Well, on Tuesday night, I went to bed, did nothing out of the ordinary, downloaded nothing. I wake up Wednesday morning, and I turn on my laptop, and I sit there for a second, and the screen stays blank after the F11 System Recovery screen. I don't have time to mess with it because I know that I would probably miss my bus. I get home, and I restart the laptop and turn it on again, then sit there for about 15 minutes. This screen comes up that says my System32 is missing. I kinda freak out, and I look for my System Recovery discs, and couldn't find them. My stepdad went into the garage, and found the one's for our old computer. I installed them, and am using it now. They were from 2004/2005. All my pictures/music/everything are gone. Were they deleted? What happened.
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You tell me what happened.
Originally posted by XUioXOriginally posted by roundb0xOriginally posted by who_cares973Comment
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Either you weren't keeping good care of your computer and someone was able to get into it, and destroy the folder entirely, or you have someone who doesn't like you and deliberately decided to destroy it. =/
That really sucks though.
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Nobody was in my room though, I sleep with my door locked, and then when I wake up, I go to take a shower.
EDIT: I've found backups of my music, pictures, and other things but like, what do I do. Do I have to reinstall my Internet Explorer and games and stuff?Last edited by NFD; 12-18-2008, 10:29 PM.
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If you did a system recovery, that should restore your computer back to how it was when you bought it; or in this case, back to how your old computer was when you bought it back in 2004/2005. Usually, new computers (assuming it's windows) come with Internet Explorer preinstalled. You'll have to do all the updates yourself - such as updating to IE 7, etc. You'll have nothing but what the factory installed programs/applications were. So yes, you'll have to redownload the games and any other programs and files that you had prior to the recovery.Comment
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This is a common windows problem. Chances are windows did not completely finish "unloading" before it issues the kill command to shut the power off. System 32 is not a folder you can just delete, that takes skill.
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Well all I did was select it and push delete, no skill needed.Originally posted by MalDONNote: I'm not good with writing or speaking my thoughts/ideas, what i have written makes perfect sense to me but to you im not so sure. I apologise in advance.
Some guy from some other forum.It sounds like love is an amazing feeling. I guess its like dinosaurs, they sound amazing but I'm never gonna see one.Comment
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It takes skill to delete the folder while you are running windows out of that specific folder.
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If you'd actually done that, you'd have realized that Windows will not let you simply delete the folder because the files are in use as you are trying to delete them.
As for NFD, I'm really sorry to hear. Sounds like you've had more than your fair share of computer troubles lately. I had a laptop that had worked perfectly fine for years, and the night before going out of country for a month, I turned it on to load a couple things on it and it wouldn't start. Unfortunately, it was somehow in such bad condition that I couldn't even reformat it. So, I know how you feel. At least you can still use your computer.Comment
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Well true it was an old system32 folder off a partition.Originally posted by Zageron
Being on-topic.
NFD you must have done something or gotten some virus 'cause system32 doesn't just magically self delete.Note: I'm not good with writing or speaking my thoughts/ideas, what i have written makes perfect sense to me but to you im not so sure. I apologise in advance.
Some guy from some other forum.It sounds like love is an amazing feeling. I guess its like dinosaurs, they sound amazing but I'm never gonna see one.Comment
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It just finished I think. Well, I DID download something called Second Life on Monday night, but it's completely deleted now. My laptop has a sticker that says:
Designed for Windows XP
Windows Vista Capable
Should I switch to Vista?
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Yeah, it was. Why shouldn't I switch? I hear so much positive stuff about it...
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