John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Mon May 20 22:47:19 CDT 2013
I have no one to ask since no one involved has a clue - hence the problem in the first place. Sometimes the factory restore asks and sometimes they don't. I think with this consumer model that it probably didn't ask and just reformatted automagically to clean the mess up before reimaging. I just figure that the less I do on it the more possibility of something being able to be done when I get a possible solution. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:32 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Can a "factory restore" be undone? Was the drive reformatted? R -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: May 20, 2013 8:14 PM To: DBA-Tech Subject: [dba-Tech] Can a "factory restore" be undone? Hi All, I had a young mother call me in desperation (because she didn't call me in the first place ;-) Had an infected Compaq Windows Vista PC and boyfriend took care of the problem for her by restoring it to "factory condition". She's freaked out because she had 5 years of pictures of her kids on it that are gone now. (da) My first hope was that he just reinstalled Windows and the user profiles would be orphaned but alas, not true. Looks like a clean image has been written to the partition - I'm assuming that like most consumer PCs, the factory reset reimaged the hard drive's OS partition from the protected partition. It does have a protected "recovery" partition. Any suggestions on trying to recover her photos? _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com