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System Restore cannot "fill up" your hard drive, but if it could, then
undoing the System Restore should correct this.
"eepp" <eepp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Interesting tale. My son & I were playing a game that although did not
> "explode" did freeze/lock the drive and had to perform a system restore.
Now
> my hard drive is full from the restore. Any ideas on how to get rid of
files
> that were probably "doubled" in the copying process?
>
> "Leythos" wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:46:00 +0200, Frans van Zelm wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > This is what happened to a friend of mine (no kidding, not to me).
> > >
> > > A music cd 'exploded' in the drive.
> >
> > That's really hard to believe, but I'll let it stand.
> >
> > > The system halted.
> >
> > The CD had nothing to do with the Halt.
> >
> > > On reboot (several times):
> > > - all her files were gone
> > > - all programs asked for installation disk (but start if message
ignored)
> > > - desktop icons were gone
> > > but
> > > - her husbands (other account) files are still there
> >
> > If only one users files are missing/corrupt, and the other users
programs
> > still work, including the programs they shared, then you've got a ghost
in
> > the machine.
> >
> > Even if her profile were trashed, the shared applications, had they been
> > deleted/corrupted, would not work for the other user.
> >
> > > Question 1:
> > > What happened?
> > > The cd broke, okay. But what happened to the files, desktop icons,
....?
> >
> > Hard to say, the CD breaking has nothing to do with the fault - it can't
> > physically hurt the hard drive, and removal of a CD in the middle of
> > playing, even forcing the drive open, won't damage files on the hard
drive.
> >
> > > Question 2:
> > > Is there salvation?
> > > As mentioned in the subject: she has no (recent) backup.
> > > I found a folder Found.004 with files numbered from 0000 to 9999, some
> > > containing fragments of her files.
> >
> > Found.004 indicates that there were three prior instances where problems
> > occurred with the drive/system. If the file fragments are numbered
0-9999
> > then there was a serious corruption of the drive, and it would not just
> > impact her files, it would be system wide.
> >
> > At this point you have two problems:
> >
> > 1) You need to replace the CD-Rom drive, if it spun a disk fast enough
to
> > frag it, then it needs replaced. If it damaged a disk in some other
means,
> > enough to frag it, then it still needs replaced.
> >
> > 2) Your drive is filled with found files because CHKDSK is detecting a
> > data problem, either crashed apps with opened files or bad drive media -
> > replace the hard drive and start over.
> >
> > While there are indications that we don't have the full story here, the
> > corrupt user profile and users files, without touching the other users
> > files is very suspicious. It's almost like it was done on purpose.
> >
> >
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