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Oh bugger, i think i've naffed up my computer (help)

Oh bugger, i think i've naffed up my computer (help)

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After running a program that scanned for doubled up files , i think i might've sent two of a particular double (with a yellow question mark in the icon) that may be quite important.

Is there a way of fixing this? will the recovery disk be enough for the repair?

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Depends on what you deleted.

What happens when you boot the computer up - error message, DOS screen, just beeps at you?

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Originally posted by Daemon Sin
Depends on what you deleted.

What happens when you boot the computer up - error message, DOS screen, just beeps at you?
Herein lies a problem.

I have GTS 250s in my PC and i got an adaptor with them when i bought them for the monitor plug, which i initially used. Since the house move, this adaptor has been lost (presumably thrown out by my nearest and dearest), and i get a blank screen until the password screen usually. The light on the monitor on button doesn't stop flashing until the password screen comes up...a shop where it may be possible to buy the connector is too far away for me to drive to before work...so i'm kinda banjaxed there till tomorrow. I know that if i threw in the recovery disc that i could see the information screen...i was just wondering if it was worth a bash before i drive to maplans tomorrow afternoon?


The file in question is still in the computer's trash can but it's sod all use there. I remember doing it and thinking there was something ify with the move, but then after making an avg scan for internet optamising it asked to reboot...it hasn't worked since.

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound

The file in question is still in the computer's trash can
right click on the recycle bin, then click restore.

nothing you put in the bin is deleted, only the pointer to the actual data gets moved there. the data itself stays untouched on the hd until you empty the recycle bin. and even then it doesn't clear the data, but simply gives the OS permission to write new data over it. which it might never do until you start running out of disk space.

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Originally posted by wormwood
right click on the recycle bin, then click restore.

nothing you put in the bin is deleted, only the pointer to the actual data gets moved there. the data itself stays untouched on the hd until you empty the recycle bin. and even then it doesn't clear the data, but simply gives the OS permission to write new data over it. which it might never do until you start running out of disk space.
The computer was on reboot and wouldn't start. . . hence the recycle bin was unaccessable...i've since sorted the problem.


Thanks for the help though.