Hello All.

I have a friend who sent me an e-mail stating:

A couple of weeks ago I was in Yahoo and all of a sudden my computer went crazy. Was able to restore from restoration CD but have lost all pics, files, all of it. I have a Gateway running ME. I would so much love to be able to bring all back that I lost and be able to do this myself. These pictures and such can never be replaced. One and onlyies. I know that you need more info from me, but if you could let me know exactly what it is you need to know so that I may try to do this would be helpful. At the time of this craziness my computer told me that Go Back, the registry, and some files were corrupt. System Restore was turned off, Needless to say I didn't reinstall Go Back, not to happy with it, but now have System Restore on. But couldn't find my files. I am in desperate need of some major help.

My question is this - since the OS was redone with the recovery CD, would that wipe all other data from the hard drive? Or, would he still be able to do a recovery of some of his files if he slaved this to a good drive /puter?

Any thoughts or info would be gratefully appreciated.

Frums