A Windows restore point is for Windows system files. It's to keep your
system running if an update is buggy. It allows the system to be
restored to a prior state. It has nothing to do with your owner created
files like photos.
It would seem that you are responsible for your lost files. It appears
that you deleted them during the large cleanup. You made two mistakes.
1) One of the most important times to run a backup is just before you
initiate a large cleanup. You didn't do that.
2) Why would you run a disk cleaner on files you had just erased?
Possibly if it had some files with extremely sensitive personal or
financial data. But securely erasing image files??? Second mistake.
It sounds like you are poised for the third mistake. That would be
getting rid of CHKDSK which is a Windows system file. The most common
reason for CHKDSK to run at startup is when it appears that Windows may
have crashed. If the system crashes while it is writing a file that
file may well be corrupted. CHKDSK tries to find and fix such errors.
First, there may well be no errors. Second, they may not be fixable if
found. But they can't simply be ignored which is what would happen if
you removed CHKDSK. Actually, I have no idea if the system would even
boot if CHKDSK was not available when called upon. Maybe not. Leave it
alone.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/12/2015 7:45 PM, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi all, Brian here. Coming out of rare lurk mode for a moment.
I have just confirmed a suspicion I had for a while. I wanted to use an image
that I have uploaded to Zone 10, and discovered that it just could not be
found anywhere on my computer hard drive. OK, I thought, I have two
backup disks, I'll check there.
Well tough biccy for me. The first one was before the images were made,
and the second one is fairly recent, obviously AFTER the images vanished.
Can I go back to an earlier Windows restore point and save them to a CD,
then revert back to the current date for normal operations.
Well, no, I had deleted a huge number of files I wanted off my HDD, then
emptied the recycle bin, then cleared the now vacant space ( which would
include my lost files) with a very good disk cleaner program named ERASER.
They will be gone for sure.
I have set up a program called CHKDSK on this drive and periodically it tells
me on boot-up that it needs to check the disk and sometimes finds, and
corrects, mis-named / catalogued files.
I might get rid of it.
Some of the files are on Zone 10;
See from http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=9073
for about 6 files to the right.
And all of the E3 files on my Harbingers of Spring directory there.
All is not totally lost; I have found a way to download and save the maxed-out
files on Zone 10. But I feel gutted; many many images have been lost, and I
can't remember most of them.
Cheers, Brian
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