Re: Empty Documents and Settings folder after missing or corrupt windows error

[Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SpinRite is worth a shot ... http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm    Costs
about $90, money back guaranteed.  I have used it to recover from similar
problems.

I suggest that you back up your work files to a server at work.  Use Stomp,
or use a simple Robocopy script.  At that point, having several iterations
becomes that admin's problem.

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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Diana Hicks <DianaH@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I had very bad luck about a week ago and still am suffering because of
> it.  I routinely backed up my work PC using Stomp BackUp MyPC 6.0 to an
> external hard drive every Tuesday.  It creates several .qic files on the
> external hard drive and since it is automatically scheduled, it
> overwrites the previous backup.  On 11/3, my backup was over half way
> finished when we received notification that the power company was going
> to cut power so we were advised to shutdown all our PCs and therefore I
> had to cancel my backup when only 4 of the 7 qic files were completed.
> Murphy's Law kicked me later the next day because I my PC would not boot
> up because of a missing or corrupt windows file error.  When we were
> finally able to get the PC to boot up, the document and settings folders
> were all empty for every user except the all users folder.  Because my
> backup did not complete the following day, I am unable to restore since
> it cannot complete the creation of the temporary catalog because the
> volume table is corrupt.  I'm suffering dearly from my flawed backup
> scheme (need a second hard drive so I can keep two backups) and now
> realize how important these files on really are.  Two years ago, I lost
> all my home PC information because my PC with the working hard drive and
> backup hard drive was stolen when my home was broken into.  As you can
> see, the odds have not been with me on PC data backups.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for recovering my documents and
> settings?
>
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> Diana Hicks
> Town of Jupiter
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