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    Gateway recovery partition question

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by joon82, Oct 8, 2008.

  1. joon82

    joon82 Notebook Consultant

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    My 6831 went crazy last 2 days. It stopped reading dvd drive and stopped reading my usb drives. Also I was getting errors everywhere.
    i could not restore to earlier dates, could not uninstall or install any programs.
    So I gathered my files that i need and moved to recovery partition(had about 4 gig storage left)
    After full recover to factory, I went into my recovery partition to move my files that I stored before recovering to factory.
    BUT I do not see my files anywhere. File size is still same but my file folder was not in the partition. I think folder named RECOVERY sucked all my files.
    I tried accessing Recovery folder but its giving me some warning with protected by PC Angel.
    Anybody know how to look into this RECOVERY folder?
     
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    ktr Notebook Consultant

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    Use command prompt...
     
    ktr, Oct 8, 2008
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    I did and it shows only 2 files
    autorun and info
     
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    What is the remaining file space of the recovery partition? Did it go back to the 4gb of free space? If so...then your data is gone.

    Did you do "DIR /ah"??? the files could be hidden.
     
    ktr, Oct 8, 2008
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