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Crash! Weird windows profile corruption

For some strange unknown reason my windows profile has decided that it doesn’t want to work anymore. Not only has it lost all of my windows settings but it has also deleted all of my files!

Major Stress out! Expletives have been uttered (actually yelled!) as i realise exactly what has been lost.

Music, movies, photos, work files, web sites, everything!

What to do!?

Well i have now spent 4 hours attempting to perform a data recovery using a plethora of both free and paid for data recovery products. Nothing has worked! Most will say they are free, spend 40 minutes performing a scan, find 120,000 files and then not let me recover them unless i pay a licence fee. WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME THAT BEFORE THE SCAN!!?? Or after another 40 minute scan and request to register for a free serial number i get told that the program is no longer supported and i must download a new program and perform yet another scan. Oh and it will cost me $120 for the privilege. ARGH! I THINK NOT!

At this very second i am 56% through a 5th system scan. This will be my last scan before i completely give up on the idea of ever recovering my files. In my very recent experience all that i have seen of data recovery software is a host of lies, tricks and time wasting.

I fear that i will simply have to bite the bullet and perform a system recovery which will completely wipe everything and start all over.

I wonder if Vista will help prevent this sort of frustration?

UPDATE: I think i have managed to rescue at least some of my files. This little free program called Undelete PLUS seems to be working.

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