A friend with XP Home used the SYSTEM RESTORE function to restore a slow operating system. In the process the friend lost all her Outlook emails and her My Docs folder. What is the best way ( if there is a way) to recover those files lost when she performed the Restore function?
with a system restore the files are gone. A System Restore will restore the hard drive just the way it came from the factory. This erases all the programs, emails, and documents that she had installed or anything she had saved.
Now if there are two types of system restore. System Restore function in XP can revert back to a time before the error and keep all the files saved. Another system restore reverts back to the first day that computer was used. In which it will erase everything. I think you and your friend got your System Restores mixed up.