Problem with "System Restore"

Question

Hello everyone, this is my first topic I open community. My situation is this: Yesterday encedí PC and windows as soon entered a closed session, almost before I could anything. Today I turned on the computer again and again the same, so as not urgently needed using best thing to put your Windows CD and recover system I thought. Since I had no restore points created, the PC returned to the first day when Windows 8 was installed completely clean. I have a 120Gb hard drive I use to install the operating system and programs, and another 1TB drive I use as "My Documents" where there have everything. 

However 120Gb disk had some important documents and images (they were not porn, not the easy joke: p) now to restore the system are lost. The problem is that the disk continues to set the stored space I had before the refresh, it's like everything is installed but does not appear. I tried to install a program I had before and let me means that the programs are not but if they are taking up space. 

 

My queries are: 

 

Supposedly, if the programs do not exist, is not that space should have been removed? 

 

How do I recover all that was in that folder that was inside the folder of a program? 

 

regards

Answer 1

Hello and welcome to the forums and notice if in Windows Explorer you have a folder named with a name together before or after the old name. 

 

It's funny you mention it, usually when you do a restore to factory mode as if it were the first day of installation of Windows, it should have removed everything. 

 

What I advise you is that you do a CHKDSK, you go to Windows Explorer or the PC icon, you select the C: \ unfold the shortcut with the right mouse button, you go to Properties> Tools> Check Now, you select both options and give sign, waiting to perform the inspection of the hard disk will not be required or scheduled scanning start after a reboot or will do so at the time. 

 

There may be errors in the allocation table and therefore gives bad data, now if you want to test is to start a Linux LiveCD such. Ubuntu, which allows you botear and execute the operating system in test mode, not changing anything, and explore if maybe there is there, if so Linux will show it, because it matters little NTFS security. 

 

greetings;)

Answer 2

Hello friends, thanks for your answers. Finally reboot the PC to the disc space C "disappeared" and left with free space should be at all erased. I used some software to recover files and luckily regained pretty, and most important. Anyway, windows 8 angry I decided to format and install windows 7 again (only until I get bored again and install the W8: p) 

Thanks again for your responses.

Answer 3

Hello, glad you could solve the problem and thanks for comment. 

 

I solved the issue by and I close. 

 

greetings;)