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Help - Done System Diagnostic And HDD Got Wiped.

  • 29-08-2015 6:50pm
    #1
    SW98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭


    Hi, I decided to press F2 when my PC was booting so that I could do a system diagnostic because my HDD seemed to be acting strangely. When I done it nothing showed up so then I booted the PC up and everything was gone, the only thing left was my software and the desktop icons of the programs that I had previously installed. Can I get all that's lost back? Thanks for any replies.
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  • #2
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    How much space is showing as free on your hdd? Is there much of a discrepancy from before
    this incident?


  • #3
    SW98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭SW98


    mordeith wrote: »
    How much space is showing as free on your hdd? Is there much of a discrepancy from before
    this incident?

    I'm not to sure what I had before, but there's 821GB of 905GB.


  • #4
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    SW98 wrote: »
    I'm not to sure what I had before, but there's 821GB of 905GB.

    So around 80GB. I'd imagine you had more data than that. What is missing, images, music video?


  • #5
    SW98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭SW98


    mordeith wrote: »
    So around 80GB. I'd imagine you had more data than that. What is missing, images, music video?

    everything, downloads, documents, music, videos


  • #6
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    SW98 wrote: »
    everything, downloads, documents, music, videos

    Did you have your own specific login? Try going to C: Users and see what's listed there

    EDIT: What diagnostics did you run from the BIOS?


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  • #7
    SW98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭SW98


    mordeith wrote: »
    Did you have your own specific login? Try going to C: Users and see what's listed there

    EDIT: What diagnostics did you run from the BIOS?

    Ah ha, all my files are in C: users, but how to I get them back to this PC as they were before and is there a way of getting my start menu back the way it was so I dont have to manually add what I want again.


  • #8
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    SW98 wrote: »
    Ah ha, all my files are in C: users, but how to I get them back to this PC as they were before and is there a way of getting my start menu back the way it was so I dont have to manually add what I want again.

    You could try a System Restore.


  • #9
    SW98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭SW98


    mordeith wrote: »
    You could try a System Restore.

    OK??? Had to restart my PC for something and when it booted back up, it was exactly how it was before I done the diagnostic. All is good now, I was not very happy when it happened. Thanks very much for your help.


  • #10
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    SW98 wrote: »
    OK??? Had to restart my PC for something and when it booted back up, it was exactly how it was before I done the diagnostic. All is good now, I was not very happy when it happened. Thanks very much for your help.

    Cool. Glad it's sorted


  • #11
    whizbang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭whizbang


    Most likely your User profile data was corrupt, and windows started with a temporary profile.

    Probably sorted OK, but you should run disk check from windows.
    My Computer, Right Cick C:, Properties, Tools, Check Now.


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