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by scowiley

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My HP Pavilion was low in memory and i removed games to free up space. I also defragged to a point where we ere at 15% open capacity. But in doing so, I lost all data and email. Is there a way to restore the data? Programs are still present such as Turbo Tax and QWuicken but no data

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by roobee81

How much did you really delete? Did you do a disk clean-up?

by thumbsup2

You said: "My HP Pavilion was low in memory and i removed games to free up space."

1) Memory is not the same thing as storage space on the hard drive.

2) How did you remove these things? Did you go to add/remove programs in the control panel, or did you simply delete the icons from the desktop/start menu, or did you just delete the folders they were installed into?

Then, you said: "I also defragged to a point where we ere at 15% open capacity."

1) Is that 15% free space left, or 15% used and 85% free space left?

2) Defrag doesn't free up space. It simply moves things around and reorganizes the space that you do have. However, if defrag was having problems getting through the disk, it could have initiated scandisk (probably asked you first) which MAY have found data in bad spots on the hard drive and moved it to "filechk.000" files, in which case, without professional help, it's lost. You may find the files on the hard drive, but they won't be readable.

Sounds to me as if you don't have a clue what it is that you're doing and have messed things up beyond recovery. Your story doesn't ring true. Be honest and tell us what you REALLY deleted and now want us to help you get it back.

by roobee81

Thumbs up for you!!!!! I feel a little proud of myself. I was kinda on the right track.

But, WHAT DID YOU DELETE?!?!?! Also, what size hard drive do you have? I have tons of games, music, pictures, and all sorts of programs and I still got 53% free.

by thumbsup2

Actually, I didn't see your post when I began typing mine. I had to walk away for a bit before I actually got the submit button pushed. I saw your post was there just as soon as the screen refreshed after posting.

:D

by older mycroft

This system warning usually starts to appear when your harddrive is chokka!

If the pagefile is fragmented and there is insufficient contigous free space for the system to juggle data transfers, you get this kind of message.

You must have been filling your harddrive AND ignoring system warnings to reach that stage.

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