in everything was gone, and it was restored to factory settings.

Anyhow, I just need this file, and I plan to keep back-up files.

Cool then. Get undelete, or call a recovery specialist, depending on the value of this file to you.

the website said something about 'very detailed sheet' if you know anything tell me

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Help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I hope you didn't leave your laptop OS recovery disk in the CD drive.
Those things basically reinstall the OS totally ...

OK, are you using Windows XP professional or Home?
If you use Windows XP Pro, you might have logged on using a different Windows ID so everything looks reset.

Search your hard drive for any file with extension .xls.