Lost all my favorites (another computer problem)
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Hi guys, maybe one of you can help me with a little problem.

My laptop basically died last month (some of you may remember the thread, and thanks for your advice/help on that one). Anyway, I sent it back to toshiba, they sorted me out with a new motherboard and bios (?).

But when they sent it back to me they forgot to plug the wirelss antennae back into the board or somesuch. So off it went again.

Anyway shes running ok now, but the 'help and support' program in the start menu didnt work, when you click on it it says "Cannot run Help and Support, please run Help and Support.". Great.

Anyway, I moved all my crap to an external hard disc and ran my recovery disc which has sorted everything as far as I can tell.

Anyway, not sure why ive bored you all with that LOL?
In short, now Ive lost all my internet favorites, can I get these back somehow?

Joe

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Nope, not unless you backed it up

Just type sex / teen / amateur / virgin / webcam / etc into google, and you will probably find them again.

:)

^ Thats exactly what i did when i lost mine

(on the plus side you probably never used 7/8's of them anyway)

Once again TD gets me out of the shit!

Seriously though, I didnt specifically save my favorites, I just copied over 'My Documents', could they be in there somewhere??

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

There should be a "Favorites" folder on you C drive somewhere with them all in.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

I think Ill have lost it all then, only saved "my documents"

cheers anyway guys

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Doesn't sound good, you might want to try a free undelete program from cnet or one of those places...possible that the recovery disc just overwrote the original windows install.

For future reference though, keep a backup of Cocuments and Settings"YOURLOGINIDHERE". in there, you'll find My Doc's, Favorites, etc... all of which are associated with your profile.

1994 Rover Mini

if you just did a recovery then you can undo the recovery and put it back to your previous settings and copy across your internet favourites..............................if you did a complete re-install of windows then sorry to say that your fooked

ill get one of those programs and try that, will it need to know the exact location of the files im after? or will it let me browse the deleted stuff?

cheers guy,s getting this info back would literally be a godsend.

Joe

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Windows doesn't remove any data from the computer when you delete a file or restore, it just breaks the link to the file. The undelete programs available look for files with broken links and shows those as available to retrieve.

As minimad stated, if you did a reinstall from recovery, you're fooked.

I have a program from OnTrack, who does data recovery for my company, called EasyRecovery Professional I could send you. Used it many times to undelete a user's Temporary Internet history, to see where they've been Dirty little monkeys!

1994 Rover Mini