Help please
I carried out disk clean up and like a prat I did not know what I was doing.
So it seams I have lost most of my files in office I dont have xp disk as it
came all ready in my lap top.
Is there any way of getting them back???????????

It might be helpful if you told us exactly what your "disk clean up"
consisted of.

If you deleted files needed by Windows XP or Microsoft Office, you need the
installation CDs to get them back.

Your computer manufacturer may have placed a recovery partition on your
computer. What these typically do is erase your entire hard disk and
reinstall all the software that was installed at ther factory. Contact the
manufacturer to see if yiou have such a partition.

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Ted Zieglar
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"Chris Purse" <Chris Purse@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Help please
> I carried out disk clean up and like a prat I did not know what I was
doing.
> So it seams I have lost most of my files in office I dont have xp disk as
it
> came all ready in my lap top.
> Is there any way of getting them back???????????

Chris Purse wrote:
> I carried out disk clean up and like a prat I did not know what I was
> doing. So it seams I have lost most of my files in office I dont have
> xp disk as it came all ready in my lap top.
> Is there any way of getting them back???????????

I feel you have left out a lot of vital information here.

You 'carried out a disk cleanup'.. Does that mean you ran the Windows XP
Disk Cleanup utility?

You 'lost most of my files in office' means...? A disk Cleanup (the Windows
XP Utility) only deletes log/tmp files by default. It would not delete
Word/Excel/Powerpoint files. It *might* make office forget recently opened
files - but i don't recall that ever happening - and even then, the files
are not lost - just not as easily accessible.

Then you go on to say 'I don't have the XP disk.." --> which is more
confusing as why you would need that when you lost 'files in my office' and
Windows XP and Office are two different beasts.

Can you post back with more information on what you did to get in your
current situation and actually - what that current situation actually is?

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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"" wrote:
> Help please
> I carried out disk clean up and like a prat I did not know
> what I was doing.
> So it seams I have lost most of my files in office I dont have
> xp disk as it
> came all ready in my lap top.
> Is there any way of getting them back???????????

Hi,

It is really possible to restore lost files with data recovery tools.
These are utilities capable of restoring erased files. Among them the
most powerful IMHO are Active@ undelete and Uneraser (for DOS). This
tools worked perfectly for me so I’m pretty sure you will find them
useful indeed.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/

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