notepad files lost in backup /recovery?

I'm hoping some clever person can help me find my files.

I have a NC10 and recently had probs with internet connections. After a few calls to samgung helpline they rebooted the whole system and cleaned it all. Before doing this we backed everything up to 'D' drive.

I had two travel journal notepad files on my desktop. I now can't find them in the file we made on D drive to save everything before the reboot/clean up thing they ran on the netbook. Other notepad files are there but not the desktop ones.

Anyone help me?!

 

1. If they are simple text files then the names should end in .txt. Did you try searching D: for *.txt?

2. Or is the backup that you created in some sort of archive format where you need to use the backup / recovery software to extract the files you want from the archive.

John

 

Thanks so much. I did a search with .txt like you suggested. It only found a couple of file relating to using bits of software etc.

I don't quite understand your second point (not very IT savvy as you can see). Everything was backed up to D drive and put in a folder I made called 'my documents' before samsung recovery was run.

A friend has told me about a programme called Active Undelete. I might try that perhaps?

 

Thanks. So you just copied the My Documents folder to D: Are you are that the missing files were in that folder before you did the backup? If they were someone else then they would not get copied.

John