When you installed the WinUndelete program to the same logical drive as the files you wanted to restore, parts of those files were probably overwritten by the files for the program. When Windows deletes a file, it doesn't actually erase it, but just marks the references to it in the file index as deleted, meaning that it can write new stuff over those spaces on the drive. However, the actual data is still intact. When you install new files, Windows will likely write them to the areas on the disk you just had the system declare deleted, which then destroys the previous data. That's probably why WinUndelete didn't work. You installed it on top of the data you were trying to save.
Actually not needing validation right now, but thank you.
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DXMachina - Feb 20, 2006 2:32:48 am PST #7142 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Zenkitty - Feb 20, 2006 5:21:20 am PST #7143 of 10003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Okay, DX, I get that. It looks like I may have frelled one of them, but at least one is still intact. What I don't get is, if I can't install this program onto my C drive, and it won't let me download it to a CD, where am I supposed to install it? The D drive is supposed to be reserved, right?
I should just give it up and download the damn videos again. It won't take any longer than figuring this out.
tommyrot - Feb 20, 2006 5:32:35 am PST #7144 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What I don't get is, if I can't install this program onto my C drive, and it won't let me download it to a CD, where am I supposed to install it? The D drive is supposed to be reserved, right?
It totally depends on your system. Your D drive might have Windows restore stuff, but if there's room on it, I don't see why you can't install it on that. (Or is your D drive a CD/DVD drive?)
Failing that, you'd need to add another drive to your system or get an external drive. A cheap USB flash drive might even work.
You could also re-partition your C drive to add another partition, but once you're trying to recover something, this option will also risk wiping out what you want to recover.
Zenkitty - Feb 20, 2006 6:02:31 am PST #7145 of 10003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Okay, yeah, the D drive is a partition of the hard disk. I could install it on that. When I tried to open the D drive before, the system wouldn't let me - flashed all sorts of warnings and I thought I'd kill my computer.
Perhaps I should back everything up before I start messing around. Considering I don't know what the frell I'm doing.
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2006 6:56:52 am PST #7146 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm scared by Windows Vista. How long before they're going to take my XP away?
esse - Feb 20, 2006 7:17:45 am PST #7147 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Dude, if it comes to that and the security chip thing, I'm switching to linux and not looking back.
tommyrot - Feb 20, 2006 7:19:00 am PST #7148 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Didn't MS only recently abandon support of NT 4.0?
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2006 7:25:22 am PST #7149 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Didn't MS only recently abandon support of NT 4.0?
I'm not as concerned with abandoning of support, but more of what OS I can put on my next computer. And the rate at which applications might move away.
I was happy once I got started on W2K. Happy enough that knowing my next machine would have XP bothered me. But I made peace with that, although I still long for the days of yore.
Vista brings back my XP apprehension, times a brazilian.
Sean K - Feb 20, 2006 9:16:13 am PST #7150 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Well, just that short listing of the Vista line has increased the likelihood that my next computer will be a Mac.
tommyrot - Feb 20, 2006 9:39:22 am PST #7151 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, a while back someone posted that Vista will not run on 50% of the PCs out there. I think that 50% figure refers to computers capable of running the Aero graphic thingie, and that you can run Vista just fine without Aero. (Aero requires a certain level of graphics card functionality.)
eta: I don't know much about Aero, but I think it's just translucent window crap, and other eye-candy, sorta' like OS X has had for a while